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Maze Chase

A grid maze, four pursuers and a power pellet mechanic that flips the hunt in your favour for a few seconds.

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Maze Chase

Game not loading? The playable build for this title still needs to be added — see DEPLOY.md for the drop-in instructions.

How to play

  1. Navigate the maze with the arrow keys and eat all the dots
  2. Avoid the ghosts — contact costs a life
  3. Eat a power pellet to turn the ghosts blue and chase them instead

Tips that actually help

  • Learn one ghost's patrol pattern, they each behave differently
  • Save a power pellet for the end of a level as an escape route

About Maze Chase

A grid maze, four pursuers and a power pellet mechanic that flips the hunt in your favour for a few seconds. It is one of 6 free browser games on Retro Arcade Online, all of which run without a download .

People searching for maze chase arcade game online usually want the same three things: it has to work immediately, it has to work on a phone, and it has to be genuinely free rather than free-until-the-paywall. Maze Chase is built to satisfy all three — there is no sign-up step, no install and no daily limit on the core functionality.

Because the game runs locally in your browser rather than on a remote server, there is no matchmaking delay and no connection dropped midway through a round. Start it and you are playing within a second.

What makes it different

Most pages ranking for this term are buried under interstitials, cookie walls and pop-ups before you reach the thing you came for. Retro Arcade Online takes the opposite approach: the game loads in the first screen, advertising is placed around the content rather than in front of it, and every page states plainly what you get before you commit time to it.

Common mistakes to avoid

Learn one ghost's patrol pattern, they each behave differently. Save a power pellet for the end of a level as an escape route These are the two things that separate people who get good results here from people who get frustrated — both are small habits rather than anything technical.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Maze Chase free to play?
Yes. Maze Chase runs entirely in your browser and costs nothing. There is no download, no account and no in-game purchase.
Can I play Maze Chase on a phone?
Yes. The game uses on-screen touch controls on mobile and keyboard controls on desktop. Rotating to landscape gives you a bigger play area.
Does Maze Chase save my progress?
Your high score is stored locally in your browser, so it will still be there next time you visit on the same device. Clearing your browser data will reset it.
What are the controls for Maze Chase?
See the step list above. On desktop use your keyboard, on mobile use the on-screen buttons that appear automatically.