Changelog: October 2026

The Hall of Fame, challenge standings and badges no longer count a game whose state an administrator changed by hand, and the public list says which games those are.

If you play the same game in two tabs or on two devices, the older one now stops saving and asks you to reload, instead of overwriting newer progress.

A haunted castle played by Citadel of Blood's rules, with an all-new undead roster: twenty monsters from Zombies and Ghouls to the Sovereign of Night, new heroes and classes, crypt rooms, traps, relics and rites. Pick it on the new-game screen.

Between adventures the party now stands in a town built from maze blocks: a square, a street to the maze entrance, houses and a park. Walk to the shop, temple, blacksmith or guild house and press its button to use it, and step into any house to hear what the neighbours are up to.

A shield takes a weapon slot and never attacks. In the front rank it has a 50% chance to block half its bonus (rounded down) off a monster's weapon hit: a +7 shield stops 3 wounds. They turn up in place of magic weapons, in a mod you can switch on when you start a game.

On an item's description, the effects of your gear always appear as armour, rings, talismans, then medallions.

The ten mod spells now have their own pictures. Cleanse lifts Dexterity penalties, such as Kronk's stench or a bad altar, and can be cast in a fight as well as outside one.

A flask nobody can identify is drunk by the character who receives it, and the pop-up then tells you what it was and what it did. Potions recognised on pickup open the same pop-up, and the pop-up for talismans, medallions and rings now lists what they did.

The shop now opens over the character sheet, with the buyer's equipment next to the stock. You can also sell from the Equipment tab, in town and on a Town Portal visit. Goods cost three times as much as before.

Take one quest at a time from the town board: slay a number of a monster, recover a relic from a monster's spoils or a new room, or discover new rooms or a new kind of find, on a given level or any. Hand it in for experience and gold, and a magic item for the hardest ones.

A character released from possession now rejoins the first row with room, or a new row, instead of being sent to the back after the fight.

Public saves now name Deathmaze classes, mod spells and spices instead of printing their internal keys.

The game now saves when a room or corridor encounter starts, so a refresh resumes facing the same monsters instead of rolling a new encounter.

Through the portal the party heals, the fallen can be raised at the temple, characters level up and recruits can be hired, and the shop, smith and purse are all there. It can be used once per adventure, and the party steps back onto the tile it left.

Spare weapons that fit no hand are now dealt out with the other loot instead of being lost to auto loot. The blacksmith never merges plain weapons or armour without a bonus, and his texts say "magic weapons".

The game saves after each action in town (a purchase, a sale, an upgrade, a recruit), so a game resumed mid-visit keeps the upgrades already bought.

When you pick up, buy or hand over a potion you already carry, the doses add up.

Town Portal takes the party to town and back to the same spot, Wave of Force hits the whole first rank, and Slow, Mass Healing, Rally, Identify, Silence, Lay on Hands, Frenzy and Mirror Image join them. The Mods page lists them.

A card reads “DEX 4 +2 sword” (the total on a phone) instead of “+1D6 sword”.

The evil talisman, the statue of the Nameless and a Vampire’s charm close every open screen and play the fight by hand, and a character who resists the evil talisman throws it away at once.

A potion, talisman, medallion or ring you cannot identify yet is shown with its picture, name and who gets it, for about two seconds or until you close it.

Gold arrows mark stairs that go up, down, or both.

The combat table keeps growing past a total of 17, one more wound for every 3 points, so skilled heroes with magic weapons (and strong monsters) can hit for more than 5.

Cards show just the current Strength on the left and current Dexterity on the right, and a monster shows only its active weapon as an icon over the portrait, like the party.

It now leads to the set-up screen instead of doing nothing.

The demo lasts fifty actions, has a restart button and a way home in the game header, and no longer shows a blank page.

Game text, hero names, the room and combat tables and dice (1D6) follow the Citadel of Blood booklet; an English Labirynt Śmierci game keeps its own terms, and old monster and item links lead to the new names.

With infinite levels, monsters and treasure keep getting stronger the deeper you go, instead of stopping at the third level’s strength.

Lists the optional mods you can switch on when you start a game, and the House Rules page now begins with what a house rule is.

The dashboard keeps your games in progress; won and failed games moved to a Finished games page.

Challenges show how many attempts failed or are still going beside those who reached the goal, goals name the gate of the game (Black Gate or Hellgate), and each challenge has a readable address.

A challenge can say how many characters you may take; the set-up and recruiting stop at that number.

