Citadel of Blood

Death Maze

A solo dungeon crawl: lead a party into the maze, then find and destroy the Hellgate. A browser adaptation of the Citadel of Blood board game and its Polish edition, Labirynt Śmierci, faithful to the original rulebooks. Deathmaze, their ancestor, is playable too.

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Faithful rules

The game engine follows the original rulebook step by step.

Three rulebooks to play by

Citadel of Blood, SPI's 1980 game, is the default. You can also play Labirynt Śmierci, the Polish game made from it, and Deathmaze (the Basic and the Advanced game), the 1979 game they both grew out of. The Heroes and most tables of the first two are the same; the names and about two dozen rules are not. Deathmaze has its own, smaller rulebook.

Read the rulebook → About Citadel of Blood → Citadel of Blood vs Labirynt Śmierci → Deathmaze rules →

The box cover of Citadel of Blood, the default game.

How a delve plays out

Three steps, repeated until the Gate falls, or your party does.

  1. 1 Draw and explore

    Pull maze tiles from the pool to reveal it room by room, corridor by corridor.

  2. 2 Fight and search

    Battle, talk or bribe your way past whatever guards each room, then search for gold, valuables and magic items.

  3. 3 Find the Hellgate

    Track the Gate down in the depths, fight through the Demons and X the Unknown who guard it, and destroy it before your party falls.

What is Death Maze?

Death Maze is a browser version of Citadel of Blood, the 1980 SPI board game, and of Labirynt Śmierci, its unlicensed Polish edition from Encore. You play solo and lead the whole party yourself (the board game seats one to six), building the maze tile by tile under the printed rules, with optional house rules and mods. Citadel of Blood is the default; pick a ruleset when you start an adventure. Deathmaze, the 1979 SPI game both grew out of, is playable here too, in both its Basic and its Advanced game: read the history.

Hall of Fame

Across every public game on this server.

Most-picked heroes

  1. 1

    Gislan

    3 games
  2. 2

    Paladyn Glade

    2 games
  3. 3

    Weldron

    1 game
  4. 4

    Zuryk

    1 game
  5. 5

    Theregond

    1 game

Deepest delves

  1. 1

    Daevar

    1289 blocks
  2. 2

    Daevar

    630 blocks
  3. 3

    Daevar

    99 blocks
  4. 4

    MK

    68 blocks
  5. 5

    Daevar

    51 blocks

Lowest level reached

  1. 1

    Daevar

    Level 7
  2. 2

    Daevar

    Level 3
  3. 3

    Daevar

    Level 3
  4. 4

    MK

    Level 1
  5. 5

    Daevar

    Level 1

Richest hoards

  1. 1

    Daevar

    52825 gold
  2. 2

    Daevar

    3516 gold
  3. 3

    Daevar

    2389 gold
  4. 4

    Daevar

    518 gold
  5. 5

    MK

    288 gold

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Cloud saves
Your adventures are saved to your account, so you can pick up the game from any device.
Best runs
Track your best playthroughs and party stats on your player panel.
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Add it to your home screen to open it like an app, and read the rules, heroes, monsters, spells and items without a connection.