A Tale of Colours is a nonlinear platform game with heavy emphasis on exploration. In this game you will find:

- A huge world filled with peculiar characters
- Colours and retro pixel graphics
- Powerups and Secret Fighting Techniques
- 16 unique treasures to find
- Gnome legends
- Gnome contraptions
- Gnome guys
- Giant Gnome Statues (just one, actually)
- Coin collecting
- Recycle beams (for game erasing purposes)
- Badly Drawn Stickmen posing as Almighty Spirits
- Mysterious, ubiquitous Save Point Men