WHAT YOU ARE DOING

• Find the gate. It always sits on the upper storey, so the first job is finding a way up: a staircase and a lift join the floors.
• Explore at your own pace. Free Wander has no clock at all. Seeker asks you to collect every power core first, Time Trial gives you a deadline.
• Nothing is random twice. A seed builds the same labyrinth every time, so you can replay a layout you liked or race a friend on it.
• Every run is solvable. The generator walks the level itself before handing it to you, keys included.

WHAT YOU WILL MEET

• Coloured doors need the key of the same colour. Picked up keys show bottom left.
• Levers move a wall somewhere else in the labyrinth. Listen for the grinding and you will know roughly where it opened.
• Beacons ping quietly. When you are lost, stop moving and follow the sound.
• Map fragments reveal a patch of floor you have never walked.
• Crystals and recordings are optional. They are counted when you finish.
• The lift only answers from the cell it stands in - press use and ride it.
• Doors slide out of the way rather than swinging: down into the floor on the ground storey, up into the lintel on the ones above. Either way they never end up in the room above.

MAP, LIGHT AND TIME

• M the big map, centred on you. V the small corner map.
• Tab peeks at the other storey. Walk up or down and the map follows you on its own.
• + − zoom the big map in and out.
• F the flashlight, and you will need it. Every labyrinth has wings where the lamps still burn and wings where they do not, and the dark ones are properly dark. It can be set to run on batteries in SETTINGS if you want the pressure as well.
• Anything alive shows on the map, fog of war or not: the Watcher as a pulsing red ring, apparitions as pale dots. Both views show them and the big map names them along the bottom.
• The clock, the seed and the current track sit in the top right corner.

KEYBOARD & MOUSE

• WASD or the arrows walk, always relative to where you are looking.
• Mouse looks around. Click the picture once to capture the pointer.
• Left button walks forward, right button walks back.
• Middle button or Space jumps.
• Shift runs · Q R turn on the spot.
• E opens doors, pulls levers, calls the lift.
• T spends a recall charge and pulls you back somewhere you have already been.
• P music play/pause · N B next and previous · [ ] volume.
• F9 quick save · F8 quick load · Esc menu.

Every one of these can be moved somewhere else in CONTROLS. Click a binding and a list opens: mouse buttons and the wheel are chosen from it, keys are pressed. There are three ready made schemes to start from.

PHONE & TABLET

• Left half - touch and drag for a virtual stick: walk and strafe.
• Right half - drag to look around.
• USE opens doors, pulls levers, calls the lift.
• JUMP, LAMP, BACK (recall) and MAP run down the right edge.
• RUN latches on and off, so you need not hold it.
• ❚❚ in the top right corner opens the menu.

The touch layer appears by itself the first time you touch the screen, and can be forced on or off in CONTROLS.

META QUEST 3

• Left stick walks · right stick turns, snap or smooth.
• Push the right stick forward to jump - the right grip does it too. Both are only defaults: every Quest control is on the CONTROLS screen and can be moved wherever you are used to it.
• Left grip runs.
• Right trigger - hold to aim the arc, release to teleport.
• Left trigger uses whatever you are pointing at.
• X flashlight · Y recall · A map storey · B pause.
• The map rides on your left wrist. Turn your arm to read it.
• Comfort profiles in SETTINGS set the vignette and the turning style.

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WHAT THE JUMP KEY IS FOR

• Trenches. A gap in the floor with a yellow kerb round it. A running jump clears one; walk into it and you drop in, and getting out again is another jump.
• Holes. On the upper floor a gap can go all the way through. Miss it and you land a storey down, unharmed but a long walk from where you were.
• Barriers. A slab fallen across a corridor, striped along the top. Walking stops dead at it; Shift and a jump go over.
• Rubble. A pile you can only reach the top of by jumping, and there is always something up there worth the climb.
• None of them is ever the only way through. Every gap has a way round it, so a jump you cannot make never costs you the run.
• Under the open sky there is no ceiling to stop you. Indoors a jump ends when your head reaches the roof, however hard you pushed; outside, the strength setting is the only limit, and at 300% you can put yourself on top of the walkways.
• A wall is only as tall as it looks. Clear the top of a walkway parapet and you are over it — and then you are falling into the courtyard, which is entirely your business.
• Land somewhere the labyrinth does not go and you wake up at the start. Nothing is lost but the walk.
• The ceiling itself is a setting. SETTINGS → Ceiling height runs from 4.3 m to 12 m, and the slider tells you how much jump room that buys — 9 m of ceiling gives you seven metres of air. Changing it rebuilds the labyrinth around you; your score, your keys and your map come with you.

