First
One route, no loops
The maze is carved by a backtracker and never joined back up, so between any two cells there is exactly one path. That is what makes a wrong turn wrong: it cannot come out somewhere useful.
All games
Amazein. One way through.
Amazein. One way through.
Eventually.
A maze in three dimensions, drawn fresh every time at whatever size you set it to. Exactly one route runs from the corner you start in to the one you're aiming at, and every other turn is a blind alley that was made longer on purpose.
How it works
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Pick a direction
Arrow keys on a keyboard, a swipe on a phone, or an on-screen joystick if you'd rather. A key press moves you one cell; a swipe runs you on until something stops you.
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Head for the far corner
You start in the top-left cell and the exit is in the bottom-right one. Twenty-one cells are on screen at a time, whatever size the maze is; the rest of it is the minimap's problem.
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Take the wrong turns
There are no loops, so a branch off the route is always a dead end and never a shortcut. You will not know which is which until you have walked to the end of it.
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Pick things up
Coins are lying around the maze and count towards a running total. Bombs are rarer, and they are the only thing in the game that will get you through a wall.
The dead ends
Then
Made worse on purpose
Once it's carved, the generator goes back over the dead ends and extends them, spurs new ones off the junctions, and then lengthens what's left a second time. None of that is decoration.
What's in there
- Coins
- Scattered through every maze, about three for every four cells of its width. They're points, and the total carries on across mazes.
- Bombs
- At least three per maze and you can carry three. One takes out a wall you're standing beside, which is the only way to make a route that wasn't there.
- The hint
- Lights the shortest way out from wherever you're standing, in blue. There is no penalty for it. Feeling bad about it is left to you.
- Breadcrumbs
- A glowing trail on the floor behind you, so at least you can see which of the wrong turns you have already taken.
- The preview
- Before each maze the camera flies to the exit and sweeps back to your corner. It can draw the whole answer on the way, if you ask it to.
- Records
- Fewest steps and best time, kept separately for each maze size, plus the last ten runs and every coin you've ever picked up.
- Size
- Any odd number of cells from 21 to 101. Twenty-one is exactly what fits on screen; 101 is ten thousand cells, and you still see four hundred of them at a time.
- Ball or duck
- Two things to be. You choose once in Settings and then never think about it again.
Get it
Amazein runs in a browser tab, free, and asks you for nothing at all.
No account, no advertising, nothing to buy. Your settings, your best times and your coin total sit in the browser you played in and go no further. Reach the exit and it draws you another one, which will be different and no more helpful.
- Genre
- Maze
- Platforms
- Web
- Price
- Free