Grade: A
Relaxing puzzle game with gorgeous UI
Lyne is a puzzle game with surprising complexity but never feels impossible. It’s best played with a touchscreen, though it works fine with a mouse.
The player of this game just connects two points in space, but there are a bunch of puzzly things you need to do in between. The “lines” can’t cross over each other unless you have a double block. Even then, you must carefully manage which order you do what in. It starts where you’re flying through the levels but quickly becomes a real thinker.
Intuitive UI
It’s one of those User Interfaces that you know took a lot of work just by how smooth and crisp everything is. It feels like tracing a line with a pencil on a piece of paper, which I’m sure is hard to accomplish. There are also little satisfying flashes when you complete a level, excellent ambient music, and it’s easy to backtrack your choices and reset.
Never-ending puzzling
On top of the base game, there are daily procedurally generated levels you get for free once you get through the first 50 levels. If you like this puzzler to keep yourself mentally sharp, then there’s a never-ending combination of puzzling.
The kids and I had a lot of fun fiddling with this last week and got through the C levels together (50-75). We had it installed on two different devices and worked through the levels together.
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