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Flatline is a single player hack and slash game with fantasy and science fiction themes. It was developed by T-Hex and was released on February 19, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Play as Scarlett, a freelance cyborg ninja, in a neon city filled with corporate drones. Use her top of the line sword and bio enhancements to dash throughout the city and chain your dashes through drones. Make sure to watch your health, too many mistakes and you might Flatline.

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76%Audience ScoreBased on 17 reviews
graphics4 positive mentions
grinding1 negative mentions

  • Unique and fun platformer gameplay with interesting dash and attack mechanics.
  • Good atmosphere and aesthetic style, with nice graphics fitting a cyberpunk theme.
  • Free to play and relatively short, making it an accessible experience for a quick play session.
  • Numerous technical issues including bugs, lag, and unstable performance on lower-end computers.
  • Controls are unintuitive and can be awkward, especially with the jump and dash mechanics.
  • Level design can be tedious and frustrating, particularly sections requiring precise climbing and platforming.
  • graphics

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 30% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The game features generally nice and aesthetically pleasing graphics with a modern, fast-paced feel, though some minor issues like janky character animation and occasional graphical bugs are noted. The visuals suit the game's simple, fun style and reflect impressive student work within limited development time. However, customization options for graphics settings are lacking.

    • “The graphics are nice; the main character looks a bit janky while Naruto running, but for students making a game in a short period of time it looks pretty phenomenal.”
    • “Fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on.”
    • “Very nice graphics.”
    • “I encountered some difficulty starting the game with graphical bugs, relying on fluffeypanda to find the UI where there was none, but playing the game with an invisible player and enemies could only go so far as the first level.”
    • “Can't change graphics.”
    • “What I want to know is how DigiPen found game dev students who had never seen video games before and never thought to question it when DigiPen told them that Nvidia and AMD were fictional businesses and there's no such thing as a '3D graphics card', and also that Wolfenstein 3D is also not real and no, they never played it because it's just a conspiracy to try to prevent game developers from making 2D games, which are the only games that exist.”
  • gameplay

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Gameplay receives mixed feedback, with some players finding the dash mechanic enjoyable and engaging in fast-paced combat, while others experience frame rate issues and feel the controls are awkward, detracting from smooth and fluid movement.

    • “This is a pretty fun game. The main portion of it is using the dash mechanic to accomplish some really cool bullet hell/mass murder of robots, which is entertaining as heck.”
    • “Once I was instructed into tight channels with precise jumps, the frame rate issues started to bear their fangs on me, but the endgame difficulty was luckily more relegated to the bullet time mechanic.”
    • “Maybe this is just me being an ancient gamer who's so long internalized 8- and 16-bit controller aspects that I'm out of touch, but the unnatural-feeling controls made some gameplay awkward and impeded a sense of smoothness, speed, and flowing movement that I suspect the devs had originally intended for Flatline.”
  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music features a diverse range of sample rates that contribute to a crunchy, flash game-like aesthetic, complementing the game's simple yet enjoyable atmosphere.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The grinding in the game is described as extremely tedious, making progression feel repetitive and monotonous.

    • “They are extremely tedious levels.”
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Flatline is a hack and slash game with fantasy and science fiction themes. Common tags for Flatline include free to play, 2d, linear and cyberpunk.

Flatline is available on PC and Windows.

Flatline was released on February 19, 2021.

Flatline was developed by T-Hex.

Flatline has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Flatline for its graphics but disliked it for its music.

Flatline is a single player game.

Similar games include Sect-Machina, Green Reaper, The Rabbit's Scroll, The Lost Mythologies, Evergate: Ki's Awakening and others.