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Broken Lines cover art

Broken Lines

BirdIsland/PortaPlay · SuperGG.com · 2020-02-25

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Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 25, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 25, 2020 (Linux), Feb 25, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 25, 2020 (Mac), Dec 14, 2022 (Xbox One), Dec 14, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S)

Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.

0
playing now
79%
positive of 700 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Dusk. An army transport plane crosses the red evening sky. Motor humming. Plane cargo hold, only light is a lazy wall mounted bulb. A team of soldiers are fast asleep despite the bumpy ride. Heads bounce on their shoulders. Suddenly the light turns off, everything is darkness. And then all motors give out. The plane silently drops. Soldiers, weapons, papers are thrown around in the cabin as everything turns vertical. The machine disappears behind treetops and a huge explosion follows. The few surviving soldiers wake up in the scattered, burning wreckages. As the soldiers gather, it turns out (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 5,954 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 700 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.87 at Fanatical (2024-11-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 23 of 38 observed days · $22.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.872020-02-252026-08-282020-02-25 — best price $24.992020-07-09 — best price $24.992020-09-21 — best price $17.492020-11-27 — best price $17.492021-01-18 — best price $16.242021-02-25 — best price $12.492021-05-03 — best price $12.492021-08-19 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $24.992021-12-13 — best price $14.992022-02-21 — best price $24.992022-04-25 — best price $7.492022-07-07 — best price $24.992022-08-22 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $6.242023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-05-08 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $4.992023-10-26 — best price $3.742024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-02-26 — best price $3.742024-04-15 — best price $3.742024-05-27 — best price $3.742024-07-29 — best price $3.742024-08-12 — best price $18.892024-11-01 — best price $3.742024-12-03 — best price $18.362025-01-12 — best price $24.992025-03-03 — best price $2.992025-04-28 — best price $3.742025-06-26 — best price $3.742025-08-22 — best price $18.362025-11-03 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $3.742026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-04-28 — best price $18.362026-06-24 — best price $2.872026-07-20 — best price $24.992026-08-28 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9551%79
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)904%44
PS5 (PlayStation)846%45
PS4 (PlayStation)297%45
PS4 (PlayStation)1010%45
Switch (Nintendo)20%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGWarWargameStrategyTop-DownHistoricalTurn-BasedPerma DeathSingleplayerTactical RPG

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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