The Ruined Colosseum

How to Play

• Everyone gets the same ruined arena every day. It resets at 00:00 UTC, for everyone, at once.
• Move the brass dot (you) to the sky-blue dot (exit) — only a small radius of fog around you is ever visible, and it doesn't stay charted once you move away.
• A lion was loosed from the hypogeum below the arena. It's only ever visible within your fog radius, but it can smell you a little further out than that — if you sense something nearby without seeing it, it's close. Getting caught costs a heart; you get a few moves of safety right after a hit before it can catch you again.
• Lose all your hearts and you're mauled — the attempt resets to the entrance, health and armories included. Your streak is safe.
• Three Armories are scattered through the ruins. Step on one and pick an upgrade for the rest of the run: Lantern Ward (+1 fog radius), Hunter's Sense (a compass toward the exit), Guard's Vigor (+1 max heart, full heal), or Net & Trident (stun the lion when it's right next to you).
• The arena gets bigger and darker through the week — Monday's the easiest, Sunday's the hardest. Pick a level, Beginner through Extreme, on top of that.
• When you finish, you're added to that day's Arena Ledger — a shared leaderboard of every gladiator who ran that day's arena at that level. Your gladiator name and time are visible to everyone who plays.
• Use arrow keys or swipe to move. Come back daily to build your streak.