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Mainlining

77% positive of 285 Steam reviews

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Released
2017
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Rebelephant. Published by ReadGraves.

About the game

After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.

Tagged by players

  • Hacking
  • Typing
  • Programming
  • Point & Click
  • Simulation
  • Adventure
  • Puzzle
  • Memes
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Story Rich

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Mainlining works better as a point-and-click detective game wearing a hacker hoodie than as an actual hacking sim. Digging through fake desktops, pinging IPs and matching suspects to evidence is a neat setup, and the parody software has some personality. The command line is clunky and the arrest system can be weirdly picky, but there's enough here to recommend with a few caveats.

    5 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    It is such a good concept but unfortunately it is literally unplayable. I am on case 3 and whenever I type 'u' the command line resets. There is no way for me to find the U number plates. This is a known bug which I have tried to get around from other advice online but no amount of opening/closing tabs or going in and out of windowed mode changes anything. You also cannot copy and paste text or move your cursor so…

    1.8 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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