Lines We Draw

Lines We Draw is a single-player, 3D isometric narrative strategy game set at a Cold War border checkpoint. As an inspector between the rival socialist states of Krasnograd and Holosztazska, you decide who may cross and who must stay behind. After years of brutal conflict, the borders are reopening, but distrust remains.

Inspect the travelers

Each day, travelers arrive: families seeking safety, smugglers carrying contraband, deserters, spies and ordinary workers caught between politics and survival. You inspect their documents, check names, dates, stamps, photos and permits, verify their stories, and decide whether to approve or deny their crossing. You can ask questions, request missing papers, and compare stories with faces.

Rules and pressure

Every day brings new orders and changing rules, while superiors judge your accuracy and loyalty. Political pressure mounts, the checkpoint grows tense, and the borders and daily environment change along with the political situation and weather. Your decisions weigh obedience to the regime against your conscience, and ordinary people remember whether you showed mercy or cruelty.

Choices and outcomes

Your judgments shape individual lives and can affect whether peace between the two states endures or collapses. You can become a hero of the people, a loyal instrument of the regime, or remain in the gray zone between. Treating people differently can lead to new endings, and the travelers you encounter have their own stories and consequences.

Encounters and style

The checkpoint brings you into contact with refugees, spies, smugglers, soldiers and desperate families. The game has a semi-realistic visual style inspired by socialist propaganda art and Cold War-era paintings.