Crystal Maze was a short-lived UK television game show which originally featured Richard O’Brien as the presenter (famous for writing the Rocky Horror Picture Show and starring as Riff Raff in the film).

In the game you basically play through the same series of tasks as in the television show. Solve puzzles to collect time crystals so that you can then have more time to collect gold tokens in the Crystal Dome.

There are four zones and in each zone you must play a game to get a time crystal or lose a team member. The games are, honestly, sort of lame. The first skill game I got was just like you find in bowling alleys and stores with the crane were you have to line up the claw and pull out a prize. The second was a ball-in-maze where you need to tilt the phone to get to the exit. The mental game required you to connect wires to terminals in a classic move the piece to connect them way. I did it, but the game stated I failed.

Overall the iPhone game seems to be attempting to capitalize on the success the show had some time ago. Considering that it ended in 1995 it seems a little late to do that. Additionally, it’s a lot of stopping and reading or watching while the game does all the setup and then you play something for two minutes. It’s also not a very good game if you only have a few minutes to play as half of that will be wasted reading instructions, etc.

The games are simplistic or just don’t work. The graphics are basic and the sounds, were just sort of annoying so I turned them and the videos off to save time. Really, this is a game that I see no market for and no reason that it should have been made because frankly, it’s not all that good. I’m not even going to bother putting screenshots in this one as there’s nothing really to see.