This tiny maze is super overpowered 

The horrifying implication of the lack of drop in park rating is that all these banished guests are in fact still alive, trapped for eternity in the Shadow Realm.

the death maze is basically a cleverly disguised park exit in the game context

The lab vs practical showcase is such a good example of how data is only as applicable as the methodology and circumstances used to gather it. Always love seeing science literacy in action.

"I want to go on soemthing more intense than DEATH MAZE" personally it sounds pretty damn intense, but you do you rct guest number 10537

"Don't Get Lost" is great!

There is absolutely zero reason for why i should be acquiring this type of knowledge, yet here I am looking at the rather nice throughput of 8 mazes

"It really is the ideal way to perform mass murder". Are we sure Marcel isn't on the run from the law or something?

I know everyone thinks of it as killing the guests, but with how the game treats it the same as your guest just leaving the park, I like to imagine it opens a portal through the nether realm that just plops your guests on their couch back at home.

I think sending your guests to the backrooms might be a OSHA violation.

Ah yes, the "DONT GET LOST!" maze. Definitely the best ever.

Imagine "Death maze", a horror film. People enter the park never to be seen again. A journalist is investigating disappearances noticing a few peculiarities like 10 identical corkscrew coasters. ...until they stumble on the maze which has no exit - only a bottomless hole sacrificing guests to the horror below

The TVs must be playing some great propaganda to keep the guests forever happy. Stuff like, “drowning is the best!”

"DONT GET LOST" was great!

Soo you are telling me... "Don't get lost" was secretly the most op ride in this game? holy fk

"You will have one super unhappy guest walking back and forth in the maze forever, but this is more than worth it for the queue line trap" The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

I've been using this maze ever since I saw "DON'T GET LOST", so to find out it's actually pretty OP "was great!"

Going to one of Marcel’s parks be like: Breathing………….€1.00 Talking……………..€5.00 Standing…………..€10.00 Existing…………….€2.00 Lollygagging…..…€2.00 Chewing……………€1.00

I can't help but admire your indomitable love for this silly little game in such detail and complexity, and I love your Dutch accent a lot.

my favorite usages for mazes: - keeping the soft guest cap above the guest count - keeping the guest count below the soft guest cap - discovering OpenRCT patched the funny maze navigation AI

when joel's joke maze is unironically good

"With a size of just 3 tiles ... it is the smallest ride possible" I'm sure it's got a great personality though

Can't believe I've been hoodwinked into watching a suicide booth efficiency breakdown, 10/10

Can't believe Don't Get Lost was ahead of its time

Using the mazes as decoration while helping the soft gust cap in the park is a brilliant idea.

“hi, welcome to my park; the most popular rides here are The Death Maze, The Universe Coaster, and the Calculator Coaster” -Marcel Vos

8:04 Didn't know that RC2 included an Omelas Simulator. Learn something new every day.

8:04 the sacrificial lamb.

The smaller the maze, the bigger bang you get out of it. It can fill some really tight places and the entry/exit kiosk placement just exemplifies this whole formula.

The funniest thing is seeing guests overjoyed at having gone through a single tile maze!

the moment when joels shitty maze is the best maze in the game

I love how your falling speed to your doom is tied to your energy level.

its wonderful to see this game still so loved. i first played it 20 some years ago and was mesmerized by its scope and bug free experience. i couldn't believe that it allowed me to build all that rollercoasters in 3 dimensions, and manage the park however i wanted. i used to have a prison island to toss all the bad customers there, with security, food stand and bathroom until they calmed down. then i built a boat ride around the prison island LOL it is truly a masterpiece

You could say the Death maze is... A-Maze-ing.

The void accepts. The void embraces. There is no suffering, there is no sorrow, only the void.

“DONT GET LOST” was great!

"DONT GET LOST"

the unsolvable death maze with a single very unhappy guest in it reminds me of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

It would be nice if open RCT 2 had an option to "fix" mazes so that guests have better path finding, and the value to guests is based on size and difficulty.

The ride with 20 consecutive photos reminds me of an idea I had a while back. It was one of a series of awful coasters designed to make its riders as uncomfortable/dead as possible, this one being the Epilepsy Simulator

“Don’t get lost” was great!

This video just proves that Joel is a genius 😌

Guest: "So when do we get to ride the ride?" Queue line: I am the ride

The Void Maze: When you lose a duel in a childrens card game and get sent to the shadow realm

The only down side to using the maze for soft guest cap is you're using up a lot of ride slots, if you have a very large park, using mazes for soft guest cap when they only have 40 limits the number of other rides you can build.

Don't get lost from funny Swedish meatbal

this is the first video I ever saw about rollercoaster tycoon after playing very casually as a child. this feels like a fever dream

When your theme park is actually a cover for your mass burial operation

VoidMaze reminds me of secret park exits and maintenance entrances in Westworld.

You forgot to calculate crew that can fix the coaster and clean vommit in the costs... that is a thing that the maze doesnt need

I wonder if the maze entrance should be alternated so there are exits and entrances on both sides of the surrounding path. My hypothesis is that it would make it more likely for guests to get back in a maze right after finishing one. And this would be good for increasing the profits of the mazes

5:29 - Missed opportunity to say "a very nice throughput"

It's not about the size of the maze, it is about how you use it.

THE ULTIMATE RCT CHALLENGE: PACIFIST RUN! Marcel is just too sadistic to complete it!

