The player, as Hue, must restore the world's coloration by rescuing Pigments and defeating the Necrolight bosses.The player collects "dust" across a series of nine stages per world, with each milestone of 20 freeing a new Pigment and restoring one of five colors to the world. Each world also has four challenge levels and a boss fight at the end. The game has a choice of difficulty levels, the highest of which removes checkpointing and adds more hazards besides.