The Line

Це як коротка вистава, окрім як дивитись тут майже нічого робити не треба.

It's charming, but not a real game. It's not worth the full price to me.

A short narrative/story which lets you watch things play out across a beautiful little diorama that is set out around you. There are several interaction points but they are fixed elements which block the story until you push/pull/twist them. Not interesting from a 'game' perspective, but they do add to the feeling of watching an intricate automata running in front of you. The story is sweet. Nice narration and pretty graphics. If you have already enjoyed the free narrative titles on Steam (eg. Invasion!, or the Google Spotlight Stories) then this isn't a bad example of a paid equivalent, but as ever, given the run time, you are paying to support the artists rather than to maximise 'play' time. If you do want to get into more narrative experiences then you might also want to look into some of the longer running titles such as Gloomy Eyes. Or even something like The Invisible Hours which lets you experience a story whilst roaming freely around a mansion! The one thing I kind of wish The Line did (in that I was expecting it to happen but it didn't) was that I was expecting that you would actively end up reshaping the narrative by changing the order of the interactions thus causing different events to play out across the diorama. It's a shame that you are only ever given a single point of interaction to continue because being actually caught in a loop until you figure out how to disrupt it would have both been a fun puzzle to play through as well as supporting the story being told.