Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person 3D shooter. The protagonist has to escape from an underground labyrinth populated by monsters while trying to rescue his dog Sparky. The game plays similarly to Wolfenstein 3D and involves the protagonist traversing colorful maze-like areas, shooting monsters on the way with exotic weapons such as a bubble-gum gun. The game's stand-out feature are interactive elements: there are vending and slot machines in the stages which the player can interact with, as well as breakable walls.

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Alternate Titles

"Walken" -- Development title
"LAB3D/SDL" -- Windows and Linux title

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Middleware: SDL

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User Reviews

The first Wolfenstein 3D clone!	DOS	Maw (849)
A true classic.	DOS	PimPamPet (89)
A classic.	DOS	Doug Brozek (8)
Rather engine-demo than a game.	DOS	Sir Gofermajster (481)
Great Game!!!	DOS	Andrew Fimiani (4)
This is a GAME?? I thought it was a homework project from BASIC 101!!	DOS	Satoshi Kunsai (1823)
A Classic? I don't think so.	DOS	Attila (496)
Amazingly bad.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4418)

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The Press Says

Shooterplanet	DOS	Jun 19, 2006	78 out of 100	78
Abandonia Reloaded	Windows	May 06, 2005	3.2 out of 5	64
GameHippo.com	DOS	Nov 17, 2001	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

Here's another excerpt from Ken Silverman's page for the game:

"Now here's something any true fan would appreciate. Epic Megagames shipped a small black hint manual with the full version of Ken's Labyrinth. In November 1999, I released the full version as freeware (see top of this page). As a bonus, I thought it would be cool to include the text of the hint manual. Andy Cotter wrote the original hint manual. Epic then edited it and spiced it up. On my website, I released the ORIGINAL unedited text written by Andy Cotter. In his original description to Episode 3, Level 8, there were a few extra lines:

"By the way, if you find a globe, save the game in front of it and ship the saved game off to us to win a prize (don't bother to if you used any cheat keys, we have ways of finding that out).'

I"'m glad Epic removed this since I never had any prize planned. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it. I'm sure if this made it into Epic's hint manual, I would have remembered! Instead, it quietly slipped out in 1999. For the curious, the globe is still there on Episode 3, Level 8 (Map 28).

"You could imagine my surprise when a fan by the name of Travis Rezka sent me his saved game on April 12, 2003 to claim his prize. At first, I had no idea what he was talking about - afterall, this was 10 years later! Because Travis was the first person to find the globe and point it out to me, he gets to have his name forever listed here on the official Ken's Labyrinth page. Yes folks, that's his prize. :) Nice job, Travis!"

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