I played the demo version, solved the first simple case and started the second case. I took a break and returned to the main menu (I didn't find a save button). When I tried to continue that game it starts again with the first case. How do I save the game? How do I save all the detailed notes I could type into that editor?

pavo

This. I'm having exactly the same issue. I also noticed that the demo CRASHES when you QUIT from the MAIN MENU, so I assume this probably wipes out all your progress?

I have no interesting in buying this game if the demo crashes.

UPDATE: looking in the Steam forums, the demo has been crashing for at least 7 months, so that's not a good sign.

UPDATE 2: The above was on Windows XP. I tried installing it on the latest Windows 10. It runs without crashing when you quit... but it didn't save any progress I made within the game. Although I didn't try running through the entire 1st case again... maybe the game only saves AFTER you complete a complete case? Anybody know? I may try it again later tonight, on W10, to see if completing a case will save its progress when you Quit. By the way, that's the ONLY WAY I've found to quit the game... hit the Main Menu option from the "Start" menu, and then choose "X QUIT" in the lower left. Maybe there's another way?

UPDATE 3: Well that was a bust. This time, rather than just QUIT the game, I finished the first case, downloaded the 2nd case file, then went to the MAIN MENU, re-selected my own username, hit the arrow, hit Continue... AND IT ALREADY FORGOT ALL MY PROGRESS!

What's especially troublesome if GOG's wording at the top of the game card for the Demo File...

"The Mainlining Demo contains the first two cases, and a fully functioning save feature".

This is not true in my experience, across two machines, and two different operating systems. How is this supposed to work?

I played through the demo all at once and bought the full game a few days later. I started a new game, but my demo save was in there, so the demo is not altogether broken.

Thanks for the reply. Do you know how the savegame is supposed to work? For example, could I go into the game, read a new email, download a new file to my folder, and quit... with the game remembering that downloaded file when I come back in? I'm talking about the full game. I wonder if you have to play a complete "case" before the game remembers your progress, or is everything you change on your desktop remembered across sessions? Thanks!

UPDATE: further question. Is there a "SAVE" button somewhere in the game? I notice in the MainliningStartMenu.csv there is an entry called "Save", but it doesn't show up in the demo. Maybe the demo is not supposed to save? Did your demo have a Save button?

Hey, sorry for the late, late reply I kept seeing the notice but never checked the forum.

Anyway, I'm not really sure how the save works, but I just loaded my game and quit out, then loaded again. I did have to start the case over, but hadn't really made progress, so either you will have to finish an entire case or there are some checkpoints in the middle. Sorry, I haven't tried quitting in the middle of the case yet, but there is definitely no SAVE button, only the option to restart the case or return to the menu.

Right now I'm assuming it saves only at the end of cases, and unfortunately does not seem to carry over notes, so it might be worth actually writing stuff down.