Minotaur’s Maze

MINOTAUR'S MAZE

You wake in a labyrinth that changes every time you enter it.

Somewhere in the dark, the Minotaur sleeps beside the only key out. Find him by the sound of his breathing. Turn off your flashlight, crouch, and move slowly. Once the key is in your hands, he wakes, and he hunts you by sound and sight.

Break his line of sight and hide in a barrel, but only if he didn't see you climb in. Lure him across a trapdoor to buy yourself thirty seconds. Crouch beneath the spike traps that tear through the corridors. Find the gate before he finds you.

Linger too long and something else wakes up: a red devil that never sleeps.

Twenty gates stand between you and daylight.

NEW IN 1.1: HUNT OR BE HUNTED

One player becomes the Minotaur. Everyone else survives with a revolver.

- The Minotaur hunts in first person and drops a survivor with a single blow

- He searches for a red crystal only he can see, to summon the red devil from a portal in the floor

- He gathers four torn map pieces to see where every survivor is hiding

- Survivors escape with the key, or shoot him down six times. Three bullets put him down, and every hit slows him

- Best of three rounds. 2 to 5 players online, or play solo with a bot teammate

FEATURES

- 20 stages, each a freshly generated labyrinth

- Four regions: The Iron Cells, The Drowned Passages, The Forgotten Crypts and The Ashen Crypts

- A Minotaur that hunts by sound and sight, and a red devil that stalks the deeper halls

- Stealth: crouch to move silently, kill your flashlight to stay unseen

- Hide in barrels, spring one trap per stage, find the map

- Spike traps: crouch to slip beneath them, or lure the Minotaur in to pin him

- A slot machine that turns stolen treasure into strange perks: invisibility, silent steps, a self revive, and a few you won't want

- A hidden portal to a sealed chamber holding a magic sword with two strikes

- Stage modifiers: Dying Flames, Creaky Floors, Keen Hearing

- Optional treasure you only keep if you escape

- 2 to 4 player online co-op: share the key, split up, revive downed teammates before the devil drags them to a cell, and find the key to break them out

- Text chat in co-op

- Full controller support

- Android touch controls

- Checkpoints, so you can continue your run later

- Rebindable controls, plus resolution, field of view, brightness and comfort settings

- An original soundtrack composed in AudioViz

- An ending worth escaping for

CONTROLS (KEYBOARD AND MOUSE)

WASD: Move

Mouse: Look

Shift: Sprint

Ctrl: Crouch (silent)

F: Flashlight

E: Interact / Hide

M: Map

T: Text chat

Left click: Shoot / Attack (Hunt or be Hunted)

Y: Taunt (Minotaur)

Esc: Pause

All keys can be rebound in Options.

CONTROLLER SUPPORT

Plug in an Xbox, PlayStation or most other controllers and play. Menus, gameplay and Options all work on a controller, with their own settings tab for look speed, stick deadzone and invert Y.

Left stick: Move

Right stick: Look

RB / R1: Sprint

LB / L1: Crouch

A / Cross: Interact / Hide

X / Square: Flashlight

Y / Triangle: Map

RT / R2: Shoot / Attack (Hunt or be Hunted)

D-pad Up: Taunt (Minotaur)

Start / Options: Pause

B / Circle: Back

MULTIPLAYER

One player hosts, and friends join by IP address. It works on the same home network straight away. Playing over the internet needs the host to forward UDP port 24567, or everyone to use a virtual LAN app such as ZeroTier, Proton VPN or Radmin VPN. Everyone must have the same version of the game.

Best played with headphones, in the dark.

A solo project by Matthew Menchinton

CircuitSpecter Studio | https://www.circuitspecter.org/

CREDITS

Minotaur and survivor models: original, made for the game.

Red devil and revolver by Quaternius (CC0).

Low Poly Potions by azrael68 (CC0).

Broken Stone Slab by Pavel Kutejnikov (CC0).

"Portal Animation Perfect Loop" by SonicVisual, "Fantasy Sword Lowpoly" by saifgharaibeh, "Flash Light" by Aafke van roon and "Slot Machine" by carlin.chu, all CC BY 4.0, from Sketchfab.