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98%57098% positive reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive across 570 reviews·Platformer · Side Scroller
—The Colorful Creature is difficult platformer with puzzle color mechanics. Play over 350 levels with diverse gameplay that have many items and hazards, in-game level editor, local multiplayer, endless run, customizable skins & hats, steam workshop and more!
- Overhaul to the progression and steam achievements - Improved controller support - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT!
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Play over 350 levels with diverse gameplay that have various items, blocks and hazards, one of the items change gravity and player speed, give you an ability to jump higher, teleport from one place to the other and etc!

The Level Editor let's you build levels and it has over 110 placeable blocks and items! Other main features in the level editor are saving/loading multiple levels, enabling fog, changing music, applying narrator text, and play/build mode. There are litetally millions of different level combinations and hours of fun! Finally, you can also put your levels on the Steam Workshop!

Local Multiplayer can be played with 2, 3 or 4 players! All of the players can customize their look with unlocked skins and hats, and can change controls with 4 presets. Local Multiplayer currently offers two gamemodes, Survival and Race, but we plan adding more, all gamemodes are compatible with all players.

If you want to play through the endless queue of hand-crafted levels, try this gamemode! Three gamemodes are available for Endless Run, those gamemodes are Normal, Old School and Custom Endless Run.

You can customize your character with skins and hats. Skins are obtained by doing various tasks and most hats are obtained at the hat merchant shop!

The Colorful Creature has been open sourced, making it easier than ever to modify code and improve the game further! Consider helping by going to TheColorfulCreature repo on GitHub!

This game has a lot more features than that! We are hoping to add more and you to enjoy our game!
If you like difficult platformers, puzzle games to some extent, like to make your own levels in games, competing in leaderboards, speedrunning, then this game is for you!
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