Chroma Lab

Chroma Lab

Sean Tann · 2017 · Simulation, Indie, Casual, VR, Physics

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Very Positive96% · 304
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About Chroma Lab

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.


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!"

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Sep 8, 2025
This is one of those VR experiences that I'd recommend everyone try. It's super mesmerizing. I only wish that I could experience this with Quest 3's passthrough API over Link, though you can sort of do this with Virtual Desktop, just without proper composition or scene understanding. I would love to be able to see the particles collide with the walls and objects in my room. It's super affordable and you can do so much with this beautiful particle physics sandbox.
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Not recommended Mar 30, 2026
Game is broken. Was hella excited to play while stoned but the controllers in the start menu are stuck to the floor. I have a meta quest 3. Instant refund
Not recommended Jun 9, 2025
I like the game but i use a quest 3s with virtual desktop and most controls work fine! but other don't if this game updates to get a better quest layout i will instabuy but for now its a refund.
Recommended Mar 30, 2025
All my friends like to play this game, it's weird and fun!
Recommended Feb 15, 2025
i'm about to orb
Recommended Jan 7, 2025
Easily one of the coolest VR experiences out there. Not much to do but it's visually really interesting and cool and it syncs to music. Highly recommend to anyone with a VR who wants a new experience.

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