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About This Game

We took tower defense and turned it on its head! Welcome to Rogue Maze, a Maze Defense game where the tiles are the towers. Plan out your maze, place directional tiles and special tiles, then sit back and watch as your underlings collapse from exhaustion!

Assume the role of office manager, casino mogul, or feudal lord as you force your subjects through increasingly long and complex mazes. Assault their senses with free smells and noise, or tempt them with succulent treats. But be wary: they might fight back! Workers carry battering rams to plow through your walls, meteors fall from the sky, and wayward chickens threaten to peck up your hard work. As their superior, throw flashbangs at people playing loud music, catapult the weary over walls, and distract wayward souls with hamburgers and/or ham to gain an advantage. Build fast to heat up your Heat Meter, but be careful; go too fast and you'll burn out!

Strategize by acquiring engineering tools, synergizing your power-ups, and creating scores of unique builds. Construct unique maze patterns to handle different enemy types, such as ADHD-guy (who gets bored walking on repetitive paths), or escaped unicorns that gallop quickly in a straight line but struggle on turns.

Features

• Grand Plans— Build mazes from a size of 20 to 200, weaving and winding to maximize the length of the level. 50+ different levels will test your mazing strategy against all shapes and sizes.

• Choose Your Boss and Get to Work!— The Office Manager, Feudal Lord, and Casino Magnate have custom tilesets, rules, and unlocks to help make your subjects suffer.

• Nothing is Ordinary— Are you sick of chain lightning and fireball and all that typical stuff? Us too. Soup up your maze with creative new Special Tiles, ranging from slip-n-slides and 5G towers to sticky movie theaters or boxing rings. Then, explore synergies between tiles: let's see what happens when a particularly stinky person enters a very hot room...

• Gadgets and Gizmos— Use your Gadgets to upgrade tiles, distract enemies with food, or even launch enemies across the map. Or, save them to buy permanent upgrades. Eight different gadgets present a variety of usages to help reorder your hand, organize the board, or hinder enemies.

• Rogue-Like Gameplay— Try out 40+ different Engineering Tools for new upgrades that help strategize your run. Watch as your smelly tiles level up their stink aura, your tasty treats drop below food safety standards, and your winding paths send enemies into bouts of confusion.

• Pause and Plan— Take your time and plan out your maze with myriad planning tools, including a path planner, color-blind friendly visualizer mode, and heaps of quality-of-life features.

• Keep on Your Toes— A variety of enemies test different aspects of your maze design: windiness, length of straights, and resilience against attack. Watch out for Showtime!, whose boombox gets so loud it threatens structural integrity, or the notorious Blemmy, a chest-headed pugilist from the late 1800s!

• Get in the Groove— Build quickly to increase your Heat Meter, then keep it up to become On Fire!, automatically upgrading all tiles you place. But be careful, place too fast and you'll Burn Out, stopping you from working more until you take some much-needed rest.

• Brand New Systems— Explore a unique between-level map system, using pentominoes to build your path. Race to the boss, or stay back to collect pickups and bonuses. Runs last 30 minutes on average.

• Difficulties and Ascendancies— Unlock tools, tiles, and difficulty levels as you progress through Rogue Maze. Higher Difficulties will challenge you to perfect your layouts, synergies, and gadget usage.

• Play the way that works best for you— Customizable visual tools, difficulty, and controls for a variety of player styles.

• Wide Range of Support— Whether you're on Windows/Mac/Steam Deck, and using a keyboard & mouse or a controller, we support as much as possible.

And featuring a brand-new original soundtrack by Joanna Wang, Andrew Page, and Baron Jan.