Level 0 used to be a single winding corridor; it now branches and has dead ends.

Merge your own magic armours or sun talismans into one stronger piece, and carry spare weapons to sell, merge or swap in.

Pay gold to raise a fallen character or to free one turned to stone.

Sell weapons, armour and magic items for a few coins, or buy from a random stock of twelve items that changes every adventure.

Giant Rat, Ghoul, Giant Scorpion, Mimic, Treant, Cave Bear, Basilisk and Young Dragon, each with a portrait, appear now and then among the usual monsters.

Light healing, Greater healing and Life potions can turn up in place of an ordinary potion, in a mod you can switch on when you start a game.

Each challenge is a card with its goal, how it is ranked, its game, when it starts or ends, how many players reached the goal and, once it is over, the winner.

Replays are switched off while we work out a better way to keep a game’s history. Your saves are not affected.

The credits of the three games are in one place, and the other pages link to it.

Each game’s card shows its box cover.

Resume is the one button on each save and the rest sit in a menu, which leaves room for the data. Your best run fits on one row, and the public Games page always shows each game’s ruleset.

Some visitors were sent back to the login page when they clicked Admin or Play now just after signing in.

The maze entrance is marked, the party purse shows on the character sheet, Healing and Strength potions and spices work in a fight, and the win test counts only what the party gained on this expedition.

Wizards with twelve spells, rings, Evil Wizards, monsters with special powers, ability points and a town between expeditions, with survivors who can go in again, stronger.

Labirynt Śmierci, Citadel of Blood and Deathmaze each have a contents page, a page for every chapter and, for the two booklets, their charts. The Rules page now helps you pick a game.

Pick the game from a dropdown to see its best runs.

Buffs show in green and debuffs in red on the portrait, and the character sheet shows in-fight Dexterity, Magic Shield and the double attack. In Citadel of Blood and Deathmaze, Dexterity is called the Combat Bonus.

Each depth of the infinite maze is now its own level, and stairs join neighbouring levels at the same spot. Saves made under the old model are relinked.

Each card says how the game is won, together and alone, and has its own Play and Customise buttons. Deathmaze Advanced is a Play Advanced button on the Deathmaze card.

Make a party of Heroes and Thieves, lay out the maze from the 116 room and corridor chits, fight, use the six spices, a fountain, a statue and trap doors, and walk out with a shared purse.

The game screen, the site and the share images share one steel palette, with red kept for monsters and danger.

Hero names such as Almuric, Alric and Paladin Glade now follow the original booklet.

On a wide screen the combat ribbon, monsters and party share the main column with the map, prompt and log beside it. On a phone, tapping a hero opens a menu of what they can do. Only the front rank of monsters shows as cards, monster cards match the party cards, and rule links and resistances are one tap away.

Twenty-six spell icons appear in the spellbook, the character card, spell prompts and casting messages.

The home page leads with the faithful rules, has clearer buttons, a band of real game art showing how a delve plays out, and works better on phones, with larger touch targets and better contrast.

The English site now leads with Citadel of Blood and treats Labirynt Śmierci as the other book; the Polish site is unchanged.

Badges now have a page of their own showing which you have earned, which are still ahead, and the share of players who earned each.

The stairs you arrive by now lead only back up, so you can no longer walk down to any depth from them.

Your saves and best run now say how many levels you have explored and how many segments in all, instead of a count for each level.

Explore the maze, destroy the Black Gate, bring home treasure or do well in a challenge and a badge pops up as you play. The new Achievements page lists every badge, what each one you haven't earned yet asks for, and how many players have it. A few are secret, so you only see their names. Your own badges are private to you.

A challenge can now ask you to destroy the Black Gate without losing a hero, leave the maze alive, reach a given depth or come through several adventures, and rank players by steps, damage taken or maze blocks visited.

Pick a running challenge on the new-game screen: its rules, house rules and mods are fixed for everyone, and the standings and the winner are public on the Challenges page.

The list that opens from a character's spells and items button had dark text on a dark background. It now reads clearly, with the reason shown under anything that can't be used right now.

Potions, talismans, medallions and rings on the ground now show only what they are, not which kind, until someone picks them up. A Recognition medallion identifies potions. Armour, weapons and valuables are always plain to see.

Finds are dealt out to the party as soon as they are found. A poison potion the party can recognise is left behind, and weapons the party already has better are destroyed. Auto-rolls, auto-combat and auto-loot now sit together in an Auto menu next to the cog.

