Deadline

Deadline is a puzzle game in which you play as a drop of living ink. As you move, you leave a solid, permanent line that becomes part of the level. You must plan a continuous route through each puzzle: your line can form ramps and ladders, divide rooms, and trap you if you draw without considering what comes next.

Draw your route

You can land on your own arcs, wall-jump off lines you have drawn and use falls to make ladders. The Pen Lift lets you dash without leaving a mark, but you can use it only once per level. When you fail, you can restart instantly and rethink your route.

Hazards and resets

The levels contain crosshatched spikes, strike-through lines and stamped X's. The Red Pen hunts anything that colors outside the lines, while solvent pools dissolve your ink. Fresh pages wipe the slate, giving you a way to clear your marks.

Levels and scoring

The game has more than 50 hand-inked, single-screen levels across notebook, graph paper and aged parchment. Each level scores your total stroke length, with medals rewarding the shortest, cleanest line rather than speed. After completing a level, you can see your run framed as a drawing; each player's solution creates a different picture. The world, including the lines you draw, has a hand-drawn pen-on-paper style.