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Installing

PypeLine is free and you do not need Rust, Python or any other tools: download the copy for your system and open it. A new copy is built every time the game changes, so the links below are always the newest version.

System Download
Windows 10 and 11 PypeLine-windows.zip
macOS 11 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel) PypeLine-macos.zip
Linux (x86-64) PypeLine-linux.tar.gz

You need a graphics card that supports Vulkan, Metal or DirectX 12. Almost every computer from the last ten years does.

Windows

  1. Download PypeLine-windows.zip.
  2. Right-click it and choose Extract All, then Extract.
  3. Open the PypeLine folder and double-click PypeLine.exe.
  4. If a blue Windows protected your PC box appears, click More info, then Run anyway. The game is not signed yet, so Windows does not recognise it. You only have to do this once.

Tip: right-click PypeLine.exe and choose Send to > Desktop (create shortcut) to start it from your desktop.

macOS

  1. Download PypeLine-macos.zip and double-click it in Finder to unzip it.

  2. Drag PypeLine.app into your Applications folder.

  3. Double-click it. The game is not notarized by Apple yet, so the first time macOS stops it with a message that it "cannot be opened" or "could not verify" it.

    • macOS 15 Sequoia and newer: click Done. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security, click Open Anyway next to PypeLine, and confirm with your password.
    • macOS 14 Sonoma and older: right-click (or Control-click) PypeLine.app, choose Open, then click Open again.

    Or do it from Terminal in one line:

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PypeLine.app

After the first time it opens normally. The same app runs on Apple Silicon (M1 and newer) and Intel Macs.

Linux

tar -xzf PypeLine-linux.tar.gz
cd PypeLine
./pypeline

It runs on X11 and Wayland, on Ubuntu 22.04 or any newer distribution. It needs:

  • a Vulkan graphics driver (Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers; Fedora: sudo dnf install mesa-vulkan-drivers; Arch: sudo pacman -S vulkan-icd-loader plus your GPU's Vulkan driver, such as vulkan-radeon, vulkan-intel or nvidia-utils)
  • sound through ALSA, PulseAudio or PipeWire, which desktops already have.

To start it from anywhere, move the folder somewhere permanent (like ~/Games/PypeLine) and run it from there.

Updating

Download the newest copy and replace the old one. Your scripts, factory and settings are not stored in the game folder, so you keep all your progress (see Troubleshooting#where-are-my-saves).

Building from source

Only needed if you want to change the game: see Build from source in the README.

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