# 3.4. Pause the game

If you want to interrupt playing, select Pause/Continue from the Game-menu or hit the keyboard shortcut (see section Key Bindings ). Additionaly the game is paused when the game looses the keyboard focus, e.g. when switching to an other window.

If you want to continue the game, use again the menuitem Pause/Continue or the keyboard shortcut. If all human players press one of their direction keys, the game continues, too. But be careful, your player switches to this direction immediately.