Writing about DEADLINE?

DEADLINE is a precision puzzle-platformer where you never stop drawing. Your character, a small ink blob, leaves a permanent line wherever it goes, and that line dries into solid floor, wall and ceiling. Jump a gap that’s too wide and the arc you drew becomes the bridge; stack arcs up a wall and climb them like a ladder; leave a line across a pressure plate to hold a door open behind you.

Each page is solved like a pen puzzle — one continuous stroke from the start to the inkwell — and scored on ink used, not time. Walling yourself in is the only way to fail, and restarts are instant, so every mistake teaches routing rather than reflexes.

Fifty campaign pages across five kinds of paper introduce switches, springs, paper planes, solvent pools, crumbling floors, the Proofreader that rides your line, and the Red Pen that writes back. Seasonal chapters, a level editor with Steam Workshop publishing, weekly leaderboards and online ink races for up to four players keep the pages turning.

Features

• Your trail is the level: one continuous stroke of ink you walk on, climb and route around.
• Scored on ink, not time, with medals for beating each page’s ink par.
• 50 campaign pages in five chapters, plus 8 B-Side remixes and the One Sitting mode.
• Two seasonal events in every copy: The Midnight Page (20 pages) and The Harvest Page (10 pages open now, 10 more opening daily from November 17).
• A level editor with the whole toolbox, Steam Workshop publishing and remixing.
• Online ink races for up to four players, and Ink vs Eraser duels.
• All-time and weekly leaderboards on every page.
• The Pen Case: inks, style pages and accessories for your blob.
• Rewind, instant restart, and assist options for extra pen lifts and gentler hazards.