"guests will never get bored if there's a TV on every square" reminds me of that defunctland video about line management lol

A series of questions I would love for you to cover is if it's possible to build an entire park underground and if so how to do it. Does being underground give an excitement boost across all rides or just some? Does being underground avoid any weather penalties?

This got me thinking. You could build a people zoo. Have a 2 entrance park, one is a death maze the exits into a massive open plain with no rides or paths. And the other entrance leads to viewing platform/area for “rich guests” to observe.

9:55 "guests will become one with the darkness." This needs to be a youtube short.

Marcel Vos is a genius. His testing, analysis and video making skills are legendary.

The micro-corkscrew costs as much as 12 death mazes, so in your park test the 4 mazes actually outperformed in terms of profit per euro invested in them. It's not as space efficient, but if you're short on cash it would still be better.

I am binge-watching your channel and am amazed at the technical exploit side of this game, which I only played the "normal" way over the years. The speedrun strategies, min-max stuff, cheesy techs are amazing.

"DON'T GET LOST was great!"

Good to have an alternative to closing the park to get rid of guests. I saw your video about closing the park a few days ago and it seemed very difficult :)

The best part about this channel is watching all the people scurry around like ants.

Man, I haven't played Roller Coaster Tycoon in like 15 years. I'm so glad this video found me. I found it quite entertaining and informative.

from "how to profit with a maze" to "mass murderer" in no time, bruh, that escalated very quickly

"For all your guest-deletion needs" - I laughed way too much at this.

The one ride where the people waiting in line are having more fun than the person on the ride.

Do that void maze exit but with a roller coaster and call it: THE HOLOCOASTER

Could this Death Maze trick be used to set another unconscionable world record for the most number of guests killed whist successfully completing various scenarios?

Great video! Entertaining and well directed. My wife loves this game and we enjoy watching your videos together lol. The part about the miserable guy stuck in the maze made us laugh pretty hard.

As a casual player my favorite way to increase profit with the maze is to put a souvenir (typically baloons) stall directly across from the exit. Especially if the maze is only one empty tile, guests will be 100% satisfied when they exit, and will then buy a souvenir at a markup!

This is how I imagine Bob Iger and his buddies see reality.

Pro tip: If you align neighbouring mazes antiparallel (one exit next to one entrance, instead of all entrances on the same side), then there's a high chance that a guest who exits one will immediately enter the next one without having to walk all around the pathway first, increasing the throughput.

5:15 "85-" 85 THOUSAND? "-hundred" oh

I didn't even know this game existed but here I am watching the entire video, just because it could be a really good premise for a horror shortfilm

this is just the springfield mystery spot

Being dropped into hell is just part of the fun of the ride

Seeing that guest walk back and forth between that maze is so depressing

I love how the lift ride can't break down, yet the slide can! Meanwhile, the hotel I was at in Toronto a few weeks ago for a convention, TWO of the six lifts were broken down... xD (One of the four main, and one of the two service elevators.)

Been using that tiny roller coaster and the 3sq Maze since I was a kid, but I never knew about the void maze. So useful!

I love how optimization of simulation and tycoon games inevitably stops looking like anything those professions would actually do.

no idea how i ended up here, havent played roller coaster tycoon in a decade, but still had fun hearing the numbers behind it. good stuff

I love the Orwellian image of guests paying to enter a "maze" where you can literally see the exit from the entrance.

The waterfall of people scene feels like it was pulled from Junji Ito or some other demented mind. Absolutely horrifying, loved this.

I just wanna thank you Marcel for making these video's! Thanks to your videos that i"ve been watching the last days, you have inspired me to go find and dig out my copy of Rollercoaster Tycoon out of my closet haha! having such a blast playing this again!

I always loved building mazes in RCT as a kid, but I was definitely not optimizing for functionality!

Wouldn't an elevator be superior for sifting out customers who want to leave, while leaving customers with money still in their pockets would ignore it?

You mean theres nothing after the maze? No, I mean there's *nothing* after the maze.

Basically, you can use the Death Maze to easily gain a profit as long as you keep other facilities within the vicinity of each Death Maze, effectively guiding each guest to another ride. You can actually create a path TO the corkscrew via these short mazes as long as the guests are happy.

A park maze where the exit leads into a void... Sounds like an scp entry.

That killing people part with the Death Maze is the funniest shit ever

I'd like to see a breakdown of the falling speeds of guests falling through the void. I wonder why they fall at different speeds.

I dunno what even is this game but that mini death maze sounds really amazing

The most confusing maze ever built: A straight line. Confuses the drunk, confuses the sane, confuses the poor and the rich alike. Confuses moms and dads.

8:05 HE NAMED THE ETERNALLY SUFFERING GUEST SQUIDWARD TENTACLES

Headcanon: When a guest falls into the void, they enter the Vaporwave Dimension, have a very weird and trippy adventure, and wake up in their beds, at home, the next morning. That's why the game doesn't consider them casualties, they actually don't die or get lost.

What am I doing here? How did I get here? I've never even seen this game before, yet here I am having watched the video in its entirely. Well thanks RU-vid, I guess. Oh and good video Marcel Vos. You have intrigued me with this video

Algorithm brought me here, never thought I'd be so invested in a mechanic from a game I've never played before.

10:14 "Hey, I've seen this one!"

oh boy another RU-vid nice videogame channel to binge watch! banger video.