In Mazes and Mages you have to find your way in random mazes and play card duels against enemies. Each randomly generated world has 25 levels filled with enemies with random decks. By defeating enemies and picking up chests you get experience, gold, and cards. You can edit your deck and add the new cards that you get to make it stronger. As you gain levels, you get skill points that you can spend on several skills to help you on the duels. In a duel you use your mage, summons, and spells, to try and defeat the enemy mage. When you defeat the boss in each level you can progress to the next one, and when you defeat the king in the last level you can generate a new random world to play again.