Lifeline

released on Apr 20, 2015

Lifeline is a text-based adventure game. The main character's space ship crashed and it is up to the player to help the character survive and escape the unknown planet by using text message conversations.


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I chose to play this because I wanted to see what kind of story games are on Apple Arcade. It started out perfectly fine but holy crap does it just get soo boring. The dialogue is just uninteresting and drawn out, and the entire game is just dialogue, so that sucks. The story is not compelling at all and probably at least 50% of the choices are the same thing. For example, you can choose to say "What happened?" or "Are you okay?", and both those choices mean the exact same thing. It really made me angry for the entire second half of this game and I really had to slog through it.

It’s simple just a text message based game with a simple story.

The game that made me realize I am terrible at giving advice from a young age

It’s nice and polished visually, and the story starts off good and interesting.. it’s just that after a while.. it’s not that interesting and fun to play and read with pretty much no huge outcomes from the choices you make or at least with some serious impact.

There's one interesting moment in here, early on: Taylor, stranded on an alien planet and presumably wearing a spacesuit with "I'm Fluent In Sarcasm" written on the front, asks you whether it's safe to stay in the mildly radioactive ship overnight. How do you know if it is? Well, you google it, of course. You're asked to do that fairly directly, and you get some good results about what dosages are lethal to humans before the results turn into walkthroughs for this game.

All of the most interesting moments are early on. The game gives the impression of being written entirely in order. Any tough decisions are near the beginning. The middle turns the choices into "Progress" and "Not Progress." By the end your only options are different ways of saying "What's happening?"

This is apparently a lengthy series and I genuinely can't tell if it has a really dedicated fandom or if the devs wrote their own fan wiki. Either way, I won't be continuing. I cannot overstate how much I disliked Taylor. Started intentionally leading them to danger very quickly and had to consult a walkthrough to get the good ending.

literally replaying this game while i download the new one. i've missed taylor sooooo much, augh <3