A Line Held Tight
<h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>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?</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>A Line Held Tight</strong> is a dynamic sci-fi <strong>visual novel</strong> 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. </p><p class="bb_paragraph" >As a strike boils over you’ll help The Canary to decide where their heart and their loyalties lie. A <strong>branching narrative </strong>weaves its way through the deep tunnels of the mine to meet the characters within it as outside influences make themselves felt. Your <strong>choices </strong>will have outcomes small, large, and unpredictable. Will you choose to make a stand?</p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>Welcome to the 32nd Century</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >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.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/a6f483b563c7a79a25f401ef5c77eaa1.poster.avif?t=1780765853" width=800 height=450 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/a6f483b563c7a79a25f401ef5c77eaa1.webm?t=1780765853" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/a6f483b563c7a79a25f401ef5c77eaa1.mp4?t=1780765853" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>Relationships hang in the balance</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >The different options that you choose will impact The Canary’s <strong>relationships</strong> with their friends, family and fellow workers. With emotions running high and divided opinions, you’ll need to decide who your people are.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/daf949f4f67a43816e6a80648baa74e0.poster.avif?t=1780765853" width=800 height=450 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/daf949f4f67a43816e6a80648baa74e0.webm?t=1780765853" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/daf949f4f67a43816e6a80648baa74e0.mp4?t=1780765853" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>Tools of the Trade</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >When push comes to shove and conflict becomes inevitable the only weapons available to you are your rigs, gigantic work <strong>mechs</strong> designed for drilling and hauling rock, not for combat.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/9c7c0640a58b387ed13b66b0ac20f150.poster.avif?t=1780765853" width=800 height=450 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/9c7c0640a58b387ed13b66b0ac20f150.webm?t=1780765853" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3897300/extras/9c7c0640a58b387ed13b66b0ac20f150.mp4?t=1780765853" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><h2 class="bb_tag" ><strong>Time Marches On</strong></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >Hand-drawn charcoal art and a soundtrack of traditional folk tunes from around the British Isles and Europe connects the future to the past.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p>