A.M.I.C. GamesCrown Cube Race rules
Crown Cube Race is a real-time race through a maze wrapped around a cube. From level 3 the race spills into extra cubes and side-scrolling worlds, where your monster becomes an android, hunts for crown jewels and battles guardian bosses. 100 levels, 1 to 4 players.
Getting started
- Choose a level from the Level menu at the top of the game. Your progress is saved on this device so you can carry on later.
- Move in real time: there are no dice or turns. Everyone races at once, so speed and route-finding count.
- Win a level by being first to touch the 👑 crown. On world levels the crown appears only after all 3 💠 crown jewels have been found.
How Crown Cube Race works
- Race to the crown: steer your monster through a maze wrapped around a cube with the arrow keys or W A S D on a computer, or the touch pad on a phone. Reach the 👑 to win the level and score a crown.
- Worlds (from level 3): extra cubes and side worlds float in the corners of the screen. Find the 3 💠 crown jewels hidden among them; the crown only appears once all 3 are found, and never on the main cube.
- Ring gates: glowing rings jump you between cubes and into side worlds. Each gate needs its coloured 🗝️ gate key the first time, then stays open both ways. On some levels the path runs cube → side world → cube → side world.
- Side worlds: step through and your monster transforms into an android in a side-scrolling world, with rooms that branch up, down and around. Keyboard: ← → move, Space jump, C run, V fire, B turbo fire, ↑ ↓ to aim, ↓ to duck (twice to lie down; lying on a ledge drops you through), Esc menu. Phones get a stick and JUMP, FIRE, TURBO and RUN buttons.
- Guardians: each crown jewel in a side world is guarded by a boss sleeping in a bubble. It bursts out when you arrive and charges, leaps, flies, climbs the walls, fires bullet storms and lasers. Stomp it or shoot it.
- Gear: grab ⭐ weapon boxes (Spark Blaster, Triple Shot, Bounce Fireball, Laser Beam) and, from level 6, the 🚀 Jump Boots: tap jump again in the air to boost, and keep tapping to boost higher. 💾 Save spots, ❤ hearts, locked guardian doors with their 🔑, and a warp home after the last jewel.
- Wrap-around arenas: one-screen rooms where you walk off one side to come back on the other and ride teleport pads up to the ledges lining the screen.
- Keys, gems and coins: 🔑 wall keys let you walk through a maze wall (press Space or the 🔑 button), 💎 gems and 💰 coins add to your score.
- 100 levels: the cubes start small (4×4) and grow, side worlds get bigger and the guardians tougher as you climb. Online: pick Create, share the code with up to 3 friends and race the classic cube mazes together.
Tips
- Open a ring gate once and it stays open both ways, so collect gate keys early and use gates as shortcuts.
- Touch every 💾 save spot you pass. If you get stuck in a side world, press Esc (or ⏸ on a phone) and choose Back to my last save spot or Back to the start of this world.
- Guardians have patterns. Watch one charge or leap once, then dodge and stomp or shoot it while it recovers.
- With the Jump Boots, keep tapping jump in the air to climb to ledges that look out of reach.
- On the cube, tap Find my monster if you lose sight of it, or Restart level to try a fresh run. Q switches weapons in a side world.
Read the story
Why are the cube creatures collecting crowns and gems, and who sent the strange signal? Read The Cube Galaxy, a free illustrated story book about the monsters, their friendship and their fight against the alien network. 📖 Read or download the PDF