Move around and interact with objects to reach the goal in 200 single-screen levels that steadily introduce new gameplay features. As the focus is puzzle solving, you can undo your moves at will.
The game isn't based around a single gimmick, but rather features a wide variety of different tiles and game mechanics that mix together to create varied puzzles to solve.
Some of the game mechanics include:
- Pressing switches to alter tiles
- Carrying and utilizing items
- Pushing crates
- Sliding on ice
- Traversing lava in various ways
- Using magnets to push and pull tiles
- Jumping from springboards
Some of the later levels feature increasingly odd and advanced scenarios:
- Manipulating a turn timer that alters objects after ticking down to zero
- Moving around diagonally temporarily
- Carrying an extended amount of items and duplicating them
- Destroying yourself by moving into an infinite loop to respawn to a spawnpoint
- Creating and loading save states of a level to your advantage
Ultimaze also contains a simple level editor tool and a block guide that contains a tutorial levels for each tile type.
