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Ultimaze

Ultimaze is a tile-based puzzle game about navigating small labyrinths.

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June 28, 2022
4 years and 35 days ago
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About the Game

Ultimaze is a tile-based puzzle game about navigating small labyrinths.

Move around and interact with objects to reach the goal in 200 single-screen levels that steadily introduce new gameplay features. As the focus is puzzle solving, you can undo your moves at will.

The game isn't based around a single gimmick, but rather features a wide variety of different tiles and game mechanics that mix together to create varied puzzles to solve.

Some of the game mechanics include:

  • Pressing switches to alter tiles
  • Carrying and utilizing items
  • Pushing crates
  • Sliding on ice
  • Traversing lava in various ways
  • Using magnets to push and pull tiles
  • Jumping from springboards

Some of the later levels feature increasingly odd and advanced scenarios:

  • Manipulating a turn timer that alters objects after ticking down to zero
  • Moving around diagonally temporarily
  • Carrying an extended amount of items and duplicating them
  • Destroying yourself by moving into an infinite loop to respawn to a spawnpoint
  • Creating and loading save states of a level to your advantage

Ultimaze also contains a simple level editor tool and a block guide that contains a tutorial levels for each tile type.