Mainlining (2017)

Rebelephant

Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.00 from 7 ratings

276 members have it in their collection · 192 backlogged · 4 wish listed

After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from within the environment of 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.
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Details

Developers
Rebelephant
Publishers
Merge Games
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Simulator
Themes
Mystery
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jan 26, 2017 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Jun 20, 2019 (North_America) Nintendo Switch
  • Jun 20, 2019 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
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pixelcrypt

Review pixelcrypt 2/5 · Mar 17, 2024

Starts strong but becomes extremely tedious

Mainlining is a hacked/detective sim on an emulated pc - a genre im a huge fan of. It starts out perfect, with little clues and deductive reasoning, you slowly unravel a case.

But Jesus, it gets so tedious. Every chapter you have to type the same lines of code just to download documents, and it never becomes a shortcut. Gets …

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Mainlining is a hacked/detective sim on an emulated pc - a genre im a huge fan of. It starts out perfect, with little clues and deductive reasoning, you slowly unravel a case.

But Jesus, it gets so tedious. Every chapter you have to type the same lines of code just to download documents, and it never becomes a shortcut. Gets so old. The story, the multitude of characters, etc get extremely complex and impossible to follow.

If it was just the first couple chapters, I would easily recommend. But the game doesn’t develop and build in a good way - it stays stuck and stops working.

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