Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 05:20 pm
Linelight – Puzzle Game Review
Linelight is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Adventure game from Brett Taylor, first launched in 27th July 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 989+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Linelight Stand Out
Linelight is an elegant, minimalist puzzle game set in a universe of lines. Its puzzles will awake your mind as the music flows through your body, gifting you a soft, relaxing euphoria. Linelight is for players of any age or level of experience.
**ANYONE CAN PLAY**
Movement is your only interaction. Whether you’ve played hundreds of games or this is your first, Linelight will provide you an intuitive and rewarding experience.
**RICH CONTENT**
Traverse through 6 worlds and over 200 unique puzzles, each new world loaded with variety and depth, a curious series of discoveries and surprise. A feast awaits any players looking for secrets and greater challenges.
**SOOTHING MUSIC**
Prepare to be soothed and energized, wrapped in a blanket of calm and focus, whisked away by a soundtrack that will open your eyes and relax your entire body.
**IMMERSIVE STORY**
You’ll make long-term friends along your journey. You’ll learn how to cooperate and overcome obstacles together. You will develop a relationship with bars of light without exchanging a word.
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**QUOTES**
“Finding a game like Linelight feels like a blessing.” - GameSpot
“Linelight is nothing short of a stroke of genius.” - Hardcore Gamer (9/10)
“Bursting with design smarts… For a chilled puzzling time, they don’t get much better than this.” - Rock Paper Shotgun
“Pure, unadulterated gameplay.” - Polygon
“A crowning achievement in the puzzle genre… An unforgettably unique gaming experience.” - OPNoobs (9/10)
“Ingenious… The amount of times I said to myself ‘Ooh, that’s clever!’ was too numerous to count.” - God is a Geek (9/10)
“It’s difficult to fully explain the feelings Linelight’s soundtrack evokes… For me, it was a mixture of peaceful relaxation and the inspirational desire to go out into the world and succeed in life.” - OPNoobs
“My Dog Zorro has knocked it out of the park with this deceptively simple and deep puzzler… Linelight is not to be missed.” - PlayStation Universe (10/10)
“Linelight left me stunned by its sights and sounds.” - Video Chums (8.2/10)
“One of the most addictive puzzle experiences that I've ever played… [and] one of the best indie puzzlers ever made.” - Video Chums (8.2/10)
“Through intuitive level design and a steady difficulty ramp, Linelight is able to punch far above its weight class.” - DualShockers (9/10)
“One of the freshest puzzle experiences to grace the genre in recent years.” - The Sixth Axis (8/10)
“Within about eight seconds, it’s clear what you have to do, and there’s one word for it: lovely.” - Video Gamer
**ACCOLADES**
Game of the Year - Winner - Gameacon 2016
Rising Pixel - Winner - Bit Awards 2016
Best Style - Nominee - Bit Awards 2016
Best PC/Console Game - Nominee - Bit Awards 2016
IndieCade @ E3 2016 - Official Selection
PAX East Indie Minibooth 2016 - Official Selection
Different Games Conference 2016 - Official Selection
Sheep’s Meow 2016 - Official Selection
IndieCade 2016 - Game Tasting Spotlight Selection
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
## Player Feedback
As a newer release, Linelight is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
## Recent Updates & Development
**Latest Update:** 17th July 2022
Recent improvements include:
Two big changes! Added dithering for banding (aka game looks 150% more beautiful), and rebalanced every single level in the game to make it easier to play (aka less frustration, more joyful puzzle-loving)!
## Download & Availability
Linelight is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
**[Get Linelight on App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/linelight/id1231634915?uo=4&at=11l7vU)**
**Requirements:** Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
## Player Experience Highlights
**Community Insight:**
This game is a must-download It's a great way to start your morning, with a little puzzle and some delicate music, so put your sound on! The graphics are sweet and the game is perfectly challenging. We recommend to anyone who enjoys a puzzle.
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This is a terrific puzzle game! Please add new levels.
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This game keeps introducing new ideas and has a good and enjoyable learning curve. Normally we find we're not good at puzzles in games but this game effectively teaches you in such a natural and encouraging way. Holding much of the same value, it reminds us of Zelda games in how it introduces ideas at the right pace and builds upon them.
