Games With Particularly Nasty Mazes - an IFDB Poll

One man's meat is another man's revolting quorn burger, but back in the days when good old fashioned sausages had sawdust from the butcher's broom handle as a staple ingredient, mazes were a sine qua non in text adventures. I have always liked them for some reason; which have given you most grief? Here are the biggest head bangers in my experience

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	Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 2 votes "Need One Say More" [+]"Need One Say More: The thief's annoying habit of picking up and sometimes dropping your items make this a nightmare to map conventionally." --Canalboy... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Nomad... Vote for this game

	Whembly Castle, by R.L. Turner 1 vote "A Very Large Dynacomp Game" [+]"A Very Large Dynacomp Game: This one has maze upon maze upon maze...you map one of over sixty locations and you emerge blinkingly triumphant...into another one. The author clearly had a bit of a thing going for them." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington 1 vote "A Game With Seven (Yup, Seven) Examples" [+]"A Game With Seven (Yup, Seven) Examples: The lower levels of the mine sprawl everywhere; to this you can add the double vexation of a very tight lamp timer and the random distribution of essential items within." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington 1 vote "Mainfram Game With Rotating Maze" [+]"Mainfram Game With Rotating Maze: This one has a maze which rotates forty-five degrees with each move and all direction from N, NE to NW apply. A nightmare to map and visualize." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold 1 vote "One Of The Great Puzzlefests" [+]"One Of The Great Puzzlefests: Possibly the hardest of the lot. You are a marble travelling inside a bagatelle-like construction replete with high and low walls and holes in the chutes. Speed as well as direction have to be adjusted to find your way through to the bottom. Oh brother." () --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham 1 vote "A Superb Time Travel Game" [+]"A Superb Time Travel Game: This has a totally unique and very clever maze predicated upon an old mathematical conundrum." () --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	AdventP, by George Richmond 1 vote "Recovered Old Mainframe Homage To ADVENT" [+]"Recovered Old Mainframe Homage To ADVENT: A large and nasty maze with random entry points made worse by the limited lamp fuel available. The descriptions are deliberately misleading in parts of the maze." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game

	Warp, by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik 1 vote "Mainframe Game Set On A Contemporary Island" [+]"Mainframe Game Set On A Contemporary Island: The Warp building contains a very large maze with a cruel one-way exit right at the furthest extremity. This appears to take you to another location. After hours of mapping fatigue this trick is very easy to miss." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game

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Poll created on February 11, 2026