Intravenous 3

Intravenous 3: Borderline unlocks on Steam on October 2, 2026 — free for everyone, no strings attached. It is a standalone prologue that puts you in Gideon's shoes for two full missions and previews every system the full game is built on.

This site is a field manual for both releases: Borderline, which lands in days, and Intravenous 3, which arrives in Q2 2027 with Steve and Sean on the run.

The short version

• Borderline is free and standalone. You do not need any other Intravenous game to play it.
• Two complete missions, built as a showcase for the deeper stealth systems coming to Intravenous 3.
• The playtest already happened — more than 5,000 players broke it for a week, and the developer fixed 100+ bugs before release.
• The full game is separate. Intravenous 3 is a full release coming in Q2 2027; Borderline is the opening chapter of Gideon's story, not a slice of the main campaign.

New to the series?

The three-line version: Intravenous 1 was Steve Robbins' one-man revenge story against the junkies who killed his brother. Intravenous 2 paired him with Sean, an engineer with a bullet-time problem and a kidnapped father. Borderline follows Gideon — a mercenary both games left for dead — and the full game puts Steve and Sean back in the crosshairs of a manhunt.

You can start with Borderline without touching the first two games. The prologue introduces its cast on its own terms.

What this site covers

Guides, systems breakdowns, and launch intel — sourced from the official Steam pages, developer devlogs and news posts, never invented:

• Release & unlock — dates, countdown and how to get Borderline the moment it goes live.
• Getting started — the approach we recommend for your first hour.
• Stealth systems — the three-factor noise model from the developer's own devlogs.
• Story & characters — who Gideon is, and how the series got here.