Standing jumps clear the piles and slabs. A gap in the floor needs speed as well - hold Shift before you leave the edge. If that still feels short, SETTINGS has a jump strength slider that goes up to 300%. The obstacles are laid out for the default, so turning it up only ever makes things easier - and however hard you jump, the ceiling of the room still stops you.

RECALL CHARGES

• T spends one charge and pulls you back to somewhere you have already walked.
• You do not choose where. It picks at random from the far half of everywhere you have been, so recall is an escape, not a shortcut.
• You start with one - or with as many as you like: SETTINGS has a slider for it. Three more are hidden in every labyrinth, and there are usually a couple on top of the rubble piles.
• The count sits at the bottom of the screen next to the crystals.
• It is the answer to the Watcher: when something is between you and the way you came, spend a charge and be elsewhere.

THE GHOSTS

• They cannot touch you, follow you, block you or end your run. They do nothing at all.
• They drift at the far end of a corridor, always somewhere you can actually see from where you stand, and they are gone before you get there. Walk right up to one and there is nothing to see.
• They show on the map as pale dots while they last, so one can no longer drift past behind your back without you ever knowing.
• No two are the same shape. Nothing about them is repeated, so you never quite learn what you are looking at.
• Turn them off in SETTINGS if you would rather explore in peace.
• The Watcher, in Silent Pursuit, is a different thing entirely - that one is real and it does end your run.

THE ORBS, AND YOUR SCORE

• Eight colours hang at head height all over the labyrinth. Walk into one and it is yours. The running total is bottom left, and the map shows every orb you have discovered, in its own colour.
• Magenta — +100. Exactly ten in every labyrinth, however dense the rest. These are what a good run is made of.
• Black — −100. Also exactly ten. Ten of them undo ten magenta, so a careless route hands back everything a careful one earned. They are ringed in red on the map for a reason.
• You can jump a penalty. Get airborne over a black or a red one and you knock it out of the air for nothing at all — no points lost, and it is gone. Jump a fraction early and nothing happens until you either rise over it or come down on it, so the timing is forgiving.
• Green +10 · Cyan +5 · Red −1, and there are plenty of red.
• White — double points for 20 seconds. Rewards only: it will not double a black one.
• Yellow — a surge for 15 seconds: half again as fast, and a third higher.
• Blue — one more recall charge.
• How many there are is up to you: SETTINGS → Orb density, from off to a swarm. The ten magenta and ten black never change, so two runs stay comparable however thick the rest is.
• Finishing shows your score, orbs taken and points per minute, and the best score per labyrinth is kept in RECORDS next to the best time.

ADVANCED: THE ENGINE ITSELF

• SETTINGS → ADVANCED opens the numbers the game is built from — ninety-six of them, on nine tabs: Geometry, Movement, Jumping, Orbs, Generation, Lighting, Presences, Audio, Rendering.
• Room height, floor thickness, gravity, walk and run speed, how loopy the maze is, how many trenches it digs, how far a lamp carries, how often a ghost turns up, how loud each kind of sound is.
• Live values bite the moment you let go of the slider. Rebuild values belong to the generator, so the labyrinth is built again around you — same seed, same score, same orbs, and you stay where you were standing. Each row says which it is.
• JSON shows your changes as text you can copy to another machine and paste back. RESET ALL puts every one of them back.
• Only the values you actually changed are written to labirynt.ini, so a later build's better defaults still reach you for everything you left alone.
• Nothing here is validated for fairness. Gravity at 2 and a jump cap of twelve metres is a perfectly good afternoon, but the labyrinths are laid out for the defaults.

NOTHING GETS LOST

• The game autosaves every twenty seconds and again when you close the tab, so a stray F5 costs you nothing.
• CONTINUE on the main menu picks up exactly where you stopped.
• SAVED GAMES holds five named slots plus the automatic one. Click a name to rename it.
• Best times per labyrinth and mode are kept under RECORDS.
• Everything lives in labirynt.ini when the server can write it, and in this browser when it cannot. Whichever is newer wins.

IF YOU GET STUCK

• Open the map and look for a corridor you have not walked yet - undrawn ground is where the way on will be.
• Cannot find the stairs? They are always flanked by a stone tower that stands taller than everything around it.
• A door you cannot open means its key is still out there. Doors and keys are always placed so the key comes first.
• Stand still and listen. Beacons, the lift and moving walls all make a sound with a direction.
• Out of ideas and out of patience? Spend a recall charge with T - it drops you somewhere else you have been, which is often enough to see the place differently.
• Still stuck? Restart the level from the pause menu - same seed, same labyrinth.