Mystic Labyrinth

Mystic Labyrinth is a top-down 2D twin-stick shooter roguelite. You choose from multiple starting classes and fight through themed labyrinth floors using swords, spears, axes and magic.

Elemental floors

The labyrinth has eight floors: floors 1 and 2 are themed around Earth, floors 3 and 4 around Fire, floors 5 and 6 around Water, and floors 7 and 8 around Air. Additional floors with other elemental themes are planned.

Rooms and progression

Each floor has a boss room. Defeating its boss guarantees an item and opens a path to the next floor; bosses are particularly weak to bombs. You can also bomb certain environmental objects, including small statues and rocks. Bombs explode after a short delay and can break some obstacles and walls to reveal hidden secrets or pickups such as coins and keys.

Every floor has a treasure room that guarantees an item, as well as a secret room connected to at least two other rooms and a super secret room connected to just one normal room. You can bomb through the middle of a wall to enter either type of secret room. Treasure rooms require a key to open after the first floor.

The first floor of each two-floor elemental set has a shop where you can spend coins on pickups and an item. Shops require a key to enter after the first floor. The second floor of each set has a blacksmith room where you can buy permanent stat upgrades; these rooms require a key. Treasure rooms have a tiny chance of being replaced by a gemstone room containing a powerful gemstone item. The quartz item increases the chance of a gemstone room appearing, and gemstones are also intended to have a secondary function.

Items and stats

You can carry up to eight active items, which you activate manually. These typically cost mana to use. You can restore mana by clearing a room full of enemies or picking up a blue mana star; each star is worth 2 MP. Grab bag pickups drop between one and three other pickups.

The stat screen lists attack, which determines your weapon shots’ damage to enemies but not bomb damage; speed, which determines movement speed; shot speed, which determines how fast weapon shots travel; shot delay, which determines how rapidly you can fire; range, which determines how far a shot travels before disappearing; and luck, which affects several things, including the chance of a pickup spawning after you clear a room of enemies.