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Some first-person maze games follow the design of Pac-Man, but from the point of view of being in the maze. First-person maze games are differentiated from more diversified first-person party-based RPGs , dungeon crawlers , first-person shooters , and walking sims by their emphasis on navigation of largely abstracted maze environments.
Completion of a maze is rewarded by an interactive scene with some character or location in the world of the maze. The interactive scenes between the different mazes are known as "Places of Power." Choosing the right option allows the player to gain some hints for solving other puzzles in the maze, or to progress further.
Several puzzles can be considered variants of the original Sokoban game in the sense that they all make use of a controllable character pushing boxes around in a maze. Alternative tilings: In the standard game, the mazes are laid out on a square grid. Several variants apply the rules of Sokoban to mazes laid out on other tilings.
Cratermaze is a variation of the Japanese games Booby Kids (released for Famicom) and Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen (1987), an arcade game released by Nihon Bussan. A number of contemporary reviews compare the maze-like gameplay to Hudson's Bomberman series.
The ClueFinders is an educational software series aimed at children aged 8–12 that features a group of mystery-solving teenagers. The series was created by The Learning Company (formerly SoftKey) as a counterpart to their Reader Rabbit series for older, elementary-aged students.
World's Biggest Pac-Man is a browser game created by Australian website designer Soap Creative along with Microsoft and Namco Bandai Games. [1] It is a Pac-Man game which differed from the original by having multiple players play together in a series of user-created, customizable and interlocking mazes.
Dung Beetles is an Apple II maze video game written by Bob Bishop published in 1982 by Datasoft. [1] The gameplay is similar to Pac-Man, but a portion of the maze around the player-controlled character is enlarged as if being viewed through a square magnifying glass. Dung Beetles was ported to Atari 8-bit computers and the TRS-80 Color Computer.