Lifeline... Reviews – Page 17
5/5 rating based on 236 reviews. Read all reviews for Lifeline for iPhone.
Lifeline is paid iOS app published by 3 Minute Games, Inc.
Great concept, bad writing
9 inch
I love the concept of this game, it reminds me of the choose your own adventure books I used to read as a kid. However, the writing here is really bad. The jokes are terrible, the story is weak and a lot of the choices you make are meaningless. For example there are several times where you have to choose between “what happened?” and “are you alright?”. I’m guessing that the raving reviews come from people who never read a good sci fi story, because this isn’t one.
Not working well with Apple Watch
Nick1857
This app used to be great and always worked. I recently got myself and a friend the new Apple watch series 3, and the app just loads forever. If it does pull up the questions to answer, choosing the answer will not "stick". This needs an update
I love the game
Branch and Poppy forever
I love lifeline but in my opinion Taylor takes way to long to respond... but i still love the game!
iPhone X support?
LAKERS_NEVERDIE
Can you please update lifeline series to support the iPhone X display.
Good story
xmarc999
Not really a game but rather interactive fiction. So this is all about the story. In making choices, you become part of the story, very aware that the wrong choice can be made. Very good.
Just wow
lame-lord
It’s funny, whenever I see glowingly positive reviews on iPhone apps I usually think they’re paid for and not actually indicative of the quality of the game. For Lifeline I now completely believe the reviews are true. I’ve never been a mobile gamer or even reviewed an app but I bought Lifeline on a whim and played it for a while. It took me by surprise. It’s an amazingly written and enjoyable game, quality I would expect from a full console/PC game. The immersion in this game is wild. The real time mechanic might turn some off but fortunately you’re provided a function to disable the real time to skip over plot branches you’ve followed before. The pauses are placed really well to build suspense. You don’t get them placed arbitrarily to extend playtime, they’re always for dramatic effect and immersion. And even then toward the climax of the game the long pauses vanish so you get to experience the action all at once and aren’t let down by pacing. The plot is pretty good, it’s definitely written and told well although not completely flawless, honestly the first 3/4 of the game is aimless build up with enormous amounts of foreshadowing but very little action or intrigue. Regardless, I still managed to get the main character injured early on, so there’s still impact in your choices in the beginning. The only big issue is that the game starts with long pauses (I don’t mind) and very slow world building and all of the action and real “plot” comes through in the climax, which only lasts maybe 20 minutes if you’re only playing the game. Really, other reviews may exaggerate how much your choices impact the game. But it’s done in a reasonable way, sometimes you’re given a choice and the main character will go against it (but thou must, Zelda style) but only because your suggestions are dumb or will obviously hurt them. Maybe it’s bad to give the option in the first place, but hey, it’s pretty realistic and sometimes even a bit of comic relief. So yeah, the game isn’t perfect but it’s still an amazing experience, the best I’ve had from a mobile game. Really, I never expected this level of quality from any mobile game ever. Maybe this long drawn out review looks like either shilling or being a paid promoter but nah, I’m dead serious about the quality of this game. Hopefully other people will be willing to drop the very reasonable sum of money on the game and get a lot to think about from it. All in all, 4.5/5, I just can’t give it a .5, and rounding up would imply the game is perfect. So yeah, it’s okay I guess.
iOS 11 problems
shway24
Can’t play in Notification Center in IOS11. Would be very very happy if this was fixed.
Such a cool idea
Sendian82
I actually really enjoyed this, but the way messages come in one sentence at a time like a text message from those friends who think they need to send it word by word REALLY triggered my anxiety levels. Nothing... nothing... then a virtual tsunami of notifications flooding my phone. It made me crazy. I’m all for realism, but Taylor is an awful person. :p Outside of that, I loved it.
Great story
Hrairy
I loved this game. I like the character and the interaction you have with him. The only complaint that I have is that the game is too short. For the price, I think it should have been twice as long. It’s not as if I am paying for amazing graphics or anything like that. A simple text game could and should be cheaper or take longer to finish playing. I would not have purchased the bundle if I had realized how short it would be.