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PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

Pipes.exe is a co-op horror game about the world's favourite screensaver

It is the year 2026, and for computer touchers that means only one thing: we're going back. We're going back to before AI, before Office 365 and Game Pass upsells during the Windows installation process, before someone spilled glue on your taskbar and locked it rigidly in place. We're going back to the jagged OSes of old.

You can take that either as an imploration to adopt Linux (which it is) or as interest in Pipes.exe (which it also is), the co-op horror climbing game/operating system that just got its world premiere at the PC Gaming Show.

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