Deadline

Deadline

Released Aug 2026

A precision puzzle-platformer where every move you make becomes permanent ink — solid walls your future self must route around. Plan each level like a single continuous pen stroke, dodge the Red Pen's corrections, and escape the page before you wall yourself in.

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Released
Jul 2026

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Developer
Publisher
Geared Games Studios
Achievements
39
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

About this game

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.

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