Dark Pathways

Dark Pathways is a 2D arcade-style adventure with pixel art. After escaping your cell, you explore a maze filled with monsters and traps, destroy four gates to other dimensions and gather the pieces of a Golden Key. The maze begins empty, but enemies invade through the gates as time passes.

Escape the maze

The four gates lie at the north, south, east and west edges of the maze. Every minute, they remain open for 30 seconds; once that time is up, enemies enter the world, and their numbers grow as the game continues. Find one of four Gate-Keys and take it to the corresponding gate. You can fight monsters or use stealth to evade them, then overload the gate’s circuit with the Gate-Key and destroy it.

Each destroyed gate gives you a fragment of the Golden Key. Carry the fragment back to your cell to secure it. While you carry one, all enemies in the maze are drawn toward you and you cannot use stealth. Reaching the cell keeps you safe for a few moments, but the maze outside changes: familiar paths may be altered or blocked. Use light bullets to create new tunnels. Destroy all four gates and reassemble the Golden Key to finish the game.

Explore and reshape

The game features nine environment styles, with procedurally created mazes and traps. You can climb every surface and use bullets to alter the maze: light bullets destroy walls, while dark bullets construct them. Portal bullets let you teleport quickly.

Enemies and bullets

There are four enemy types, each with different elemental resistances and weaknesses. You have six bullet types—light, fire, thunder, ice, portal and dark—and can upgrade them.