Lines is what appears to be, at first, a simple, fun little game about placing down some dots in a pre-drawn picture and watching as your dots fill in the lines to fill out the stage and beat the other colors. It's good, clean fun that can keep you occupied for minutes at a time. You turn your brain off and chat with friends or listen to a podcast.

But hold it right there. If you think that's all it is, you would be so, so wrong, possibly the wrongest a person in history has ever been. Turn your brain back on when you're playing this game otherwise you'll be missing out on the true message that Lines has to offer.

Though many may miss the hidden message in this game, Lines is actually one of the biggest liberal games out there right now. By buying and playing it, you're not only advancing the cause of liberalism, but also learning the history of liberalism, particularly liberalism in America. The goal of the game is to get the biggest line in each stage and beat all the other colors, which is the inherent drive of liberalism to allow the individual, or, as the game symbolizes it, the starting dot, the freedom to freely spread out and seek the rights of life, liberty, and happiness. All of the dots spread into lines at equal speeds (which of course represents the liberal principle of equality before the law) so you've got to be strategic in this game to beat the levels. Some of them can be trickier than others, which of COURSE is a symbol for the varying levels of liberty in each country today, and to suggest otherwise- that the devs of this game just randomly threw together some harder levels and some easier ones at random- would be completely illogical and I won't even be debating with that.

The lines and the the dots represent several big issues that liberalism is facing right now. Several stages touch on the issue of gerrymandering, as unfortunately that is a big problem today caused by the Republican Party as they want to stop liberalism, so in several stages you must beat them at their own gerrymandering game. There are several stages in which you must find a way to dominate the center of the stage before the other colors can make their way in, which represent the rising radicalism of some Democrats such as Bernie Sanders and the DNC's attempts to keep control as the center of the party in order to prevent liberalism being hijacked. There's also so many more issues such as gentrification, racism, global trade, and so much more which I just can't cover in this review as it would take too long. The stages are thought-provoking in that they can both be a challenge in gameplay and also they raise several good points about liberalism, the Democratic Party, liberal thinkers, and the market economy.

You don't even have to play the levels in order. If one of them is too hard for you, you can just skip it, which is another key point of liberalism these days: participation trophies. Back in my day if a level was too hard you couldn't just pause the game, open the menu, and select another easier level to play, no. Kids these days are growing up weak and liberal. No, back in my day we bought a cheat code book or we just stopped because there was evidence of development fraud by the other lines and the game was rigged the entire time and secretly my line won but the media won't report on that.

And once you've beaten every stage and ended the game, well that is just another liberal message as predicted by liberal thinkers who knew that such a thing would happen one day [1], so as you've personally triumphed, so has the cause of liberalism. A perfect ending to the perfect game about liberalism. I recommend this game to anyone and everyone.

[1] ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Francis. “The End of History?” The National Interest, no. 16 (1989): 3–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184.