Labyrinthine

About Labyrinthine

Labyrinthine is a cooperative horror game by Valko Game Studios, released on Steam in August 2023. The Console Edition, published by Klabater, followed on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in September 2025, with cross-play between PC and consoles. You can play it alone, but it is built for online groups of up to eight players.

There are two ways to play. The story mode, in six chapters, follows Joan, a fairground worker, into the abandoned Happisburg hedge maze, where people have been going missing. The case files are procedurally generated mazes that change each time and grow harder as you level up, unlocking new monsters, new maze types and cosmetics along the way. There are nineteen kinds of maze, from overgrown hedges and bamboo forest to stone tunnels, mines, a mansion and yellow-wallpapered rooms.

In each maze you search for items and solve puzzles with cryptic symbols to open the way out. More than thirty monsters roam the levels, and each behaves in its own way, so part of the game is learning what each one does and how to get away from it. The maze is too large to cover as a group, so you often split up, and that is where the fear comes from: a friend's voice fades, a light disappears around a corner, and you are left alone with something moving in the dark.

It suits groups who liked Devour or Escape the Backrooms and want a game they can return to, with new maps each run. The story takes about seven hours; players who want a long, story-led single-player horror game will find more of the game in the replayable case files. On PC it can also be played in VR.

How to play Labyrinthine

1. Pick the story mode or a case file, and start alone or invite friends to an online lobby of up to eight.
2. Explore the maze and look for the items and puzzles that each level asks you to complete.
3. Talk to your group and decide who searches where, since the maze is too big to cover together.
4. Watch and listen for the monsters, learn how each one behaves, and run or lead it away when it finds you.
5. Finish the level's tasks and reach the exit, then use the experience to level up and unlock new mazes and monsters.

Tips

• Learn each monster's behaviour before taking on harder case files; what works against one can get you caught by another.
• Split the search but keep talking, so the group knows where everyone is when something appears.
• Mark or remember the turns you take; mazes change between case files, so memory of an old map will not help.
• Hardcore case files give exclusive cosmetics but are much harder; play the normal ones first.
• Story chapters give a limited number of lives unless you choose infinite lives, so do not rush into a monster you have not learned yet.
• Four case files are offered at a time; use re-roll tokens if none suit your group.

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