LYNE
BANGER · Short indie · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.18/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 8,252
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Short indie
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.6h
- To 100%
- 18.6h 1.1x the story
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 June 2014
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 22% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! S ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Oik 3 ($0.72, scores 72).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $20.99.
More about LYNE
This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,807 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I ended up keeping the game open for a long time in the background of my pc, it didn't really take me 472 hours to complete the puzzles... In any case though, this game is a very nice puzzle game, and for only like $2, would recommend.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game takes one idea - draw lines through the nodes, visiting each node the required number of times - and explores it to the end. There are 650 levels (26 × 25) to solve! It did feel like a huge amount of work to plow through. But at the same time, the sheer volume gave me space to develop a "feel" for solving these puzzles - something I maybe wouldn't have happened if the game consisted only of hand-made...
The idea is good, but the overall game is not. Puzzles have more than one solution, so guesswork is part of the game. You can do some reasoning, but it only helps to make an educational guess. Levels repeat themselves, so the game feels like a chore. If the game introduces new mechanics every 15 levels and if the levels have unique solutions, it can be great. The general look and sound of the game are good. I would...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB Graphics Card, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LYNE scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266010/lyneReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.