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All 8 maps: zones, the tour and how to unlock them

In Endless and the Daily Drift a run tours the maps: every 400 points it moves on to another, and every 100 it changes zone. Here is how they are dealt, how they unlock and what each is made of.

Data taken from the game’s code · version 2.0 · Updated 29 September 2026

How the tour works

Each map lasts a leg of 400 points split into 4 zones of 100. At every 100-point milestone the colour turns, and the building (the walls) follows 50 points later, over a 10-second cross-fade.
The first stretch of every new map is a quiet gate, a breather to watch it arrive.
The next map is dealt from a shuffled deck: every map comes round before any comes twice, and none follows itself. The deck includes maps you have not reached yet — the tour is how you find them.
Most maps shuffle their zones too: every visit opens on its zone 1 and deals the other three in a new order. Classic and the Desert do not: their zones are a day, walked in order from morning to night. Classic has two days; a run’s first visit walks the first, later visits draw one.
A third of a map’s ordinary chunks are its own obstacles. And every leg brings its bosses or announced set pieces: the first 10–16 chunks after arriving, then one every 40–55 — about two a visit.

How they unlock

A new save has 3 maps: Classic, the Depot and the Aliens. The tutorial is on Classic.
Every other map unlocks the first time a run flies into it (on the tour) or when it is the Daily Drift’s map.
An Endless run opens on a map drawn from the ones you have, each equally likely. You never pick it. In Race you do pick, from the maps reached.
Halloween is seasonal: it flies only from 19 October to 8 November. Outside those dates no run opens on it or passes through it, but what you earned there stays.

The 8 maps at a glance

Map	Available	Own obstacles	Boss
Classic	From the start	crane	—
Halloween	19 Oct – 8 Nov	ghost	The Spectre
Foundry (hard)	Fly into it	—	The Rockfall
Depot	From the start	—	The Drone
Jungle	Fly into it	flytrap, vine	—
Glacier	Fly into it	ice floe	The Ice Wizard
Aliens	From the start	laser	The Saucer
Desert	Fly into it	vine, stone slab, pyramid	The Saguaro

Classic

The paper factory, as it always was.

Available: from the start
Girders of steel plate; in the air, dust.
Its own obstacles: crane.
It has announced set pieces: runs of its own obstacles back to back.
Boss: none
Its 8 figures

Zones, in order

Fold Line
Rivet Row
The Bellows
The Crease
Updraft
Slat & Shutter
The Bellows
The Crease

Day 1: zones 1–4. Day 2: zones 5–8.

Classic — The paper factory, as it always was. — The map’s picture in the game.

Halloween

Pumpkins at dusk, a crypt by midnight.

Available: only 19 October – 8 November
Girders of old wood; in the air, falling leaves.
Its own obstacles: ghost.
It has announced set pieces: runs of its own obstacles back to back.
Boss: The Spectre
Its 8 figures

Zones

Pumpkin Patch
Haunted Manor
Graveyard Fog
Witching Hour

Halloween — Pumpkins at dusk, a crypt by midnight. — The map’s picture in the game.

Foundry

Faster, denser, fewer breathers.

Available: the first time you fly into it
Girders of cast iron; in the air, embers.
The hard map. It adds 300 points to the difficulty table (it opens at tier 5), its breathers come every 7–9 chunks instead of 5–7, only 1 chunk in 10 is drawn easier (instead of 1 in 4) and the speed reaches its cap twice as fast. Same obstacles, same top speed.
Its own obstacles: none of the clock-driven kind; its own danger is the boss.
Boss: The Rockfall
Its 8 figures

Zones

Cinder Works
Slag Heap
Molten Core
Blackout

Foundry — Faster, denser, fewer breathers. — The map’s picture in the game.

Depot

Cardboard girders, stacked parcels, packing tape everywhere.

Available: from the start
Girders of cardboard; in the air, paper scraps.
Its own obstacles: none of the clock-driven kind; its own danger is the boss.
Boss: The Drone
Its 8 figures

Zones

Loading Dock
Parcel Stacks
Night Shift
Rainy Dispatch

Depot — Cardboard girders, stacked parcels, packing tape everywhere. — The map’s picture in the game.

Jungle

An old greenhouse the vines took back.

Available: the first time you fly into it
Girders of mesh; in the air, fireflies.
Its own obstacles: flytrap, vine.
It has announced set pieces: runs of its own obstacles back to back.
Boss: none
Its 8 figures

Zones

Canopy
Monsoon
Orchid Dusk
Firefly Night

Jungle — An old greenhouse the vines took back. — The map’s picture in the game.

Glacier

Girders of ice under the northern lights.

Available: the first time you fly into it
Girders of ice; in the air, snow.
Its own obstacles: ice floe.
It has announced set pieces: runs of its own obstacles back to back.
Boss: The Ice Wizard
Its 8 figures

Zones

Frost Line
Aurora
Blizzard
Polar Night

Glacier — Girders of ice under the northern lights. — The map’s picture in the game.

Aliens

Purple halls, dripping slime, specimens in jars — and a saucer that wants you.

Available: from the start
Girders of hex-plated alloy; in the air, falling slime.
Its own obstacles: laser.
Boss: The Saucer
Its 8 figures

Zones

Ooze Deck
Specimen Bay
Abduction
Deep Space

Aliens — Purple halls, dripping slime, specimens in jars — and a saucer that wants you. — The map’s picture in the game.

Desert

Sandstone from dawn to starlight, vines that snag — and a cactus that throws.

Available: the first time you fly into it
Girders of layered sandstone; in the air, blowing sand.
Its own obstacles: vine, stone slab, pyramid. The sliding slabs and pyramids only come from the afternoon on (200 points into the leg).
Boss: The Saguaro
Its 8 figures

Zones, in order

Dawn Dunes
High Noon
Golden Hour
Desert Night

Desert — Sandstone from dawn to starlight, vines that snag — and a cactus that throws. — The map’s picture in the game.

See it for yourself

Paper Drift is free on iPhone and Android.