Maze Muncher

Guide your muncher around the maze and eat every dot to clear the level. Four ghosts roam the corridors, touch one and you lose a life.

Eat a large flashing power pellet and the ghosts turn frightened for a few seconds: chase them down for bonus points before they recover. Drop a treat to lure ghosts away from a tight spot.

• Clear all the dots to advance to the next, faster level.
• You have a limited number of lives, the game ends when they run out.
• Power pellets are your moment to attack; frightened ghosts are worth big points.

• Desktop: hold the Arrow keys or W A S D to steer (the muncher keeps moving in the held direction); press Space to drop a treat; P to pause, R to restart.
• Phone & tablet: use the on-screen d-pad to move and the ★ button to drop a treat, full touch support, no keyboard required.
• Movement is hold-to-go: release the keys (or lift your thumb) and the muncher stops at the next tile.

• Save a power pellet for when the ghosts close in, eating them buys space and points.
• Learn the maze: cutting corners cleanly is the difference between escaping and getting cornered.
• Clear awkward dead-end dots early, while the ghosts are still spread out.
• Drop a treat before diving into a risky corridor to pull a ghost off your tail.

Maze Muncher belongs to the maze-chase craze that swept the arcades at the start of the 1980s, clear a maze of dots while a pack of pursuers closes in, then turn the tables for a few frantic seconds when you grab a power pellet. The format was a phenomenon, drawing huge new audiences into arcades and helping define the golden age of the coin-op game.

Maze Muncher is an original homage to the golden age of maze arcade games, the dot-chomping, ghost-dodging formula that defined a generation, rebuilt from scratch for the browser. It runs instantly with no download, and it is free to play, supported by ads.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.