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We cant begin to describe how much we love this game! Its visually beautiful, the color scheme is calming, the music is enchantingly peaceful, and the puzzles are so much fun for an overactive brain like ours. We love that it doesnt ever feel repetitive or mundane and keeps you absolutely engaged the whole time. Its an easy game to hyper fixate on, and easily quiets a busy mind. The characters you meet also somehow managed to make us grow an emotional attachment even though theyre lines lol. The ending literally made us cry and Im mildly ashamed to admit that. Such a good game, Ive played through it at least three times over the course of several years. We always delete it when done and come back to it after a long time just to experience the magic all over again.
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What can we say, the music takes us back to our childhood.
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An absolute delight from start to finish.
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Theres just some games that come out that become instant classics and go down in history and we truly believe this is one of them. A game doesnt have to be overly complex to be good and this one has just the right mix of simple design, control and challenge.
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Amazing means amazing. Its smart, mesmerizing, witty, exciting and relaxing and what else ? Its amazing.
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This is hands down one of the best games Ive played on iPhone. The puzzles are interesting, there is a good mixture of difficult and enjoyable levels, and the music created a nice ambiance. Overall, a great journey into Linelight world (more like 6 worlds plus an epilogue and two extra worlds). Highly recommend! On a separate note, this game reminded us of Monument Valley, not in terms of the gameplaythey are completely different. However, the music and style certainly bear some resemblance for us. Check it out too if you enjoy good indie games for iPhone.
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We absolutely love this game- its half effortless and just challenging enough. And the music and sounds are very happy and pleasing. Im finding a glitch in world 3 with the tails. If we get something wrong a few times our tail grow and grows and we cant seem to get rid of it. Its locking us up in the world. Is an update needed? Right now Im stuck on that geometric 4 leaf clover with the red lights with tails... Our tail just keeps growing.
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Just got done with our first ride through, and the game cleverly guided us here to leave some feedback. It is beautiful. So relaxing, charming, and very good fun. We were looking for something to wind down with at the end of another day of quarantine, and this really hits the mark. The music and sound effects are wonderfully serene. Will be spending many more evenings relaxing with this.
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It has a rating system integrated into the game.
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Fun game; some levels are challenging, but the game is very enjoyable.
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We really love this game! The only thing we actually dislike, is the forced rating towards the end of the first level. Its tolerable tho, we guess, seeing as how we would forget because we only have a few minutes at a time to play. But that part really is tolerable.
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This is the first game app Ive ever spent money on!! And we have NO regrets. Its easy to follow, easy to play for 2 minutes or 2 hours. Its perfect! We love it.
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We love this game. It's relaxing and challenging but doesn't ever leave us wanting to throw our phone out the window. Gameplay is very smooth and visually pleasing. The puzzles get progressively more difficult and make you think more linear. Fantastic game! We wish we could find more like it. Our ONLY gripe is that sometimes you can mess up a set-up to a puzzle and the game won't reset that area. We've completely started from the beginning a few times. That's pretty frustrating. This would be a 5 star rating, otherwise.
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Our reflexes arent quite fast enough. The puzzles and play were pretty amazing, but there should be options for those of us who arent into perfect-timed races. Update - cant get past level three. Why not make an easy version without split second timing and super sensitive controls.
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Like the game, the puzzles, but we are uncomfortable with having to control our play with our finger on a screen and needing exacting movement. Action gamers would probably have that issue.
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We beat world 4 then exited the app right after. When we returned, we were put back at the beginning of the last level on world 4. But everything was already completed, so we could leave the start of the level, and am now soft-locked. We dont want to delete the app and lose all our progress, but we dont know what else to do. This is 1 Star till fixed. Easy 5 star without the soft lock.
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We found this game very enjoyable and sunk a lot of hours into it. Easily worth a cup of coffee. We wont lie to you there are parts that are very difficult and require a lot of lateral thinking, but that is something we enjoy. We also loved that there were, surprisingly, hidden areas which gave us an incentive to explore. We never got stuck for longer than a couple minutes and everything is solvable if you experiment. The map is very helpful and well-designed, and we really appreciate that it shows the secret areas in general but leave them for you to find. We honestly wish there were more puzzle games like this that focus less on fancy graphics and more on spectacular puzzles. Thats not to say we didnt enjoy the graphics because we thought they were beautiful, but its clear they invested a lot of energy into creating high-quality puzzles. Thanks again developers.
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Really good game! There are so many possibilities for this type of puzzles.
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A very relaxing, unique puzzler.
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We love quirky little puzzle games and this exactly fits the bill. Great ambiance, controls are good, unique and fun gameplay. Love it.
