Uplink takes place in the year 2010, with the player in the role of a hacker working for the mysterious "Uplink Corporation". The player gains money, software, hardware, and skill in the course of going about hacking global corperations, then one day, a deceased Uplink Agent, working for the Andromeda Research Corporation (ARC) sends the player an e-mail.
This begins one of the main story lines. The player can either work for ARC or its rival company Arunmor. ARC is constructing a virus known as Revelation, which will destroy the internet. Arunmor is trying to stop them.
This game was released for the PC directly by Introversion, and ported to the Mac by Ambrosia Software.