Trazen: Zen Maze & Labyrinth

Trace the way out with one unbroken line. Endless mazes that always have a solution, three modes, a shared daily maze, and Ariadne's Thread when you get stuck.

One finger, one unbroken line, from the start dot to the way out. No tilting your phone, no tapping walls into place — you trace the route yourself and the maze quietly opens. Slide forward to draw, slide back to erase, breathe, and find the way through.

Trazen is a maze built to be calm. No score shouting at you, no lives to lose, no timer forced on you when you just want to think. Only a clean sheet of paper, a single line, and an exit somewhere on the other side — the small, absorbing focus that untangles a busy head at the end of a long day.

DRAWN, NOT TILTED

• Press the start dot and drag: your line follows your finger down the only corridors the walls allow
• Take a wrong turn and simply slide back the way you came — the line rewinds with no penalty and no restart
• One continuous stroke solves the whole maze, so it feels like sketching a path rather than fighting a game
• Nothing to tap into place, nothing to aim, nothing rushing you along

ALWAYS SOLVABLE, ALWAYS NEW

• Every maze is generated on your device the moment you open it, so you never trace the same board twice
• Classic maze algorithms — recursive backtracker, Prim, sidewinder — each carve a different character of corridor and dead end
• Each board is a true perfect maze: exactly one route between any two cells, so a solution is always there waiting to be found
• Four sizes, from a quick Small to a sprawling Huge, so a puzzle fits a bus stop or a slow evening equally well

THREE WAYS TO PLAY

• Relaxed: no clock, no pressure, just trace until the path clicks into place
• Time Trial: a gentle countdown for the days you want the quiet pulse of a race
• Limited Ink: a finite ink budget that quietly rewards the tidy, efficient route over the wandering one
• The very same maze plays completely differently under each mode, so nothing ever goes stale

ARIADNE'S THREAD

• Stuck halfway in? Call the thread and the one correct route from the tip of your line to the exit glows softly into view
• It reads from wherever your ink actually reaches, not from the start, so it always picks up your real progress
• Take it as a single nudge or follow it all the way out — the choice always stays yours
• The quiet safety net that means a hard board is a puzzle to enjoy, never a dead end to abandon

A DAILY MAZE FOR EVERYONE

• One shared maze a day, identical for every player on earth, built from the date alone with no server involved
• Keep a streak alive and watch the whole month fill in on the calendar
• Compare your route and your time against your own past runs, then share the day's solve with a single tap

PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE

• An efficiency score on every solve — how close your traced line came to the shortest path the maze allows
• A GitHub-style heatmap of the days you played, filling in square by square, week by week
• Best times, longest streaks, mazes cleared and personal records that actually move as you play
• 40 achievements to unlock, from your very first exit to a hundred-day habit

PERFECT FOR

• Anyone who wants a puzzle that calms the mind rather than winding it up
• People who love minimalist, paper-and-ink design with no clutter and no noise
• Commuters, waiting rooms and long flights — it never needs a signal or an account
• Anyone who finds tilt mazes fiddly and would rather draw the way through with a fingertip
• A few slow, quiet minutes before sleep, without a bright, loud, demanding game

Trazen is completely offline. No account, no sign-up, no subscription, and your progress never leaves your device. Trace the first line and let the maze slow you gently down.