On the Equipment tab a character's valuables now show as one total value instead of one tile each.

Select a find in the ground panel and destroy it for good. A second click confirms.

The credits and the history pages now name Decision Games as the copyright owner of Citadel of Blood and Deathmaze.

Signed-in players now get a Continue a saved game button next to Start a new game.

The home page and the Hall of Fame now also rank public games by the deepest maze level reached.

On a phone, a small prompt offers to add Death Maze to your home screen, once you have made your cookie choice. Say "Don't show again" and it stays away.

Add Death Maze to your phone's home screen. The rules, tables, heroes, monsters, spells and items stay readable without a connection; playing still needs one.

The row of level buttons above the map is now a dropdown, which stays tidy with many levels.

It now says the spell works only in combat and only from the second rank, instead of a vague "cast when the situation arises".

Unrecognised paintings, poisoned fountains, toppling bookshelves, the magic bed, declined desks, tapestries and crystal balls, Medusa, and failed altar tests each get a line in the log.

Suggestions for armour, medallions and rings only mention the front rank for a character who actually stands there.

A scrollbar used to appear and push the character cards sideways. It stays hidden now, and the panel still scrolls by wheel, touch and keys.

In town, Upgrade character opens the Stats tab. Next to each stat you can raise there is a + with its price in XP and gold, greyed out with the reason when you can't afford it.

Spells and items now open from a single button on each character's portrait, in and out of a fight. In a fight it lists the combat options; outside one it lists what the character can do, with the full sheet at the end.

A switch in the Auto menu in the top bar, next to auto-rolls and auto-loot. Everyone strikes with the weapon they have ready, or skips their turn if it cannot be used from where they stand, and sleeping monsters are left alone. Your characters never cast spells, monsters you have charmed fight for you, and swaps, potions and buffs stay in your hands.

With the infinite levels rule the map offered too few levels, the dashboard under-counted explored segments, and the stairs messages named a different level than the button. All now agree.

Each hero on offer is a card with a portrait on the left and stats and equipment on the right.

The changelog lists the newest two days; older entries have a page for each month, linked at the bottom.

The markers for loot and unsearched finds stay still instead of blinking at you.

Without the Heroes' Graveyard rule, a character still dead after a fight is no longer carried along. The party shares their gold, the rest of their belongings wait in a pile on the tile, and a skull marks the spot.

Beating the Nameless One and his demons used to leave the party empty-handed. They now carry treasure like any other monster, shared out once the fight is won.

After the healing-spell limit roll at the start of an adventure, its line stayed up until the next roll. It now disappears as soon as you make your first move.

The Plugins screen now works during an adventure, outside combat. Switching a mod off stops anything new from it turning up; tiles, monsters and heroes already in your adventure stay.

The last three rules are in: when no segment fits the closest one is placed with its mismatched sides walled off, traps are searched for only when first entering a room, and each new adventure asks whether to keep the explored maze. The Not played yet list is gone.

If your session has expired, the game now sends you to the sign-in page.

Autosave sends a smaller, compressed update, which helps on slow connections.

End attack phase, Back and Next combat round sit beside Rearrange in the party panel instead of a prompt in the main window, and the encounter menu lists Fight first with a rulebook hint.

The declared weapon always comes first and has no ring, switching weapons asks twice, and the hand frames show quality with no glow on the attacking hand.

Weapons, armour and loot use new illustrated icons. Magic gear is framed green for +1, blue for +2, purple for +3 and orange for +4 and up, plain gear is grey, and gear of the same kind adds up into one line.

Labirynt Śmierci is described by its origin, and the continue list shows only your two latest adventures.

Each apprentice in the demo gets a random name from a list of 20 per race.

Characters without enough experience for an upgrade no longer clutter the list.

The sheet has Equipment, Spellbook and Stats tabs and opens on Equipment, with five backpack tiles per row and an item or weapon description that stays at the top. Weapons are shown only in fights, and Done in the loot list closes the sheet.

Empty party and monster slots are as big as the occupied ones, and empty ranks beyond the second are hidden unless you are rearranging.

When you place a new segment, any key press picks a random orientation.

New log entries appear at the top, and messages now say what they give: spells from altars, bookshelves and manuscripts, Lightning's cost, and upgrades.

Save actions are real buttons, full width on mobile, and each save shows which rulebook it uses under its title.

Tiles where loot was left behind are marked, so you can find it again.

The phone game screen drops the header title and chips, the map footer and the compass letters, uses icon buttons, and the character sheet now fits the visible screen.

