# VERY, VERY strong recommendation for a casual game. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 3, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005 "2017-06-03T14:43:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/1 "2017-06-03T14:43:25Z")
So I bought _ **Linelight** _ yesterday and have been playing it. It’s a casual game that is puzzle if it fits any genre,…but it’s EXTREMELY good. In fact, I’d say it was pretty much probably the BEST, MOST CLEVER, INGENIOUS, THOUGHTFUL **CASUAL** game I have ever played. It is extremely well done. The ways this game makes you think…the way some of the tricks and puzzles are implemented…it’s just done so amazingly well. I had to make a topic just for this one game, alone. Very strong recommendation for people to try it. I got it on the PS4, although it might be on other platforms. But anyway, if you are a fan of simplistic puzzlers…this is for you. It’s magnificent. The music is really good too. It cost ten bucks and, IMO, severely UNDERpriced at that. [Trailer here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQd62J1ZVX0)…although it doesn’t do the game justice. It is SO much more than that. I’m almost willing to buy copies of this game just to give them out so that people can experience it. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/2 "2017-06-03T15:04:37Z")
This game popped up on my “Just for you” tab. Watched the trailer and didn’t get it because I didn’t quite get what it was I was supposed to be doing. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/3 "2017-06-03T15:22:25Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > This game popped up on my “Just for you” tab. Watched the trailer and didn’t get it because I didn’t quite get what it was I was supposed to be doing. It appears to be get the white line (you) to the yellow diamond. [More gameplay here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQCgGheQC0). Looks pretty cool to me. I might have to pick it up. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/4 "2017-06-03T23:13:26Z")
Oh, no you don’t. The last time I took a game recommendation from you, I lost over a year. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/5 "2017-06-11T23:31:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Oh, no you don’t. The last time I took a game recommendation from you, I lost over a year. I personally would consider that a good thing. Games are what make me not sulk in existentialist dread. The longer a game can make me do that, the better. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/6 "2017-06-23T04:14:06Z")
Seems like every puzzle game has a point where it absolutely rips my brain out (and brain replacement is friggin’ _expensive_ these days), but I did watch most of the video. Looks like a somewhat milder version of The World’s Hardest Game. Meh. I might get it someday if it’s really cheap, but I’m definitely not setting the bar too high. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/7 "2017-06-23T21:59:02Z")
It’s not very hard, actually…and I think it will impress you more than you think it will. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/8 "2017-06-26T12:08:29Z")
Bought it, but didn’t realize it needed a remote. Do I need to get an Xbox system to play it? ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/9 "2017-06-26T21:23:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Bought it, but didn’t realize it needed a remote. Do I need to get an Xbox system to play it? [ul] It works fine on a keyboard. I don’t know why it recommends a controller. I guess maybe since some ways you move aren’t quite in the four cardinal directions but it knew what I wanted anyway. It certainly hasn’t rendered any of the puzzles unsolvable. [/ul] [ul] Even if you decide to go with a controller, PCs support controllers and gamepads, so all you would have to do is buy one of those, not an entire system. [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-very-strong-recommendation-for-a-casual-game/788005/10 "2017-06-26T21:27:51Z")
I got a controller for the PC on Amazon for under $20.