Chroma Lab
Released Aug 2017
Chroma Lab is a VR particle physics sandbox. Surround yourself with hundreds of thousands of colorful particles that stick together like a fluid which you can interact with using a variety of tools.
95% positive · 326 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $4.99
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Evaluation
Chroma Lab is a VR particle physics sandbox that launched on August 22, 2017. After release, the developer shipped a small feature update on August 1, 2018 (adding a new particle shader, increased particle count, and other minor improvements), followed by a bug fix on January 2, 2019 to address a memory crash caused by a SteamVR compatibility issue. That January 2, 2019 post is the last recorded communication from the developer. No further updates, announcements, or roadmaps have been posted since then. There is no unreleased DLC, no announced future content, and no ongoing update cadence — the developer's activity effectively concluded after routine post-launch maintenance. The game appears to have shipped as a complete, self-contained experience with no plans for continued content additions.
Evidence
Chroma Lab officially released after nearly a year of development.
Bug fix update addressing a memory crash caused by a SteamVR compatibility issue. This is the last known developer communication.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Sean Tann
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
A colorful fluid simulation to play with in VR.
Chroma Lab is based around a high performance, custom particle physics engine that utilises the vast computing power of modern GPUs to calculate billions of individual forces per second between the particles, necessary for them to interact with each other and behave like a fluid.
There is a variety of tools to interact with the particles as well as a well featured options menu that allows you to customise the visuals, physics and save/load scenes.
Chroma Lab is based around a high performance, custom particle physics engine that utilises the vast computing power of modern GPUs to calculate billions of individual forces per second between the particles, necessary for them to interact with each other and behave like a fluid.
There is a variety of tools to interact with the particles as well as a well featured options menu that allows you to customise the visuals, physics and save/load scenes.
Key features
- Beautiful, psychedelic visuals
- Particles react to your music (any external music player is compatible, may not work with Bluetooth headphones)
- Tools to pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint the particles
- Placeable force spheres which can also teleport the particles between one another
- Save and load the particles and settings, included are a few presets to get started with
- Adjustable physics settings to change how the particles behave
- Multiple different particle shaders, color pallets and other graphics settings to choose from
- Throw blobs into orbit and create black holes
- Optional gravity and "lava lamp" modes
- Freeze the simulation or slow time to a crawl
- Great as first experience for people new to VR - intuitive controls and presets can be chosen outside of VR
- MixCast support for easy, high quality mixed reality
- Native Oculus SDK support for Rift and Touch users
- Number of particles can be automatically determined based on computer speed or manually adjusted
- Scale and bounding walls can be adjusted allowing Chroma Lab to be played from sitting to room scale
Beta tester quotes after playing Chroma Lab
- "okay - gorgeous, just gorgeous! love how well it performs :)"
- "I really need to sleep now, even if my dreams will not offer me the delight just spent in Chroma Lab."
- "it is absolutely fantastic and probably one of the most beautiful experience I have had in VR so far"
- "Wow. WOW I think I'm in love."
- "Ok, holy **** man. Congratulations, you've made the trippiest game I've ever played"
- "Wow. Just... Wow... I might have just found my new favourite thing in VR"
- "Well, I went in expecting to just have a quick go before bed. An hour disappeared. That was mesmerizing! Beautifully smooth and so many options!"
- "Holy **** man this is awesome!! I played for like an hour straight!!"
- "congrats on creating a very compelling and polished piece of software!"
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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