Line Color Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Cheats and Strategies

Line Color is a brand new reflex-based puzzler that challenges you to help a little blob of paint navigate a bunch of treacherous levels. It’s surprisingly simple, with you pressing your thumb on the screen to move the blob and lifting it off to bring it to a stand still.

The reason for the all the stopping and starting is that you have a set path to move down to reach the end of the level and it’s absolutely cluttered with obstacles. If you come into contact with one at any moment you’ll hit that game over screen.

In this beginner’s guide, we’re going to give you a few tips and tricks to help you see that nasty screen a lot less than you ordinarily would. It won’t make you a master, but it will set you on the path to becoming one.

Line Color Beginner’s Guide – How it Works:

Line Color is very easy to pick up. You control a blob of paint that can only move forward along a predetermined path. To move the blob forward, simply tap and hold on the screen with your thumb. To bring it to a stop, simply release your thumb.

Using just these two simple controls you have to help the little paint blob navigate a series of challenging levels. This is easy when the path is clear but it’s frequently littered with various obstacles.

Touch an obstacle and it’s game over, so you’ll need to use the power of stopping and starting to safely get past each of them. It’s not easy, as most of the obstacles move, requiring solid timing on your part.

Tips and Tricks:

Now that you understand the basics, you can check out or tips and tricks below to help you safely complete each level:

• Take your time: You’re under no time pressure whatsoever so it makes sense to just take your time. Sit back and watch the pattern for each obstacles so you can easily bypass it and don’t be afraid to use caution and move slowly to avoid whatever nasty stuff is ahead.
• Plan ahead: Speaking of what’s ahead, we recommend keeping a good eye out at all times so you can plan on how to deal with future obstacles well ahead of time. Many of the paths in Line Color loop back on themselves, so it makes sense to look ahead and plan how to bypass each obstacle whenever you can.

• You are never safe: You should never feel safe in Line Color, as there’s always an obstacle ahead that wants to ruin your day. Always move cautiously and expect the worst and you’ll be fine.
• Spend your coins on new characters: As you progress you’ll collect a bunch of coins that you can spend to unlock a new random character. There’s nothing else to spend them on, so go crazy.
• You have to colour in the entire path: As you move across the path, you’ll paint it, and you have to paint the entire path to complete each level. This is worth keeping in mind, as you can’t bypass any section of the level to complete it faster. You’re going around that loop whether you like it or not.
• The indicator at the top of the screen details how much of the level you’ve covered: To help you figure out how much of the level you’ve completed, check the indicator at the top of the screen. Once it fills, the level’s over.

Glen Fox

Head of Editorial

Glen has over a decade's worth of experience in gaming journalism, writing for Pocket Gamer, Pocket Tactics, Nintendo Life, and Gfinity. When he's not badgering everyone about the dangers of passive text, you can probably find him playing Wild Rift.