Mainlining overview

Overview

Mainlining comes from Rebelephant and is published by ReadGraves. It arrived on Steam on Jan 26, 2017, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Mainlining's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 7 October 2026 - 16:55:34 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 77% positive across 368 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Mainlining is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Mainlining has sold up to 14,908 units and has 285 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $102,647. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Mainlining overview details

Mainlining combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Mainlining Deluxe Edition Mainlining Deluxe Edition includes: The full Mainlining game. The complete original digital soundtrack by Telltale Games' award-winning composer, Jared Emerson-Johnson. The complete digital art book, "The Pixels of Mainlining" About the Game " Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. " - Edward Snowden Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that mixes dark and dry humour with a gripping narrative that will have you hooked from the very first case. Following the government's introduction of the BLU Pill Act and the Secret Intelligence Service's reintroduction of MI7, all online personal data is accessible by the powers that be. Mainlining questions techno-ethics and whether it is acceptable for an organisation to have the power to look at personal data. What if someone else got the key to that? Mainlining and its BLU Pill Act mirrors what's happening in our own world. On November 4th 2015 the The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill was discussed in the British Parliament's House of Commons for the very first time. It’s likely that the bill will be passed sometime in 2016, meaning that domestic mobile and broadband providers will be forced to assist authorities with gathering data and storing it for a year. The police and security services will have access to the top line of the UK’s population browsing history, as well as knowing what apps have been used. Referred to in the popular media a…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Mainlining is listed as a game with $1.29 (90% off from $12.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, and Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 7 October 2026 - 16:55:34 UTC, a tracked peak of 4, and 77% positive reviews.

Overview tags

IndieHackingSimulationAdventurePuzzlePoint & ClickTypingPixel GraphicsSingleplayerProgrammingStory RichGreat SoundtrackMemes2D

Support and legal notes

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