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Deadline

Deadline cover art
Developer
Orikazi
Publisher
Geared Games Studios
Released
Aug 22, 2026
Tags
CasualIndieStrategy
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About this game

The developer's description, from the game's Steam store page.

YOU ARE THE LEVEL

You are a drop of living ink, and everywhere you go, you leave a line. Not a pretty trail effect — a wall. Solid, permanent, and entirely your fault.

Jump a gap and you've drawn a ramp you can land on later. Fall down a shaft and you've split the room in two. Grab that shiny collectible without thinking, and congratulations: you've inked yourself into a corner with no way out. In DEADLINE, every level is solvable — but only if you plan your entire path like a single, continuous pen stroke.

DRAW YOUR WAY OUT

  • Your past is the architecture. Land on your own arcs, wall-jump off your own mistakes, knit ladders out of your falls.
  • One gap in the stroke. The Pen Lift lets you dash without drawing — once. Where you choose not to leave a mark is the whole puzzle.
  • Think first, execute second. Deaths teach routing, not reflexes. When you fail, it won't be your thumbs — it'll be that beautiful prison you built for yourself.

BEWARE THE RED PEN

The page fights back. Crosshatched spikes, strike-through lines, and stamped X's — every hazard is an editor's correction mark, and the Red Pen itself hunts anything that colors outside the lines. Solvent pools dissolve your ink. Fresh pages wipe the slate. Use them, or drown in your own handwriting.

ELEGANCE IS THE HIGH SCORE

You're not graded on speed. You're graded on ink. Every level scores your total stroke length — the shortest, cleanest line takes the gold. Finish a level and see your entire run framed as a single drawing: your solution, signed and hung on the wall. No two players draw the same picture.

  • 50+ hand-inked levels across notebook, graph paper, and aged parchment
  • A stroke-length medal system that rewards elegance over reflexes
  • Instant restarts, single-screen puzzles, zero filler
  • A living pen-on-paper art style where the whole world is hand-drawn — including by you

Solve it like a puzzle. Execute it like a speedrun. Frame it like art.

System requirements

As Steam lists them.

Windows

Minimum

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor
Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-4300 or equivalent
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Intel HD 4000 or equivalent, DirectX 11 compatible
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
500 MB MB available space

Recommended

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 10/11 64-bit
Processor
Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or equivalent
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
GeForce GTX 750 / Radeon RX 460 or equivalent
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
500 MB available space

Downloadable content

Steam lists 2 items of downloadable content for this game.

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