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Push the Lane!

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Strategy
Developer: Keith Burgun
Release Date: Late 2017

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'Push the Lane!' Announced, Seeks Crowd Funding - Trailer

by Rainier on April 27, 2017 @ 8:28 a.m. PDT

Push the Lane! is a turn-based strategy game about pushing lanes, and sacrificing your dreams for something way better.

In the year 2101, the world is at peace, and everyone is obsessed with a hit new action game show called "Push the Lane".Tennor, a young guitarist, has watched her band struggle, and now break apart. Feeling desperate, she joins the Push the Lane competition, in the hopes of finding her friends, her band, and her place in the world.

Push the Lane! is turn based tactical strategy game that combines elements from DotA, Rogue-likes, and puzzle games into something totally new. Use your character's special abilities and construct networks of buildings to push waves of gems, overcome the odds, and emerge victorious!

In the early 22nd century, a new sport/game show hybrid has emerged as Earth's most popular pastime called Push the Lane! (Think Nickelodeon's GUTS or Legends of the Hidden Temple). Contestants fly out to a huge space station and compete in various circuits to make it into the top ranks of the league.

Indie developer Keith Burgun (known for titles such as Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure, 100 Rogues, and Empire: The Deck-Building Strategy Game) has launched a kickstarter campaign, looking for $12,500, to finish development on Push the Lane!.

Interested fans can also support the game on Steam Greenlight.


In the game, waves of gems crash into each other on three colored lanes. If a yellow gem crosses all the way across to the right and hits the opposing tower, the lane pushes one tile in that direction, like this:

If you push a gem across the lane while the lane is completely your color (yellow), you gain a point. First team to 30 points wins. But it's not that simple, because crashing a gem into a tower also powers up that tower, making it produce stronger gems in the future.

Using your character's special abilities, maneuver around the platform pushing and throwing the gems. Also, build a network of buildings that produce new gems, power them up, push them around, and other tactical maneuvers to help you eke out a victory.

Key Features:

  • 8 playable characters with their own unique abilities at launch, more later on. (More with stretch goals!)
  • 12 buildings that do different things, like produce gems, move gems, power up gems, move the player, and more. Combine the buildings together for cool combo effects! (More buildings with stretch goals!)
  • A single-player campaign that tells a story about challenges, chasing dreams, and friendship
  • Novel "discovery" system which lets players find secret characters, buildings, and more
  • Endlessly replayable with procedurally generating elements and a single-player Elo system
  • Memorable characters and charming artwork by Fariza Dzatalin
  • Deep, interesting and challenging gameplay that will be frequently updated to maintain and improve gameplay balance, add features, and more
  • A full original thematic rock soundtrack, including songs from other indie composers

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