Maze Chase

Maze Chase is a neon take on the maze-and-pellet arcade game. You play Blip, a green orb that has to eat every pellet in the maze while four drones hunt you down. Each drone thinks differently: the cyan triangle runs straight at you, the orange square aims at the tile you are about to reach, the violet diamond uses the triangle's position to cut off your escape, and the white hexagon picks its turns at random, which makes it the hardest one to read.

The drones alternate between scattering to their corners and hunting you as a pack, so the pressure comes in waves. Four green power orbs sit in the corners of every maze. Eat one and the drones turn blue, slow down and become the prey: 200 points for the first, then 400, 800 and 1600 if you catch all four on one orb. They blink white just before they recover, and a drone you eat travels back to the pen as a pair of eyes and comes straight back out.

Two hand-built mazes alternate as you clear them, and both get faster and meaner every level. Wrap tunnels on the left and right edges are your best escape route. A bonus item appears twice in each maze for 100 to 500 points, you start with three lives and earn another at 10,000, and your best score is saved in your browser. Arrow keys or WASD on desktop, swipe or the on-screen d-pad on phones and tablets. Press P to pause, M to mute.