Two Minutes Left

A game for Playdate.

What is it?

Two Minutes Left is a tense maze-runner  about making one clean escape under pressure. You wake up at the edge of a shifting labyrinth with just enough health to last two minutes: get to the gold in the center, then find your way back home before your health drains away.

It’s part navigation challenge, part risk management. Every wrong turn costs you. Every monster encounter can end the run. Every bite of pie, every sword pickup, and every glance at the compass matters.

How it works:

Choose a maze size, step into a freshly generated labyrinth, and start moving. Your health is your timer, constantly ticking down as you explore. A compass points you toward the gold on the way in, then points you back home once you’re carrying it.

Along the way, you’ll find pie to restore health, swords that can instantly kill a monster, and roaming enemies that turn every close call into a gamble. You can also use the Playdate crank to zoom the maze in or out, whether you need a tighter view for precision or a wider view to plan your route.

Bring the gold home to win and unlock a tougher maze.

Features:

• Procedurally generated mazes, so every run feels different.
• A simple, high-stakes objective: get the gold and make it back alive.
• Health-as-time design that keeps constant pressure on every decision.
• Roaming monsters and risky encounters that get deadlier when you’re weak.
• Pie pickups for recovery and swords for instant monster kills.
• Playdate crank support for live zoom control.
• Built-in progression with larger, harder mazes to unlock.

Enjoy mastering Two Minutes Left!

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Please check out my other Playdate games.