Systems and methods for navigation-based games

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory, a wager for a play of a navigation game;
• causing, by the one or more processors, generation of a graphical user interface having a plurality of rows or columns, each of the plurality of rows or columns comprising a respective set of spaces, wherein each of the set of spaces corresponds to a respective space condition that causes a game state to be updated for the play of the navigation game, the respective space condition of a subset of the respective set of spaces comprising a termination condition that causes the play of the navigation game to terminate;
• receiving, by the one or more processors, input to initiate navigation of an icon to a target space of the respective set of spaces of a first row or a first column of the plurality of rows or columns;
• and
• determining, by the one or more processors, an updated game state for the play of the navigation game based on the respective space condition of the target space.