Look away. It rewrites.

Mazespace is a free first-person maze for the browser. The world only holds its shape where you can see it, so the corridor behind you is not the one you walked down. Everyone on a seed shares one Chart and sees each other’s progress, but you run every maze yourself.

Invite-only playtest. Ask for a code in the Discord.

Go to mazespace.xyz Ask for an invite on Discord

A long, dark corridor in Mazespace whose walls are breaking into pale fragments as they rewrite, with the small light the player carries in the lower right. — Playtest build. A corridor rewriting at the edge of what you can see.

How a run works

A seed is one world, and the Chart is its map: a cluster of mazes, called Sectors, joined like a constellation. You start at the Source and enter any Sector that glows. Inside, the only goal is the exit, a pale-green light you can only see from close by.

The Chart is public. You see every Sector someone else has cleared, every Checkpoint they’ve switched on and every mechanism they’ve found, marked as not yours. It shows you where others have been, but you still have to find each exit.

Clear a Sector next to a Checkpoint and it saves your place and gives you a clue or a tool. Clues stay in your Field notes, so you can read them again. A few Sectors hide mechanisms off the main route, and the Edge, the last gate, stays shut until all of them are in. Whoever gets through it first takes the seed, and a new one starts.

The Chart in Mazespace: named Sectors joined like a constellation around the Source, with explored Sectors in gold, two Checkpoints as blue diamonds, the next reachable Sectors ringed in white, and a side panel for the selected Sector and your tools. — The Chart part-way through a seed. Gold is where you’ve been, the blue diamonds are Checkpoints, and a white ring means you can go there.

Inside a Sector

Look: Space holds where you look. Turn away and the walls you can’t see are free to rewrite.
Pin: You carry a few pins. A pin holds the space around it, and nothing rewrites it. Gold landmarks hold on their own.
The Sweep: In the harder Sectors, a wave of Null crosses the maze after a warning and rewrites everything it passes. If it catches you outside pinned space, you go back to your last Checkpoint.
The Unwatched: A crimson mass that moves only while you aren’t looking at it. Up close you can hold it with your eyes, though not for long. Pinned space and landmarks undo it.

Four colours mean the same thing everywhere: gold is safe and yours, crimson is a threat, blue is a Checkpoint, and pale green is only ever the exit.

A landmark shaped like a small tree with gold leaves, standing on a square of gold-edged floor between dark walls. — A landmark. Its floor is gold, so nothing rewrites it.

The Unwatched, a spiked crimson mass, filling a dark corridor a few steps ahead. — The Unwatched, a few steps away.

A corridor torn into pale, flickering blocks as the Sweep passes through it. — The Sweep passing through a corridor.

The exit gate: a stone frame filled with pale-green light, standing on a glowing ring on the floor. — An exit gate, which you only see from close by.

The playtest

For now Mazespace is open to a small group by invite. If you’d like a code, ask in the Mazespace channels on the Discord. Bugs can go in through the report button in the game or in the Mazespace bug forum on the Discord, whichever is easier.

It needs a desktop with Chrome or Edge, because the maze is drawn with WebGPU. There’s nothing to install, and phones aren’t supported yet.

It’s free. If paid extras ever come, none of them will help anyone on an official seed.

Want in?

Invite codes, questions and bug reports all go through the Discord.

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