Color Gate guide

How Color Gate works

Your ball rolls by itself down a three-lane road towards a series of gates. Each gate has one panel per lane. You can only pass through a panel that has the same colour as your ball; any other colour, or a dark wall, ends the run. Every gate you pass scores a point.

The game always guarantees one panel of your colour on every gate, and it is always reachable in time.

Controls

• Phone and tablet: tap the left half of the screen to move one lane left, the right half to move one lane right.
• Computer: ← → or A and D.
• Music: turn it on or off in the menu, or press M.

Prism rings and walls

• Prism rings are glowing arches across the whole road. Rolling through one changes your ball to the ring’s colour. They start appearing after the first few gates.
• Walls are dark panels marked with a red cross. They never let you through. They appear from around the seventh gate.

How the difficulty rises

• The road gets faster with every gate you pass, up to a top speed.
• Gates get closer together, so you have less time to change lanes.
• After 25 gates a fourth colour, green, joins cyan, pink and yellow.

Tips for passing more gates

• Look two items ahead. If a prism ring comes before the next gate, plan for the ring’s colour, not your current one.
• Move early. A lane change takes a moment, and at high speed that moment matters.
• Tap once per lane. Two quick taps move you two lanes.
• When nothing is coming, return to the middle lane: from there every lane is one move away.