Mochi Chomp

About Mochi Chomp

Mochi Chomp is a cozy maze-chase arcade game. A round white mochi with a big wedge mouth auto-runs through a candy-colored maze, chomping a trail of glowing crumbs. You never steer directly - you swipe anywhere on the screen and the muncher takes that turn at the next corner where it is legal, so tiny thumbs never have to nail a split-second steer. A swipe opposite to your heading reverses you instantly, mid-corridor, and a little chevron on the muncher's head always shows which way your last swipe pointed.

The goal of every maze is simply to eat every crumb - the big power berries count too. The whole board fits on one portrait screen and never scrolls, so what is left to eat is always right there in front of you; there is no quota to read. Three ghost-puddings hunt you, each with its own readable personality: red Boro chases your tail, pink Momo cuts ahead to where you are going, blue Bloo flees the instant you turn to face him, and mint Mini follows Boro like a duckling. Eat one of the four corner berries and the tables turn - the ghosts go wobbly navy and run, and you chase them down to pop them into eyes that float home.

There are 20 hand-tuned mazes, each cycling through five candy palettes (Berry, Citrus, Mint, Ocean, and star-flecked Galaxy). Early boards are tiny and nearly a ring with a single hunter; then the maze grows, the hunters join one at a time as their own lessons, warp tunnels open on the edges from level 8, candy-cane gates slide open and shut from level 14, a heart-mochi lets you earn back a lost heart from level 5, and from level 18 the lights go out and you play by a warm lantern glow.

Clear all 20 and Endless mode opens: generated mazes that begin at the final level's difficulty and keep ramping - taller boards, faster running, quicker hunters, shorter berry time - with every mechanic active from the very first endless maze. The layout and palette are seeded by the level number, so every board differs. There is no timer, no score, and no way to get permanently stuck - a lost heart never un-eats a crumb, and the last few crumbs light up a beacon so you can always find them. Finishing any maze always lights up all three stars.

How to play Mochi Chomp

1. Swipe anywhere - up, down, left, or right - to tell the muncher which way to turn at the next corner.
2. Watch the little chevron on the muncher's head: it shows the turn you queued, so you know your swipe took.
3. Chomp every glowing crumb in the maze. The board is the goal - when the last crumb is gone, you win.
4. Swipe the opposite way to spin around instantly if a ghost-pudding is bearing down on you.
5. Eat a big corner berry to turn the ghosts wobbly-blue, then chase and chomp them for a few sweet seconds.
6. If a ghost boops you, you lose a heart and pop back to your start - your eaten crumbs stay eaten, so keep going.
7. Clear the whole maze before your three hearts run out to finish the level and open the next candy board.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• You do not have to swipe right at the corner - swipe early and the turn waits, or a touch late and the cornering grace still catches it.
• Red Boro chases your tail, so a straight run away from him is fine as long as there is a corner ahead he cannot follow around.
• Pink Momo aims where you are going, not where you are. Wiggle and change direction on a long straightaway and her ambush falls apart.
• Blue Bloo runs the moment you face him. Turn toward him on purpose to clear the corridor he is guarding - facing the scary thing is your tool.
• Save a berry. Eating one on sight is fun, but hoarding it for the last crowded corridor near the pen is how you finish a hard board.
• When the ghosts all wander off to their corners in a scatter wave, that is your window - sprint for the far crumbs while the pressure is off.
• In the dark mazes the ghosts carry their own colored glow, so you can always see a hunter coming - the last crumbs also light up a beacon.
• A slammed candy-cane gate blocks a ghost as well as you - time your run so a gate shuts in a pudding's face while you slip past.

Game features

• One-swipe controls: swipe anywhere to queue a turn, swipe opposite to reverse - built so a six-year-old never has to nail a split-second steer.
• Cornering grace plus a chevron on the muncher's head, so a slightly-late swipe still turns and you always see that it took.
• Three ghost-puddings with readable personalities: Boro chases your tail, Momo cuts you off ahead, Bloo flees when you face him, and Mini trails Boro.
• Power berries flip the chase: eat one and the hunters turn wobbly-navy and run while you chomp them into eyes that float home to the pen.
• 20 hand-tuned mazes that ramp from a tiny beginner ring to a tall labyrinth, with hunters, tunnels, gates, and darkness each arriving as its own lesson.
• Warp tunnels that wrap the maze edges, sliding candy-cane gates you can slam in a ghost's face, and lantern-dark boards you read by glow.
• Three hearts and a soft, friendly boop instead of a scary death - a lost heart never un-eats a crumb, and a heart-mochi lets you earn one back.
• Endless mode past level 20: generated mazes with every mechanic on from the first one, starting at the finale's difficulty and climbing.
• A board that is always fully on screen, so what is left to eat is never hidden and the last crumbs light up a beacon - you can never get stuck.
• Synthesized sound throughout: the waka chomp, a rising berry power-up, wailing scared ghosts, gate clacks, and a three-star clear jingle.

The Chase, With the Running Taken Out

Maze-chase games have a hidden barrier for small hands: they ask you to hold a direction while a hunter closes in, and a six-year-old's thumb rarely lands the corner in time. Mochi Chomp removes that barrier without removing the game. The round little muncher runs on its own, and your one job is to swipe - anywhere on the screen, any of four ways - to say which way it should turn at the next corner. The turn is queued, a pastel chevron rides on the muncher's head to show it took, and a generous cornering grace means a swipe that lands a hair late still catches the turn. What is left, once the panic of steering is gone, is the pure old arcade pleasure of routing a board.

The three ghost-puddings are not abstract danger; each is a personality you can read. Boro, the red one, is a plain dogged chaser who runs straight at your tail - scary in a corridor, harmless the moment you take a corner he cannot cut. Momo, the pink one, ignores where you are and races to where you are going, four tiles ahead of your mouth, so long straight sprints get you ambushed at the far corner. Bloo, the sky-blue one, is a coward: chase you from behind he will, but turn to face him and he panics, sweat flying, and flees to his corner - which turns facing the scary thing into a genuine tool for clearing the corridor he was guarding. Adults will recognize the target-tile logic under all three and start routing the board like it is 1980.

The reversal is the heart of it. Four big strawberry berries sit in the corners, and eating one flips the whole world: the puddings turn wobbly navy, wail, and run, and now you are the hunter, chasing them down to pop them into a pair of eyes that float home to the pen. Six-year-olds live for that moment; the deeper game is learning to save a berry for the one stubborn corridor rather than spending it on sight. Nothing here is timed and nothing is scored - the board itself is the goal, every crumb visible at once, so the only question is the order you clear them in and when you cash a berry.

Across twenty hand-tuned mazes the one swipe never changes - everything around it does. The board grows from a nearly-a-ring beginner loop to a tall thirteen-by-seventeen labyrinth; the hunters arrive one personality at a time so each is its own wordless lesson; warp tunnels bend the edges into escape hatches, candy-cane gates slide open and shut to a rhythm you slam in a ghost's face, and the final mazes turn the lights off so you read the board by lantern-glow and twinkling crumbs. Three hearts, a soft friendly boop instead of a scary death, a heart-mochi to earn a lost heart back, and three stars for finishing any board keep it gentle. Clear all twenty and Endless opens - generated mazes that start at the finale's difficulty and keep climbing, every mechanic live from the first one.