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Lineguard is a small, independent game about one idea: you can't control the hero, only the world around him.

The idea

A little ink ninja runs on his own across a painted world, and you can't steer him. All you can do is draw. Every line you sketch is solid for a few seconds: put one in front of an arrow and it stops, tilt it and the arrow flies back at the archer who shot it, lay one under his feet and he runs across a pit. That one rule is the whole game, and everything else in it, the inks, the bosses, the worlds, is there to make you use it in a new way.

Three ways to play

• Run is the drawing game: an endless run through eight worlds and nine bosses, as far as you can take him.
• Fight puts the pen down: waves of enemies, your bare hands, four warlords and six ultimates.
• Duel is one on one against another player, live, best of three.

How it's made

Everything you see is drawn by the game itself as it runs, in a sumi-e ink style: the ninja, the archers, the mountains, the lines you draw, even the music is made in your browser. That keeps the whole game small enough to start in a moment, and it means there's nothing to download. It works in any modern browser, on phones and computers, and once you've visited it keeps working offline. On Android it can also be installed as an app.

There are no accounts. Your progress stays on your device, and if you want a copy, Cloud save in Settings keeps it under a short code you can bring back on another phone. The privacy page lists exactly what the game sends and why.

How it grows

Lineguard first came out on 1 September 2026 and has had a new release about once a week since: new worlds and bosses, Fight, Duel, the Shop and more. Every release is on the Updates page, along with what's coming next and an ideas board where you can suggest something and vote for what you'd like to see.

Where to play

Here on lineguard.cc, in the app on the App Store and Google Play, and on game sites including Poki, Newgrounds and PixelPicked. Your progress on each one is its own.

Questions or ideas? See the contact page.