Mainlining

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Mainlining

Short description

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.

Developer
Rebelephant
Publisher
ReadGraves
Release
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
Price
$12.99
Reviews
285
Positive
78%
Followers
4,053
Owners (estimated)
100K – 200K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Simulation
Features
Steam Trading Cards
Tags
Indie Hacking Simulation Adventure Puzzle Point & Click Typing Pixel Graphics Singleplayer Programming Story Rich Great Soundtrack Memes 2D
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$130ksomewhere between $58k and $2m · roughly 6K–200K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $10.10, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $12.99 launch price. That is 22% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

3 data points since Jul 31, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$128k → ~$130k
Reviews 283 → 285
Followers 4,053 → 4,053
Price $12.99 → $12.99
Positive reviews 77.7% → 77.5%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 242 further data points reach back to Sep 1, 2016 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $1.29 on Dec 22, 2021.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Mainlining is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Indie + Hacking + Simulation

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Mainlining. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
VICCP VICCP quasardeep 3 titles 5 − Point & Click + Casual $4.99 169 69% Thu, Jun 20, 2019 $32k
$14k – $208k
Chants of Sennaar Chants of Sennaar Rundisc 2 titles 4 − Hacking − Simulation + Singleplayer + Colorful $19.99 31,208 98% Tue, Sep 05, 2023 $25m
$3.6m – $44.4m
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension Draw Me A Pixel 3 titles 4 − Hacking − Simulation + Pixel Graphics + Casual $12.99 24,256 98% Thu, Aug 06, 2020 $12.6m
$6.3m – $12.6m
Cyber Manhunt Cyber Manhunt Aluba Van+ 5 titles 4 − Adventure − Point & Click + RPG + Mystery $9.99 14,563 92% Tue, Feb 02, 2021 $6m
$4.6m – $9.2m
The Room Three The Room Three Fireproof Games 6 titles 4 − Hacking − Simulation + Mystery + Atmospheric $5.99 13,055 95% Tue, Nov 13, 2018 $2.7m
$1.4m – $2.7m

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