Heartline Runs
The main story mode: scene by scene, one short arcade run at a time.
- Hand-drawn scene levels
- Story beats between runs
- Saves at the scene
Short, sweet arcade runs with a cast you actually get attached to — tap, dodge, match, and nudge a love story along.
Free to download, with optional in-app extras
Start with the honest bit: it is an arcade game. Not a visual novel with a mini-game bolted on, not a dating sim with a stopwatch. You tap, you dodge, you keep a line of hearts from snapping, and a run is over before the kettle boils. If you have ever played anything on a bus, your thumbs already know what to do.
The romance is the frame around that, and it earns its place. Every level is a scene rather than a stage number — a florist's rooftop in the rain, a night bus with one seat left, a bakery at closing time. The thing you are chasing through the obstacles is a moment between two people, and clearing the run is what lets the moment land. Miss, and you get the funnier version of the scene instead. Nobody is punished for being bad at arcade games; you just get a different beat of the story.
Because that is how phones are actually used. We build each level so it fits in the gap where you would otherwise stare at a departure board — long enough to feel like a run, short enough that stopping mid-session costs you nothing. Progress is saved at the scene, not at the checkpoint, so putting the phone in your pocket is a legitimate move.
There is no experience bar pretending to be a relationship. You meet characters, you play their scenes, and the scenes you clear open the next ones. Some of them are soft, some of them are ridiculous, and a couple of them are unreasonably stubborn about hand-holding. They are drawn by hand, written to be re-read, and they turn up again in events rather than being retired.
Extras exist and they are extras: cosmetics, a few conveniences, nothing that locks a scene behind it. If you install it and never spend anything, you still get the whole story.
Tap and hold, that is the whole input. Nothing on screen requires a second hand or a surface to rest the phone on.
Each run takes place somewhere specific — rooftop florist, night bus, bakery at closing — and clearing it plays out the moment it was building to.
One fresh short run a day with its own twist. Skip a week and nothing resets; the streak is a nicety, not a leash.
Progress saves at the scene. Close it mid-run, come back at lunch, pick up where the story was.
Art, screens and the desk it all gets drawn on.
Four ways in, all of them in the free download.
The main story mode: scene by scene, one short arcade run at a time.
One new short run every day with a rule twist — reversed controls, one life, rain.
Characters you unlock by playing their scenes, each with their own thread and voice.
Limited-time runs built around the time of year, with their own art and scenes.
In-app extras are cosmetic or convenience only — no scene is locked behind one.
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