Monochroma
Side-scrolling puzzle-platformer where carrying your injured brother limits your movement
Nowhere Studios · Released May 28, 2014
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 75% of 511
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 31, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 10 years ago
- Sep 28, 2016
Metacritic: 55/100 (critic reviews)
What is Monochroma?
In this single-player, side-scrolling puzzle-platformer, you solve puzzles and navigate obstacles in a dystopian world.
For you if...
- +you prefer short adventures with a dark, somber mood
Not for you if...
- −you want action without puzzles or carefully timed jumps
What players say
75% of 511 reviews are positive
Players praise the mostly grayscale art, red accents, soundtrack, and physics puzzles. They most often criticize slow, clunky controls and frustrating trial-and-error platforming.
Screenshots and trailer
Monochroma system requirements
Minimum: 2 GB RAM, 5 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Monochroma?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- XP or later
- Processor
- 2GHz or better
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
Recommended
- OS
- XP or later
- Processor
- Core 2 Duo 2GHz or better
- Graphics
- 512 MB Video Card or better
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
- Notes
- Core 2 Duo 2GHz or better
Does Monochroma have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Monochroma run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 5
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.
Does Monochroma use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Indie
- Adventure
- Platformer
- Puzzle
- Atmospheric
- Puzzle Platformer
- Dystopian
- 2.5D
- Side Scroller
- Singleplayer
- Mystery
- Horror
- Difficult
- Short
- Dark
Recent updates
- Jul 15, 2016 · The biggest and hopefully the last update for Monochroma
- Jul 15, 2016 · The biggest and hopefully the last update for Monochroma
1 DLC available.
