Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #7 - Maze

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This is the seventh Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has first refusal on the opportunity to create the next puzzle in the series, which must somehow incorporate the answer to this puzzle somewhere within its construction. The solver is under no obligation to create the next puzzle - in the event that the solver does not wish to take up this opportunity, the puzzle's setter may take up the offer of a willing substitute setter or choose to continue the chain themselves.
The answer to the previous puzzle (which provided the theme for this one) was MAZE.

I guess everyone knows what a maze is, a place where you are lost, no clue where to go. My mazes may not be that difficult, but if you don't do them blindfolded, you might hurt your eyes. Unless you are colorblind, but then you probably will have big trouble figuring out what the actual game to play is. Sorry about that.
As always, figure out the game hidden in the puzzle. Good luck.
Disclaimer: The mazes are not pixel perfect; that is due to my limited artistic ability (and because I could not restrain myself to wait till the weekend for some additional attention): no subtle hints are to be found. (an example: there is only one circle in m-purple in the red 3 by 5)
Entry hint:

:exit hint.
Late game hint:

Security Report
EverythingSecure Inc. has been hired by Mazes Inc. to investigate a security incident.
Background:
A document from Mazes Inc. has been circling on the internet. Although it seems a harmless draft not related to one of their product lines, they are afraid that it has to do with the soon to be released 3D-maze construction puzzles. There is no indication yet that the competition has got anything useful out of it, but the content of the document, as well as how it was leaked should be investigated.
Case 60345: Leakage of weird mazes sketch.
Finding 1, Secret: Clearance level green and higher only

Finding 2, Confidential: Clearance level black and higher only

Finding 3, Top secret: Clearance level purple and higher only

Finding 4, Top secret: Clearance level brown and higher only

decoded:

Finding 5, Secret: Clearance level green and higher only

Finding 6, Top secret: Clearance level yellow and higher only

decoded:

More and clearer hints:
Earlier construction hints:

Not stated earlier:

Earlier game finding hints:

Not stated earlier:

Stiv · Accepted Answer

Solved at last! The pieces of the maze should be put together like this:

We can then enter the maze through the 'l' in the red block and exit via the 'e' in the same block, spelling a message while we traverse the maze, which says:

Found as follows (dashed/dotted lines represent movement forward/back between layers, not all cells are part of the route):

Next, we need to derive the name of a 6-letter tabletop game from this maze construction. The way to do this is to notice that:

Then we must interpret some of the hints in the puzzle text and maze message to realise we are required to:

For example, if we re-colour the maze using its original cell colours like so:

...and focus solely on the black cells, we see the following:

Meanwhile, we can do the same in this plane for the green cells:

If we repeat the process for the other colours we can extract the following letters:

Of course, it is possible that with reflection/rotation the 'g' might actually be an 'e', while the 'u' might be an 'n' or a 'v'. However, there does exist a board game with a desert theme (as per an earlier hint) that uses these letters, which suggests that the solution to this puzzle, upon rearranging these letters, is:

NB Given the amount of flavour text to this puzzle it is likely that there are further 'Easter Eggs' or hints which point towards this solution (for instance, a reference to Algeria - the region in which this game is set) which I may have missed. Feel free to mention them in comments below if you find any!

Graylocke · Answer

So my initial guess may not be correct, however it could be:

Points in favour of my conclusion:

Also:

Points you may want to set against my solution:

I feel it is a good enough answer to maybe be true.. but I may be missing something that might line up more neatly!

Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #7 - Maze

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