Games like The Line
If The Line is your kind of game, the closest matches are 11 Years Ago, Call of the Sea and Quern - Undying Thoughts — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Line: The line, is a game with puzzles integrated into the narrative. The story takes place in a dystopian future, where the sea level rose so much that it flooded most of the planet, thus collapsing societies.
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11 Years Ago
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
11 Years Ago is a puzzle-solving single player adventure game made with Unreal Engine 5 and it is the final project of the Red 32 team of BigRock School.
Call of the Sea
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.
Quern - Undying Thoughts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Line.
Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
The Berlin Apartment
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Luto
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Blue Prince
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Line fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Line at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Line on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Line on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Line.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Line on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Line on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Line.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Line on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Line.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Line.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Line.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Line.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Line.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Call of the Sea
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
The Berlin Apartment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Blue Prince
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Line.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Frequently asked about The Line
- How much does The Line cost?
- The Line is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Line?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Line are 11 Years Ago, Call of the Sea, Quern - Undying Thoughts.
- Who developed The Line?
- The Line was developed by Game Studio 148, Game Studio 148 and published by Game Studio 148.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Line.
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