The Line

The Line is a narrative game with integrated puzzles, set in a near future where a sudden rise in sea levels has flooded most of the land and caused social collapse. You play as a scout investigating what happened to line 14, a team that disappeared while searching abandoned cities for survivors and supplies.

The search for line 14

Survivors formed small teams called lines to find people among the remains of abandoned cities, prepare them and take them to the few areas the water had not reached, where they could form communities. Each line was planned to have three members: a leader, a safety officer and a health worker. After some lines vanished without a trace, explorers were sent to recover their supplies and discover what happened to them.

You follow the path line 14 took before it disappeared, across six chapters. To make progress, you find parts of the story that contain keys to solving the puzzles, and you need to pay close attention to what you read.

Puzzles

The game contains four highly difficult puzzles.