A Line Held Tight
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Does this feel indie?
Vote based on whether this game feels indie to you. You can change your vote at any time. Results earn an IGF score after 10 accepted votes.| ContextThe evidence factors used to assess whether this game belongs on IndieGame.Fan. | Status | Notes Latest Contributor: IGF TeamEdit notes |
|---|---|---|
Updated: Jul 11, 2026Developer scaleThe operating scale of the game's developer. | ||
Updated: Jul 11, 2026Publisher scaleThe operating scale of the game's publisher. | ||
Updated: Jul 11, 2026Publisher statusHow the game's publishing relationship is classified. | ||
Updated: Jul 11, 2026Release statusWhether and how the game has been released. |
Media
7 itemsAbout the Game
Far from earth, your only weapons are your work mechs, your only support your fellow miners. When tensions boil over, will you take a stand?
A Line Held Tight is a dynamic sci-fi visual novel that follows The Canary, a member of a mining colony on a far-off chunk of rock. Out there, cut off from the rest of humanity by a vast expanse of space, a maelstrom of tensions are rising.
As a strike boils over you’ll help The Canary to decide where their heart and their loyalties lie. A branching narrative weaves its way through the deep tunnels of the mine to meet the characters within it as outside influences make themselves felt. Your choices will have outcomes small, large, and unpredictable. Will you choose to make a stand?
Welcome to the 32nd Century
The mine and its inhabitants are at the furthest reaches of humanity's spaceward expansion. Isolated and far from help, all you can rely on is each other.
Relationships hang in the balance
The different options that you choose will impact The Canary’s relationships with their friends, family and fellow workers. With emotions running high and divided opinions, you’ll need to decide who your people are.
Tools of the Trade
When push comes to shove and conflict becomes inevitable the only weapons available to you are your rigs, gigantic work mechs designed for drilling and hauling rock, not for combat.
Time Marches On
Hand-drawn charcoal art and a soundtrack of traditional folk tunes from around the British Isles and Europe connects the future to the past.
