Outline

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Outline is a single player action game. It was developed by XiNFiNiTY Games and was released on March 23, 2018. It received negative reviews from players.

Outline is a addictive puzzle game where you draw a line hunting for colored dots.

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Single-Player

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31%

Audience ScoreBased on 13 reviews

gameplay3 positive mentions

music3 negative mentions

The game features a unique mechanic of drawing lines to interact with colored dots, providing an interesting puzzle experience.
With 100 challenging levels, the game offers a fair level of difficulty that encourages ingenuity and problem-solving.
For fans of geometric and motion puzzles, the game can be enjoyable and worth a purchase despite its flaws.

The game suffers from a lack of a tutorial, making it difficult for players to understand the mechanics and objectives.
There are significant UI issues, including buttons going off-screen and a lack of a seamless transition to the next level after completion.
The repetitive music and aggravating gameplay, combined with the low effort in development, detract from the overall experience.

gameplay
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
50%
The gameplay of Outline features a unique mechanic where players draw slashes to slice through colored orbs, offering an interesting concept. However, the lack of a tutorial, poor user interface, and repetitive level design detract from the overall experience, making it feel more like a proof of concept than a fully developed puzzle game.
- “Outline is an interesting puzzle game with, at least from my perspective, a fairly unique mechanic of drawing slashes that you then send across the screen in some capacity to slice through various colored orbs.”
- “It's quite a neat mechanic, but ultimately it boils down to much the same method of completing each level.”
- “It's a nice proof of concept for a single mechanic, but that mechanic should probably be one small part of a bigger, better puzzler.”
- “Interesting idea but no tutorial, terrible UI, annoying music, aggravating gameplay.”
- “It's quite a neat mechanic but ultimately it boils down to much the same method of completing each level.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
The music in the game is generally considered annoying and overly repetitive, leading many players to turn it off quickly, though accessing the options to do so can be cumbersome. Additionally, the music stops and restarts with each level load, further detracting from the experience. Overall, the soundtrack fails to enhance gameplay and is viewed as a negative aspect by users.
- “The music is okay, but extremely repetitive; you'll stop it quite quickly (which is actually more complicated than it should be: you only get access to the options after finishing a level).”
- “Don't rely on its extremely repetitive single piece of music either.”
- “Music stops and restarts on every level load.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The emotional aspect of the game is largely absent, as players find the gameplay to be repetitive and lacking in depth, reducing the experience to a simple task of clearing colored balls without any significant emotional engagement or narrative.
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Reviewers criticize Xinfinity games for their unethical monetization practices, highlighting a pattern of exploiting others' work on Steam for quick profits, which they perceive as a cheap cash grab.
- “XInfinity Games has shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab.”