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Someone put some serious thought into this game. Great fun to play.
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The music by itself is amazing. The gameplay is simple but allows for a huge diversity of challenges. The playful atmosphere makes death not feel like a penalty, you just... Try again. Its therapeutic.
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Love this game! Beautiful game with amazing graphics and music. Thank you developers.
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Youd spend at least this much at an arcade as a kid (or at least we did). But now you get lots more time with a wonderful creative puzzle game, with lovely music. One of the best.
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One of our all time favorite games... We didnt think anything could trump monument valley but this is seriously on par with it and many more levels/puzzles. Plus the soundtrack is fabulous. Im happy. Wish we could give more stars.
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We originally played this on PC and when we saw that it was on the App Store, we had to get it. This is a fun little puzzle game that is perfect to play in short bursts or immerse yourself in for hours. The music is excellent and creates a sense of relaxation. Our only complaint is that the controls feel a bit odd at first, but you get used to them. Give it a shot.
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Absolutely love this game. Best game Ive played in a while. Puzzles can be moderately challenging at times.
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It keeps surprising us and the music is wonderful! The way it entices you to rate it is clever and fun. Right up there with Monument Valley. So glad it found us.
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This game is amazing, its peaceful, the music is so serene, and itll take you to another world.
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A wonderful concept for a puzzler that works great on iOS. Controls take seconds to understand and the puzzles build progressively. Easy to get into and very compelling to play. Occasional difficulty with input but more likely due to our really old iPad2. We adapted and corrected very quickly. Highly recommended.
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Minimalist and challenging and easy on the eyes. Great work.
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Great game-sound,visuals, and game mechanics work together to create an engrossing experience. Recent update allows you to adjust the sensitivity of the controls, which was an issue for some people.
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We use this game to sharpen and hold our perceptual and concentration skills.
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Surprisingly satisfied after finishing the first level. We love it.
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Linelight is pure genius. There is no words to describe this game. This app is the greatest app we ever downloaded.
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Adictive and so well put together in its simplicity and pleasant play time. Great job.
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We just started playing this game. The music and sound effects are match the mood and gameplay perfectly. The gameplay is smooth and satisfying. The puzzles are fun and, in a way, beautifully designed This is a game everyone should give a shot at least once.
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It's a tranquil soothing but thoroughly enjoyable puzzle game.
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A fun filled puzzle game with lights and lines. Sounds simple but it'll entertain you for quite some time and have you rethink the way you approach lines, movement and critical timing.
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Music is great, good way to chill for a few minutes.
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Its true this is a beautiful game. Its also true that the controls are iffy. But one thing is for sure, the developer has his heart in the right place and we trust he will make things work even better on the next update. There is plenty to explore that doesnt need precise controls so its easily worth the money.
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Starts off as a soothing and relatively pleasant puzzle experience throughout most of the game. We enjoyed the last few minutes of the day to the soothing music and gameplay of worlds 1-5. Finally, world 6 was nothing but. The timing required to solve the puzzles with the ridiculous recording feature were very meticulous to time just perfectly, even if you knew the solution to the puzzle. It was that tedious, often ending up in countless attempts to do the same solution which ultimately was the correct one. Became frustrating towards the end, and for whatever reason, we couldnt finish the solution to world 6 because of a software glitch, thus preventing us from obtaining that completion achievement. Lots of potential, but after world 5, it was more of a headache and we just wanted to yank the bandaid off and move on.
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But It is very hard to finely control your line. Making quick turns, stopping at just the right point - its difficult and frustrating. We want the puzzles to be difficult, not the controls. If this were better, it would be a big winner.
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We enjoy puzzles like this, but the controls are so sensitive that it jumps into all the wrong places, so you have to tense your muscles to hold it from jumping. Stressful interface, really poor. Also not finding the puzzles to be particularly interesting.
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Good work. What a pleasant joy to control.
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This game combines a lot of puzzle game aspects into one simple and extremely amusing game. Im still playing after having this when it came out, and we really would like to see more new content like this.
_User feedback from Apple App Store_
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**App Details**
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Size:** 101.50 MB
- **iOS:** 11.0 or later
- **Languages:** EN
- **Content Advisory:**
- **Developer:** [Brett Taylor](http://linelightgame.com)
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*Last updated: 17th July 2022* | *Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment* | *Developer: Brett Taylor*