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A first-person 3D maze game with 100 generated levels: hedge, brick and real mirror mazes, locked gates and hidden keys, coins to collect, and a few haunted levels where something is watching.
Why first person
Most maze games are played from above, in third person, and feel more like puzzles. This one puts you inside the maze, where you can’t see over the hedge.
I have always wondered why mazes can’t be as complex as the ones in movies. In the real world a maze like that needs a lot of space and can never change. In a game, it can be as big and twisted as you like, and different every level.
Procedural generation
Every level is generated from a seed and a difficulty, so the mazes can be larger and more complicated than anything you could build for real, and no two are the same. They grow as you go.
Themed worlds
Each world has its own look and light. Hedge is where you start; brick and mirror are themes you unlock in the shop with the coins you collect along the way.
Mirror maze
The mirror world is an actual mirror maze. The walls reflect the maze around you, so corridors seem to carry on forever and you start to doubt which way is real.
Coins, keys & gates
Coins are scattered through every level and go into a saved wallet. Every third level has a locked gate that needs a hidden key first. Spend coins in the shop on themes and on helpers like a compass and hints.
Haunted levels
One level in four is haunted. It is night, it is foggy, and all you have is a flashlight. There are candles, strange sounds and knocking in the walls. And there is the Watcher: a figure that shows up down a corridor or creeps up behind you, and is gone the moment you look straight at it. Let it touch you and you are dragged back the way you came.
Platforms
Built in Unity, with builds for macOS, Windows, iPad and Android. Play with a mouse and keyboard, a gamepad, or touch controls on a tablet. Being inside the maze is the whole point, so virtual reality is the next step.
The trailer
Short on time? The 15-second cut.
A first-person 3D maze game. Instead of looking down on a maze from above, you walk through it: hedge, brick and mirror mazes, locked gates and hidden keys, coins to collect and a portal arch to find at the end of every level.
Not yet. There are builds for macOS, Windows, iPad and Android, but no public release so far. Email me@yashmathur.com and I will let you know when it launches.
macOS, Windows, iPad and Android, with a virtual reality version coming soon. It plays with a mouse and keyboard, a gamepad, or touch controls on a tablet.
100 levels across three difficulties: 34 easy, 33 medium and 33 hard. Mazes get bigger as you go, from 9 by 9 cells on the first levels up to 21 by 21 on the hardest.
Yes. Every level is generated from a seed and a difficulty, so mazes can be larger and more complicated than anything you could build for real, and each one is different.
It has a mirror world: an actual mirror maze with real reflections, where the walls reflect the maze around you and corridors seem to carry on forever.
Mostly no, but one level in four is haunted. Those play at night with a flashlight, strange sounds and the Watcher, a figure that vanishes the moment you look straight at it.
Yes, VR is coming soon. Being inside the maze in first person is what the game is built around, which makes virtual reality the natural next step.
The Garden Maze isn’t out yet. Drop me a line and I’ll write back the day it launches.