Maze Games Online: Spin, Tilt, Escape Monsters and Dig Your Own Way

Maze games are one of the oldest kinds of puzzle, and browser versions have taken them in many directions. Some are calm puzzles where you tilt or spin the maze. Others add monsters, a step limit or bombs. This guide covers the maze games on PlayKovo and some techniques that help in all of them.

Calm maze puzzles

Spin Maze

Spin Maze turns the maze instead of the ball. You spin the maze and the ball rolls toward the exit. There are square, round and triangle mazes. On mobile, touch the screen and drag in a circle around the maze to spin it. Small turns give you much more control than large swings.

Marble Maze

Marble Maze has you tilt your way through a rolling marble maze without falling off the edge. You can use the arrow keys, drag with the mouse or use tilt-style touch controls. Go slowly near edges. The marble keeps its speed, so a fast run into a corner often ends over the side.

Seven Down

Seven Down is a maze with a twist: you roll a die across the board, and opposite faces always add up to seven, so you must work out which number is touching the ground. It has puzzle, chase and maze modes.

Mazes with a step limit

13 Steps to Escape is a pixel art puzzle: reach the flag, but you only have 13 steps before you respawn. You move with WASD, ZQSD or the arrow keys, undo with E and restart with R. Plan the whole route before moving. Undo is there for mistakes, not as a way to search. It is listed for desktop.

Mazes with monsters

Escape the Monster

Escape the Monster has fifty dark maze floors and four different monsters. You move with the arrow keys or WASD (ZQSD on AZERTY keyboards), or swipe anywhere on mobile. Learn how each monster moves. Once you know its pattern, you can use corners and dead ends to stay out of its path.

Mazeren

Mazeren is a top-down maze with combat. You escape three dark mazes, dash with Space and fire arrows with the mouse at enemies hiding in the shadows. Desktop only.

Exit the Backrooms: Level Fun!

Exit the Backrooms: Level Fun! is a first-person maze. You sneak through an endless party-themed maze to find the exit, with WASD and the mouse or touch controls.

Mazes you change yourself

• BOMBAMAN 3D: plant bombs to clear the maze, defeat monsters and find the exit. Arrow keys or WASD move, and Space or a tap places a bomb.
• Digger: a retro mining game where you dig your own tunnels, dodge falling rocks and collect gold. Arrow keys, WASD or ZQSD move and dig.

In Digger-style games, rocks fall when you dig away what is under them. Never dig directly under a rock and stay below it.

Techniques that help in any maze

1. Look before you move. In mazes you can see in full, trace the route with your eyes from the exit back to the start. Working backward is often faster.
2. Follow one wall. In a simple maze with no loops, keeping one hand on the same wall always gets you out. It is not the shortest route, but it works when you are lost.
3. Mark dead ends in your head. Once a branch is a dead end, don't go back into it.
4. In monster mazes, learn the rules first. Watch how a monster reacts to you before trying to sneak past it.
5. Slow down in physics mazes. In tilt and spin games, speed is the main cause of failure.

Quick guide

More puzzle games are on the PlayKovo games page.