You don’t seem to control Pac-Man in Shadow Labyrinth. You play a lanky human warrior instead, with Pac-Man floating along behind like a Chinese lantern. It appears that if you feed him up, he’ll do the black hole routine and devour your foes. I can think of no more dreadful way to die than to be eaten by Pac-Man. He doesn’t even chew.

A dark take on the classic Pac-Man series, Shadow Labyrinth, is heading to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and PC sometime in 2025. It features a swordsman, who has been awoken by a floating Pac-Man yellow orb called Puck,