This is a path making and maze styled game where players must choose which doors to unlock with a limited set of keys in order to create a path to the level exit.
Collect colorful keys. Use the keys to unlock doors of the same color.
Choose your sequence correctly so that you simultaneously collect the keys needed to make it to the level exit while opening up a path to the exit.
Play through 15 challenging stages.
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Keydown Game for Kids Video Game Play Instructions
How to Play
Move around the stages to collect keys. Unlock doors in the correct order to create a path to the level exit.
Starting the Game
Select the Play button in the center of the welcome screen to bring up the level select screen.
Levels are unlocked sequentially.
Your web browser automatically saves your game progress.
The upper right corner of the welcome screen has buttons for sound control and music control.
Game Controls
Desktop
Jump by pressing the W key, the up arrow key, or the space bar.
Press twice to double jump.
Move left by pressing the A key or the left arrow key.
Move right by pressing the D key or the right arrow key.
Restart the level by pressing the R key.
Touchscreen devices
This game was designed primiarly for play on computers with attached keyboards.
Controls & indicators
The upper left of the screen shows your current active inventory of keys.
Keys on the playing field contain a number near them when the represent multiple keys.
Locks requiring multiple keys to open have multiple key pictures on them.
The level select screen shows which levels you have unlocked.
Game Play
Basics
This is a maze game based on colorful keys & locks.
Each key can only unlock locks of the same color.
You must unlock the correct locks, in the correct order, to create a path connecting to the star shaped level exit.
Levels
This game has 15 stages which are unlocked sequentially.
You can go back and replay previously beat levels at any time.
Winning vs losing
You win by unlocking the locks in the correct order to collect the keys needed to complete a path to the level exit.
You lose if your lock picking order is wrong to where it becomes impossible to complete a path.
The game does not show a “level failed” screen, but at some point it becomes impossible to progress further if you make an error.
If you get stuck or know a mistake makes the level impossible to beat press the R key to restart the level.
This game offers unlimited continues, starting you at the beginning of the level you failed.
Tips
Whenever you make a play consider all possible parallel options and try to anticipate forward the next move or two down each path.
You can often determine which path is required quickly by deducing you will get stuck if you go one way or another.
On most levels you do not have to unlock all locks & are not given enough keys to unlock all locks, so focus on whatever is needed to unlock the path to the final exit & whatever helps you grab keys to enable that path.
Inventory your keys.
Some levels start off by giving you a large collection of keys.
Look for the keys which you are given the fewest of & consider areas where their use are required, and then plan the remainder of your keys based on accounting for those uses.
Conserve your keys
Take your time to ensure you do not walk too far and use a key on the wrong location.
Doing so will typically lead to a sure loss on many stages, especially on levels 13 and 14.
On level 14 it is easy to accidentally walk too far into another lock and waste a key as you are jumping between platforms and collecting keys.
One way to lower the risk of this sort of accident is to only clear the left or right side of each passage on the stage & wait until your other keys are exhausted to collect the 8 blue keys.
If you get stuck you may be able to use our level play screenshots as guides.
Our screenshots below show the ending level layouts for levels 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, & 15.
Target Audience
The game is suited for players who like path planning logic puzzle games.
If you like this game, check out I Wanna Lockpick, as it has a similar set of mechanics and over 100 more levels.
I Wanna Lockpick, in turn, appears to have been inspired by I wanna KeyPick 100.
The game has no adult themed content.
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Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support
This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.
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“Keydown” uses 15 levels that it has directly stolen from the game “I Wanna Lockpick” found on Itch.io, it should either be promptly removed or have credit addressed to the creator Lawatson. It has already been removed from Coolmathgames for the same cause, and should be followed up here as well.
Hi Kaleb,
I emailed the developer of this game about your comment. I added a comment in the above game review about the related games which came before Keydown: both the game you mentioned I Wanna Lockpick, and the related game before that one: I wanna KeyPick 100.
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“Keydown” uses 15 levels that it has directly stolen from the game “I Wanna Lockpick” found on Itch.io, it should either be promptly removed or have credit addressed to the creator Lawatson. It has already been removed from Coolmathgames for the same cause, and should be followed up here as well.
Plays’ Clone: https://plays.org/keydown/
Original Game: https://lawatson.itch.io/i-wanna-lockpick
Hi Kaleb,
I emailed the developer of this game about your comment. I added a comment in the above game review about the related games which came before Keydown: both the game you mentioned I Wanna Lockpick, and the related game before that one: I wanna KeyPick 100.