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Puzzle - LINES AND KNOTS

PlayToday · 2020-03-05

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Logical puzzle game for meditation. The goal of the player is to assemble a puzzle consisting of nodes. Easy to understand mechanics, swap hexagons with lines.

87%
positive of 260 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 30,532 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.2k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 260 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.79-22%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-07-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 25 of 28 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420202026Week of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.002020-03-202026-10-132020-03-20 — best price $0.002020-05-19 — best price $3.992020-07-20 — best price $0.992020-10-19 — best price $0.892020-12-22 — best price $4.492021-01-19 — best price $4.992021-04-26 — best price $2.992021-09-13 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-02-21 — best price $1.792022-05-17 — best price $1.992022-08-27 — best price $0.892022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-02-13 — best price $2.992023-05-31 — best price $2.392023-08-09 — best price $2.992023-11-15 — best price $4.992024-02-02 — best price $3.742024-05-04 — best price $3.742024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-09-25 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $3.892025-05-26 — best price $4.992025-09-01 — best price $3.892025-10-29 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.892026-03-17 — best price $4.992026-06-01 — best price $3.892026-07-13 — best price $1.572026-10-01 — best price $7.792026-10-13 — best price $7.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
91.8%
earned "Level 1 Complete"
18.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

40 supported languages: English, German, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Japanese, French, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Thai…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-04-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)64630%13

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

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleMatch 3RelaxingDifficultMinimalistMouse only

Census log

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

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