In Blast Chamber players compete to escape from a series of chambers before they're blown to bits. During solo mode play through forty stages that progressively get harder as they advance. In multi-player mode up to four players can compete in two different games: to be the first out of a series of chambers and a time limit game in which the player who dies the least number of times wins. Every mode tosses players into an arena with enough explosives strapped to their back to blow them sky high. Escape depends on gaining control of a crystal found in every room that can be used to buy extra time to live or to deplete an enemy's time to live as you encounter spikes, lava pits, plasma clouds, and laser streams.