Maze rush

Maze Rush is built out of walls and dead ends. Each level drops you inside a maze seen from close quarters, so the corridor in front of you is most of what you know, and the exit could be one turn away or twenty. The mazes stack up over a long run of levels, and they widen out as you go.

What it asks of you is memory more than reflex. Backtracking costs nothing except the sense that you have already been here, and the levels are laid out so the wrong branch looks exactly as promising as the right one. Steering is a single stick on the screen, which keeps your attention on the map you are drawing in your head rather than on your hands.

How to play

Steer through the maze and find the exit; that is the whole objective, level after level. Push the stick in the direction you want to travel and let go to stop. When a corridor splits, pick a branch and follow it all the way to its end before trying the other, because half explored routes are what get you lost. Later levels are larger rather than trickier, so patience beats speed.

Controls

A virtual stick on the screen steers everything: hold it in a direction and you walk that way, release it and you stop. There are no separate keys for turning or for looking around, so the direction you push is the direction you travel. Short nudges work better than long pushes when a junction is close.