The Outer Maze

Find your way back home

The maze was built to protect Earth. Now its defences are hostile, its routes are blocked, and your ship is on the wrong side of it.

The Outer Maze is a solo, top-down twin-stick shooter. Pilot your ship through tight corridors, fight off pursuers, and find the keys and switches that open the way forward.

• Move and aim independently. Play with a controller or keyboard and mouse.
• Dash through danger. Chain a second dash as the first fades to keep moving.
• Make an opening with EMP. Temporarily disable nearby threats to get past them.
• Read the machinery. Time your route through lasers, saws, mines, and gravity fields.

The demo contains eight missions of three levels each:

• Hearth Ring
• Outer Moorings
• Blind Meridian
• Cold Stacks
• Broodworks
• Drawdown
• Containment Line
• Breakers' Yard

Downloads: Windows and macOS on Apple silicon. The game supports English and Spanish. It doesn't connect to the internet: your progress stays on your computer.

Controls

Keyboard and mouse: WASD or arrow keys to move, mouse to aim, left mouse or Space to fire, Left Shift to dash, right mouse or B for EMP, and Esc to pause.

Controller: left stick to move, right stick to aim, right trigger to fire, right shoulder to dash, west face button for EMP, and Back to pause. The in-game Controls page lists the additional bindings.

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Created by José Gutiérrez de la Concha at Not Only Bits.

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Feedback and questions: hello@notonlybits.com.

When reporting a problem with a build, include its build label, your operating system, and whether you used a controller or keyboard and mouse.