Dark Pathways PC

Escape your cell in this 2D pixel art indie action game and race through a vast procedural maze teeming with monsters and traps. Four gates at the maze's edges open every minute for 30 seconds, unleashing waves of enemies that grow fiercer over time. Grab a Gate-Key, locate its gate, and overload it with light bullets or other types like fire, thunder, ice, portal, or dark to destroy it and claim a Golden-Key fragment. Return each fragment to your cell amid enemy swarms that home in on you, disabling stealth, while the maze shifts with new paths, blocks, or destructible walls. Climb surfaces freely, shoot light bullets to carve tunnels, build barriers with dark bullets, or teleport via portals. Casual players who enjoy arcade-style survival rushes against escalating threats will keep coming back for the gate-closing frenzy.

Dark Pathways is a 2D adventure game with an arcade soul that winks to pixel art. Once out of his cell, our fugitive has to find a way to survive by running along dark paths full of monsters and traps. The door is finally open; it is a mad rush of killing as many enemies as possible while trying to close the gates that allow creatures to enter this world. There is a letter, but it has been torn apart.

Gameplay Description

Your cell is finally open, and you are free to go and move in a vast maze. In the beginning, the labyrinth is empty.
In the perimeter of this maze, there are 4 gates for another dimensions, one at north, another at south, then east and west.
Every minute these gates will remain open for 30 seconds; after that, evil enemies will invade your world, ready to kill you.
The more time passes, the more enemies will be present in the maze.

So haven't got a moment to lose, you need to find one of the four Gate-Key and then find the relative gate.
You can decide to freely run and kill every monster in your path or use your stealth ability and silently evade them.
Use the Gate-Key to overload the gate circuit and blow it up.

As soon as a gate is destroyed, you get a small fragment of the Golden-Key, you must come back to your cell to secure it.
Be ready! This tiny object will attract in your direction all the enemies present in the maze while making it impossible for you to use your stealth skill.

When you bring a fragment of the Golden-Key to your cell, you will be safe for a few moments. But remember, even if inside your cell nothing changes, the entire maze out there will look now different. The paths you have been walking through might be altered or blocked.
Take advantage of your light bullets to create new tunnels and reach your destination.

Destroy all the four gates, and make the Golden Key complete again to finally finish the game.

Main Features

• 9 amazing environment styles
  
• procedural maze and traps creation
  
• possibility to climb every surface
  
• 6 bullet types (light, fire, thunder, ice, portal, dark) and the possibility to upgrade
  
• destructible maze walls using light bullet
  
• constructible maze walls using dark bullet
  
• portal bullet, to fast teleport the player
  
• 4 different enemies, each with different element resistance and weakness