Tomb of the Mask - Retro Maze Runner

Tomb of the Mask offers players an arcade experience featuring an endless procedurally generated vertical maze. On a quest for excitement, players venture into a tomb and stumble upon a mysterious mask. Once the mask is worn, players discover they have the ability to effortlessly scale walls, sparking the commencement of thrilling adventures.

5 Tomb of the Mask Tips & Tricks You Need to Know

1. Collect Everything, Look Out for Stage Obstacles, and Swipe Quickly and Efficiently

• The majority of your play time will most definitely be spent going through the stage-based Map Mode. Collecting all of the dots on a stage either nets you a free shield for your next stage playthrough or a bunch more coins. As you unlock and play new stages, you’ll encounter a bevy of new hazards. There’s flying bats and exploding faces to steer clear of, plus you’ll have to quickly move your character if they happen to land on stage hazards that emit spikes. Alongside those dangers are several other one-hit kill elements you’ll need to avoid.

• You can take the stage experiences you’ll gain from the Map Mode into your endless run sessions spent in the Arcade Mode. Memorization of the many dangers present within each stage is also key towards your future success on the later stages within Map mode. Take your time as you navigate each stage since there’s no time limit – take in your surroundings, mentally chart out your movements, collect everything there is to collect, and always finish with a three-star ranking.

2. Spend an Entire Game Session With Arcade Mode From Time to Time

• The original mode that made Tomb of the Mask such a smash hit is Arcade Mode. Here is where you’ll get to take your character as far as you can until they wipe out. You’ll never have to worry about expending any of your energy towards Arcade Mode, which means you can play as much as you want in order to beat your previous best record. Sometimes it’s best if you ignore the Map mode’s stages altogether and stick to playing nothing but Arcade Mode on certain days. You’ll be able to collect even more coins through this method while improving upon your tomb exploration skills all the while.

3. Get Familiar With Every Mask and Their Ability Boosting Properties

• As you increase your Player Level, you’ll gradually unlock stat-boosting masks. It’s even possible to claim new masks as rewards given out by chests. Take a trip to the Shop every now and then to see the unlock requirements for the masks that are still locked. You’ll also get to learn about all the benefits that come with each and every mask featured in the game.

• Some of those masks even offer up special boosts that are only usable within the Arcade Mode. If you decide to pony up some real dough for the game’s Diamond Membership, you’ll be gifted with a few extra masks as well. Once you unlock all of the game’s masks, you should stick to using the ones that boost your most preferred powerups. If you upgraded your Coin Addict powerup more than anything else, then you should stick with the Robot mask (that’s just one example of how you should approach using masks). Of course, the final Voodoo mask (unlocked at Player Level 20) is the most powerful of them all.

4. Which Powerups Deserve More of Your Coin Spending?

• Speaking of powerups, you can spend the coins you earn on upgrading them within the Shop. There’s the Shield, Coin Addict, Freeze, Magnet, and Score Booster powerups you’ll come across during your many stage playthroughs. Over time, you’ll eventually come to recognize the icons that activates each powerup. When it comes to our preferred order of importance for each powerup you should upgrade, follow this template – Coin Addict, Magnet, Freeze, Shield, and Score Booster.

5. Get Used to Watching a Lot of Video Advertisements. Oh and Don’t Forget to Check in on Your Completed Missions!

• If you choose to play Tomb of the Mask without a Diamond Membership, be prepared – you’re going to sit through a whole lot of video advertisements. This isn’t a bad thing, however – watching these ads is totally worth it. They help you open free chests, bless you a free retry after dying, doubles the amount of coins you gain once you receive them, and flat out give you free coins in the shop. Note that max amount of Shield powerups you can gain from watching video ads is 10.

• Don’t forget to subscribe to the game’s Instagram page to claim your free chest rewards as well. Another aspect of Tomb of the Mask you shouldn’t forget about is its Missions. Completing Missions helps you acquire even more valuable coins. Just tap on the three lines present in the top left corner of the main menu to see which Missions you’ve already completed and which ones are next to be beaten.

Tomb Of The Mask Gameplay Overview

Tomb of the Mask by HappyMagenta hit the app store Feb. 9 and went straight to the top of the Best New Games section -- and for good reason. The addictive arcade maze game challenges players to gather coins and dots as they travel upward through a maze with obstacles to overcome like spiked walls, nasty little monkeys and slithering snakes, all the while trying not to get zapped by an upward-moving wall of color. If the wall manages to reach your character it’s game over. Though the maze goes on endlessly until you crash into an adversary, or the colored wall catches up to you, you do reach new levels by accumulating dots along your runs. With each new level you reach, your score is multiplied by the level number, allowing you to earn an increasingly higher score.

How to Get Through Warp Boxes

At the end of a level, you will find three dotted boxes stacked on top of each other. They are the exit doors that lead to another maze. When your character goes through them, he quickly gets warped into another vertical maze.

Sometimes, a new player may get confused as to how to get past through these three boxes. When you spot them, quickly stick to the extended wall below the bottom-most maze. Once your character sticks to the extended wall, swipe up to go through them.

Trivia of the game

General

Of all 550 stages, Stages 1, 110, 351, 352, 362, 410, 416, 429, 441, 446 and 492 are the only stages where neither traps nor enemies which could potentially kill the player are present. The only way the player can lose a life is by pressing the quit button.

Stage 1 introduces the player to the game mechanics. The first trap is yet to appear in Stage 2.

Stage 110 includes the first use of rotating blocks.

Both Stages 351 and 352 introduce how the switch functions in the game.

Stages 362, 410, and 492 utilizes the same element but as the main mechanic.

Stages 416, 429, 441, and 446 require traversing the entire labyrinth to collect all the dots and reach the exit.

Stages 1, 441, and 446 are the only stages that do not have any other object aside from the exit.

Some stages appear to be built from or based on earlier stages.

Stages 30 and 68 have a similar structure wherein a single teleporter is the center of the stage.

Stages 136 and 247 are the same, but they differ from each other in color.

Specific to Stages 1–100

In total, there are 2,192 objects from Stages 1 to 100:

188 spikes — with the most being 22 at Stage 42.

451 hidden spikes — with the most being 23 at Stage 36.

115 bats — with the most being 9 at Stages 33 and 54.

42 monkeys — with the most being 10 at Stage 39.

341 dart traps — with the most being 26 at Stage 53.

50 fish — with the most being 6 at Stage 72.

16 saws — with the most being 3 at Stages 24, 34, and 52.

33 snakes — with the most being 5 at Stages 45, 46, and 96.

4 lava stages — which include Stages 4, 37, 57, and 93.

130 ice boxes — with the most being 43 at Stage 8.

459 trampolines — with the most being 96 at Stage 83.

184 teleports — with the most being 14 at Stages 38 and 93.

73 moving blocks — with the most being 14 at Stage 89.

100 exits

Stage 83 has a total of 111 objects, the most of all stages in the game before the addition of the switch in Version 1.8.0.

There is a total of 15,976 dots and coins, with a mean of 159.76.

Stage 55 has the most number with 403, while Stage 20 has the least with only 35.

Counting the stars, there are 16,276 items altogether.

Clearing the first 100 stages once perfectly and playing solely in Stage Mode can get the player to Level 7 at most.

Throughout the game, players will encounter a diverse range of hazards, foes, gaming mechanisms, and bonuses. Given that time does not stand still, it's essential to master the skill of climbing swiftly to reach higher levels of the labyrinth.