Minos: Home A-Labyrinth temporarily turns Artificer's Ancient Greek maze-builder into a free Home Alone game

Complete with legally chiseled Camaulay Mulkin

"That's not a minotaur, that's a stand-in for the kid prima of a classical 90s Christmas movie," I outcry portion playing Minos' escaped vacation reskin, Minos: Home A-Labyrinth. Devs Artificer person temporarily transformed the demo of their maze-building roguelike - owed retired successful afloat adjacent twelvemonth - into a legally chiseled parody of Home Alone's burglar-hurting antics you tin play for free.

"Ever since the announcement of Minos, immoderate of the players who participated successful our playtests oregon played the demo, joked that the crippled feels similar a definite holiday-themed, trap-setting, kid-outsmarts-the-intruders classic," Artificer wrote successful a Steam station announcing this festive revamp. "So, for the Christmas season, arsenic a gag (and a precise calculated selling ploy), we hacked a information of our ain unreleased crippled into a festive, legally-distinct homage to that vibe, and decided to merchandise it for escaped today."

Naturally, having dug the demo for the regular mentation of Minos earlier this year, I've delved successful to person a go.

As you'd expect, Home Alone Minos runs connected the aforesaid simple, but effectual operation of minotaury Minos. You play arsenic a sky-dwelling deity helping not-Kevin McCallister fend disconnected hordes of nasty burglars, who enactment conscionable similar the plucky adventurers with assorted combat styles who usually privation to slay the minotaur. Your job's to rearrange the walls and traps of maze-like houses to guarantee each question of Harrys and Marvs is breached oregon astatine slightest substantially wounded by the clip they scope the kid, minimising the magnitude of whacking helium has to bash with his candy cane.

Much similar the dungeon-like sections of labyrinth having been transformed into homes filled with Christmas decorations, the Tom and Jerry-worthy enactment of traps person besides been re-rendered successful fitting fashion. The ballista's present a shotgun, statue lures are present televisions, and occurrence traps look similar bodged-together flamethrowers. Instead of moving from enclosure to enclosure arsenic you descend done the labyrinth, you locomotion from location to location successful a snowy neighbourhood, with antithetic waves of enemies awaiting down each door.

It's a chill spot of festive amusive and a twist that makes giving the small spot of Minos that's presently retired determination worthy giving different go. Then, if you similar it, you tin wishlist the afloat mentation connected Steam up of that 2026 release.