Blast Maze

Overview

Blast Maze is a bomb-planting arena game played on a lattice of indestructible stone pillars stuffed with blastable crates. You start with a single weak charge and three lives; everything else you earn by demolition. Bombs tick for two seconds, then erupt in a cross that runs until it hits stone — the flame stops at the first crate in each direction, destroying it and sometimes revealing what it hid: a fire power-up that extends future blasts, a bomb power-up that raises your carry cap, a speed power-up, or the golden exit gate itself. Rivals drift through the lanes, and from level three a pink chaser actively hunts you. Flame kills them, but flame also kills you, and bombs chain — any charge caught in a blast detonates immediately, turning the maze into a fuse network you design on the fly. The gate only accepts you once the last rival is down; eight levels of denser, faster opposition stand between you and the title.

How to Play

Press Start Game, move with the arrow keys, and press Space to plant a bomb at your feet — it turns solid behind you, so always leave yourself an exit lane. On touch screens, hold the direction pad to move and tap BOMB to plant; tapping the maze also drops a charge. P pauses, R restarts. Walk over revealed power-ups to collect them. The level ends when you step onto the golden gate after eliminating every rival — the HUD's rival counter tells you how many remain. If flames or rivals touch you, you lose a life and respawn in the corner with two seconds of shielding.

Tips & Strategy

The two-second fuse is your planning horizon: before planting, decide where you will stand when it blows, because the flame's cross reaches through every open lane and you cannot walk back through your own bomb. Corner planting is the safe early pattern — drop, step around a stone pillar, let the blast eat two crates — but the real skill is chain design: plant a second bomb just inside the first bomb's flame line so both blow together, doubling your demolition per fuse. Prioritize the bomb-count power-up above all; a second simultaneous charge changes you from a sapper into an artillery piece, and fire range third-up is when rivals start dying to blasts they cannot see. Fight rivals with traps, not chases: plant on a lane they patrol, retreat perpendicular, and let their own wander path carry them into the cross. Against the pink chaser, never run in a straight line — it greedily closes distance, so bait it onto a bombed lane and cut sideways through a gap. Remember the gate only works once the maze is clear, so if it surfaces early, mark the spot mentally and keep hunting. And on levels six through eight, spend your respawn shield aggressively — two free seconds of flame immunity is the best demolition window in the game.

What Makes It Distinct

Blast Maze turns every offensive action into a temporary wall that constrains its own author, so the whole game is a negotiation with your own ordnance. The chain-detonation rule rewards engineering fuses instead of spamming bombs, and the gate-behind-a-random-crate structure forces total-map demolition rather than a beeline to the exit.