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Mainland cover art

Mainland

Vasily Voronkov · INSTEAD Community · 2015-05-08

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 08, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.

Mainland is a 2015 Adventure, Free To Play, and Indie game that is free-to-play, with a Very Positive sentiment based on 83% of 248 reviews and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 247 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (66 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
595920152026Week of 2015-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
140May 2015May 2024May 2015 — avg 14 · peak 44Jul 2015 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2015 — avg 6 · peak 13Jan 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2024 — avg 1 · peak 2

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — May 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieAdventureText-BasedFree to PlayInteractive Fiction

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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