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Black Lime Studio · 2016-08-16

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 16, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.

0
playing now
78%
positive of 345 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.6k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 345 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.49-51%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2023-01-07) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.282015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $2.992016-11-01 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-01-27 — best price $0.992017-06-02 — best price $0.492017-08-11 — best price $0.492017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-01-05 — best price $0.492018-03-09 — best price $0.492018-06-21 — best price $0.492018-10-05 — best price $0.492018-11-21 — best price $0.492019-02-23 — best price $0.492019-06-26 — best price $0.492019-09-20 — best price $0.492019-11-15 — best price $0.492020-01-10 — best price $0.492020-05-01 — best price $0.492020-08-21 — best price $0.492020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-02-05 — best price $0.492021-05-28 — best price $0.492021-07-23 — best price $0.492021-11-12 — best price $0.492022-03-04 — best price $0.492022-07-21 — best price $0.492022-10-14 — best price $0.492023-01-07 — best price $0.282023-04-30 — best price $0.292023-10-31 — best price $0.492024-07-01 — best price $0.492025-08-31 — best price $0.492025-11-18 — best price $0.492026-02-19 — best price $0.492026-04-04 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-08-25 — best price $0.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

AnimeIndiePuzzleRelaxingStrategySingleplayerFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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