Passage
A whole life in five minutes.
▶ Play Passage free, in your browser, nothing to install
Jason Rohrer's Passage (2007) is a five-minute game about a lifetime. You walk through a long, narrow world: you can share the way with a spouse, open treasure chests, or explore the maze — and you grow older all the time.
Rohrer released the game's source code and art into the public domain.
This is version 4, with its original graphics and music.
Screenshots
Controls
| Arrow keys | Walk (or a gamepad's stick or d-pad) |
| Any key | Start a life from the title |
| B | Zoom: smaller, then bigger again, while held |
| F | Full screen |
| Q or Esc | Leave |
The original
Passage (2007) by Jason Rohrer; C++/SDL (Windows, macOS, Linux). This port follows v4 (Unix source), the same rules, levels, graphics and sounds, running natively in the browser. License: Public domain (Licenses & source). Players: 1.
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