Floodworks

Marble maze puzzles

Floodworks is a PC marble maze puzzle game. You tilt a round stone board to roll a steel ball through a circular labyrinth toward its centre, while water follows the ball and fills the corridors it leaves behind. Reaching the centre means working with the water, not simply staying ahead of it: a golden wheel turns only when flooded, but the rising water can cut off your route back.

Drain plates pull water away for a short time. You’ll need to reach one at the right moment, then cross a corridor before it fills again. Other puzzles involve one-way pits that drop you into another room, braziers to light before water reaches them, and pipes or grates that bring water in from unexpected places. Some doors stay open only while water stands at their wheel. Releasing a second pocket of water swaps which doors are open and closed.