How to play Max Mayhem: Alien Eviction

Max Mayhem: Alien Eviction is an original 90s-style first-person shooter, free in your browser. It is 2049 in Neo Bayside City and the Vex — a species of alien landlords — have served Earth an eviction notice and started snatching tenants. Max Mayhem, ex-demolitions contractor, evicts them back, floor by floor. Episode 1: Alien Eviction is complete and playable end to end — six levels from the Rooftop Drop to the Mothership, with health, armor, weapons and ammo carried between them, a save written at the start of each level, and your score reported to the Blitzcade leaderboard when the run ends.

Choosing a difficulty

Pick a tier on the start screen before you go in. Rookie is the default and the gentlest: Max starts with more health, takes half damage, hits a little harder, finds more in every medkit and ammo box, and the Vex are slower to line up a shot, wilder with it and only ever send two at you at once. Regular is the fight exactly as designed. Mayhem is for veterans — the Vex see further, shoot sooner, hit half again as hard and all of them come at once. Enemy health, movement speed and the level itself never change, so the block plays the same either way. Your choice is saved in this browser and applies to your next run — changing it does not affect a fight already in progress.

Desktop controls

• WASD run and strafe — movement carries momentum, so keep moving.
• Click the view to lock the mouse, then aim by moving it. Space jumps, C crouches.
• Hold the left mouse button to fire. Switch weapons with 1–6 or the mouse wheel.
• E uses whatever you are looking at: doors, switches, lifts and city props.
• P pauses, M mutes.

Touch controls

• The left third of the screen is a virtual stick: touch and drag to run and strafe.
• Drag anywhere on the right side to turn and look. Vertical aim is automatic on touch.
• FIRE, USE, JUMP and WPN sit bottom-right and accept simultaneous touches — you can run, turn and fire at the same time.
• Tap WPN to open the weapon strip, then tap the weapon you want.

Keycards, secrets and the city

• Locked doors show a coloured seal: find the matching rust, cyan or violet keycard somewhere on the level.
• Secret stashes hide behind odd-looking walls and quiet corners — a chime confirms each one you find, and the tally screen counts them at the end of the level.
• The city fights with you if you let it: barrels explode, cracked walls come down, hydrants, vending machines and arcade cabinets all respond to the use key.
• Medkits patch you up, armor soaks damage, and the rare Landlord's Deposit overcharges your health past its maximum.

Scoring

• Kills, secrets and beating the level's par time all feed your score. Clear the floor to bank the full tally.
• Your best run is saved in this browser. Your score reaches the Blitzcade leaderboard when the run ends — on death or on completing the episode.

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