WASD moves the party like the arrow keys, and the movement arrows are centred on phones.

Pop-up messages appear only while you explore the maze, not in fights or town, and routine ones such as the party moving or a new segment stay in the log.

Monsters now have illustrated faces, including Bezimienny, the Warlock and the Stone Golem mod's monster, and cards without hands let the portrait fill the card.

The End the game option is gone from the town menu, so it can no longer be chosen by accident.

The party token is drawn larger, at 60% of the tile.

The site now comes as a fully English edition and a fully Polish one, each with its own page addresses, search and sharing details, cookie banner, error pages and social preview image.

A character sheet is closed when a combat prompt needs the screen, and an option's hint now sits on its own line.

The 23 premade heroes have illustrated portraits, you can pick any of 277 faces for a new apprentice, and the hero list and demo party show them too.

The switch-weapon action is disabled for a weapon the character cannot use from their rank, so a misclick no longer spends the attack.

The top bar shows Dashboard instead of the demo link once you are signed in.

Every public page now uses the same content width as the home page.

New pages tell the story from Deathmaze through Citadel of Blood to Labirynt Śmierci with credits, describe how Citadel of Blood is played here, and compare every rule difference. Hero, monster, spell and item pages and the rulebook chapters note where Citadel of Blood differs.

Choose Citadel of Blood, the 1980 game Labirynt Śmierci was made from, on the new-game screen. Its combat, town and encounter rules are played as that book has them, with its own names in English, and saved games show which rulebook they use.

Pages now tell your browser to apply stricter safeguards when loading content. The thin loading bar at the top of the screen when moving between pages was redrawn to fit.

The tables page now fits a phone screen.

Page titles and descriptions now say what the page is about, and the home page is titled Play the Classic Board Game Online.

The demo's map is larger with bigger tiles, everyone in the demo party is armed for their rank, and after signing up from the demo you carry on with the same party.

This page: what is new, improved and fixed, newest first, while the game is in alpha.

A light, translated 404 page that points you back into the maze.

A short taster of the real game: a quick run through the maze with a random party, no sign-up needed. A banner invites you to play the full game.

Public copy was reviewed for accuracy, English text uses British spellings, Death Maze is described as a solo game and the home page names the original board game.

Directions, races, monster names, spell hints, dice rolls and the sign-in pages now appear in your language.

A consent banner lets you choose which cookies to allow, and leaderboards now count only public games.

Public pages load faster: they no longer download game code they do not need, and analytics and the cookie banner wait until the page is idle.

The top menu is grouped into Play, Learn and Explore, and dropdowns close when you click away, press Escape or open another.

The most-picked heroes, deepest delves and richest hoards across every public game, with the top ten in each list.

A short-lived error that broke several reference pages has been fixed.

Browse every spell and each kind of magic item on its own page.

The gaze is now rolled once at the start of the fight instead of repeatedly.

Every hero and monster has its own page, with a section on how the game plays them.

If you already have an adventure in progress, the new-game screen offers to continue it.

Monsters appear as cards above your party. Click a weapon on a character card, then a monster, to attack, and cast spells from a popover. The attack phase can be run in any order, and it works on phones and tablets.

Links to the site now show a preview image on social networks and in messaging apps.

Numbered party cards show ranks and weapon states and can be rearranged by click, drag or keyboard. Each character has a sheet with Stats, Equipment and Spellbook tabs, and the log now sits under the prompt.

The game suggests who each find suits best, shares gold out automatically and leaves the rest of a hoard on the ground.

Combat now honours front and back ranks, and a new house rule lets spellcasters stay in the back rank.

New adventures ask how you want to play and start with every mod and house rule switched off.

A Stone Golem monster, a halfling race with a short-rest house rule, a new kind of find and a Crystal Cave tile deck show what mods can do.

Adventures can now be set up with optional mods that add monsters, races, tiles and finds. You choose them on the Plugins screen when you set up an adventure.

Anyone can read the rules and tables without an account, split into one page per chapter.

Once an adventure has ended, its save is kept as it was.

A footer links to About, FAQ, Privacy, Terms and Contact pages, and the contact page has a form.

Rules, tables, house rules and the log moved into a settings menu, the game log has its own button and the log window closes properly.

Players can stream an adventure from the game header, and anyone can watch it, including combat and the log, from the Live Games page.

An optional house rule makes maze levels endless. House rules are locked once an adventure starts, and a public House Rules page explains them.