Current version:PlayStation 5
Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Greg Lobanov. It centers on puzzle, maze, or device solving, area and route exploration, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.

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8.8 / 10
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About this game

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on puzzle, maze, or device solving, area and route exploration, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

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8.8 / 10PlayStation 5

Painting makes exploration and self-expression inseparable.

Chicory does not require artistic confidence before it offers meaningful play. Colour changes routes and objects as well as the appearance of the world, so learning to use the brush serves both exploration and personal expression. New abilities make earlier spaces worth reconsidering. Its emotional questions therefore grow out of what the player actually does, supported by music that can accommodate uncertainty as well as warmth. Graduated hints make progress approachable without making every discovery automatic. On PS5, stick and touchpad input provide alternatives, but careful drawing still takes practice. A launch review also recorded a controller-disconnection crash; this assessment does not claim that historical issue persists in every current build. The recommendation rests on coherence, not on combat volume or graphical scale.

Strengths

  • Painting gives exploration a distinctive logic.
  • Helpful progression and hint structure.

Weaknesses

  • Precise controller drawing needs practice.
  • A dated PS5 disconnect-crash report.

Who it is for: Players interested in creative exploration and emotional storytelling.

Play notes: Includes anxiety and self-doubt; technical scope is the cited 2021 PS5 evidence.

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New abilities and graduated hints sustain purposeful progression.

Reviewed8.8 / 10Not provided
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Painting coherently joins expression and environmental problem solving.

Reviewed9.0 / 10Not provided
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Artistic activity and sound give emotional themes tangible form.

Reviewed9.3 / 10Not provided
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Input options help, but precise controller drawing needs practice.

Reviewed7.4 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Publisher
Finji
Release date
Jun 10, 2021
Platforms
PlayStation 5
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
Third Person3D GraphicsSlow BurnInvestigationFantasyLinear LevelsSolo-friendlyExplorationPuzzle SolvingMain Story 10–20 HoursStory-driven
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single playerCo-opMultiplayer
Perspectives
Top-down

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