Linelight
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.17.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 215 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was February 2021. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 10 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.17 BANGER line 44 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 2 ($1.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats AtmaSphere ($3.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data puts 69 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.8 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
69% start to 69% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
The mechanics for the game are really simple: you're a line of light, moving in a network. (I guess that would make it sort of a maze.) But there are various other mechanics, such as switches that can flip or move bridges, that gives it a lot of depth. I like the simplicity of a line here, since that means there is no question on whether you can sneakily get past a switch. It distills these kinds of puzzles to the...
Sweet little game with heartfelt storytelling; each level left me pensive yet smiling. I had a blast collecting all of the achievements. It is a game that is perfect for setting down and picking back up after a long or a rough day.
Neat little coordination / order-of-operations puzzler. I admit I'm a bit leery of real-time mechanics in a game like this, but I think overall the game is mostly reasonable with such things, even when they are the theme of certain rooms (e.g. dodging enemies that move on-the-beat of music). There have been many games that play with the concepts of "pressure plates", magnets, recording your own movements, etc. but I...
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Cite this score
Linelight scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/469790/linelightReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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