Complements Unblocked
Like colors stick, opposite colors shatter, and the pile keeps rising toward the line.
What is Complements?
Complements is a physics puzzle about opposite colors. You launch round gems into a well, where same-colored gems bond into clusters and touching a color's complement, such as red against green, breaks the whole cluster. The goal is to clear every gem before the pile stays above the top line too long.
- Category
- Puzzle Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Best on desktop, playable on touch
- Input
- Mouse, Keyboard, Touch
- Made by
- Frank Force
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Complements takes a lesson from the art class color wheel and turns it into a physics toy. Round gems tumble into a tall well and settle into a wobbly heap. Gems of one color cling to each other, and the instant a cluster touches its opposite color, the entire connected group bursts. Your launcher sits at the top, firing in new gems to build those clusters and set them off. Frank Force made this version in his LittleJS engine, porting an earlier C++ game of his, and it plays unblocked in the browser.
The Color Wheel Rules
Three pairs of opposites drive every break:
- Red and green
- Orange and blue
- Yellow and purple
Black and white form a fourth, special pair. A white gem breaks anything it touches. A black gem is a stubborn blocker that only goes when a break reaches it. A clear gem absorbs the color of whatever it touches first, then can shatter that color’s opposite. Clear and black gems turn up in the launcher regularly. If you forget the pairings, the ABOUT screen on the title menu lists them.
Pick PLAY and a difficulty, and the well fills with 20, 40, 60 or 80 gems. A gray line marks the danger zone near the top, and a dotted guide shows where your next gem will fly.
Holding the fire button makes the loaded gem swell and shrink in a loop. Let go at the size you want: small gems slip into narrow gaps, while large ones shove the pile and touch more neighbors.
The danger line slowly lowers as the round goes on. Leave a gem above it for too long and the warning bar fills, ending the game. Clear every gem and your time is recorded.
Complements controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aim the gem launcher | Left and Right arrows (turn off MOUSE AIM in OPTIONS) | Move the pointer | Drag a finger |
| Charge and release a gem | Hold Space or Down arrow, release to fire | Hold the left button, release to fire | Hold, then lift your finger |
| Jolt the pile | Up arrow or W | Right click | — |
| Pause the game | Esc | — | — |
Playing the Pile
The whole trick is patience. Firing a blue gem straight at the first orange one you see only clears a small group. Wait, and add a few more oranges to that cluster first, and the same break wipes out a big chunk of the well.
Clear gems are your most valuable shots. Land one on the largest group on the board and it becomes that color, ready to connect to a neighboring opposite.
Breaks also charge the shake meter. A shake throws every gem sideways and upward, alternating direction with each use and spending part of the meter. It is the best emergency tool when the heap pokes above the line, because a flatter pile is a lower pile.
Glance at the next gem in the launcher before every shot. Aim the current one so that the next has a useful partner waiting.
The OPTIONS menu lets you turn the aiming guide, screen shake and mouse aim on or off and set the volume.
A Physics Puzzle Unlike the Rest
Most color matchers on FreezeNova sit on tidy grids. Here gems bounce, roll and settle in messy, unpredictable ways, which keeps every round fresh. For a tidier color challenge, try Color Tile Match, or aim and shoot with more precision in Bubble Pop Shooter.
Complements: questions players ask
How do you win at Complements?
Empty the well completely. There is no point total; the game records how long you took, and your fastest clear for each difficulty is shown on the difficulty menu.
Which difficulty should I start on?
EASY begins with 20 gems in the well, which is plenty for learning the color pairs. MEDIUM, HARD and INSANE start with 40, 60 and 80, so the pile is close to the line from the very first shot.
What is the black gem for?
Black gems are blockers. They do not bond or break on their own and disappear only when a break spreads into them. Treat them as obstacles to clear by shattering whatever touches them.
Can I play Complements on a phone?
You can aim by dragging and fire by lifting your finger, but there is no touch button for shaking the pile. A mouse or keyboard gives you every control.
Credits and license
Complements was created by Frank Force and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/KilledByAPixel (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (gems and board drawn in code; sound effects generated in code)
- Our changes: We gathered the engine and helper scripts into a single folder beside the game page. Nothing about the gameplay was changed.
