Living Pipes

Living Pipes

Ashton Walden · July 2, 2025 · Atmospheric, Interactive Fiction, Puzzle, Point & Click, Walking Simulator

Living Pipes is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mixed44% · 32 📉 Recent reviews down 35%
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Living Pipes price

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About Living Pipes

Hired to fix a building, paid too much to ask why.In Living Pipes, a first-person narrative mystery game created as a senior project at Ringling College of Art and Design, you are sent to a remote building under mysterious circumstances. What starts as a routine repair job quickly unravels into something far more unsettling.Explore, repair, and uncover the truth.Navigate dimly lit corridors and strange, decaying rooms using your scanning and repair tools to restore broken infrastructure—fix electrical systems, seal pipe leaks, and reconnect disrupted networks. But as your tasks progress, the environment becomes increasingly unnatural, and you're forced to question the real reason you're here.Key Features:
  • First-Person Exploration: Immersive atmospheric environments powered by Unreal Engine 5.
  • Narrative Mystery: Piece together the story through found documents, audio logs, and environmental storytelling.
  • Puzzle Mechanics: Use diagnostic tools to identify faults and solve spatial and logic-based puzzles tied to the building’s systems.
  • Unsettling Progression: As you dig deeper, the building—and whatever controls it—begins to resist your presence.
Will you finish the job… or find out what really lives behind the walls?

Living Pipes — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 1, 2026
This game made me mad a little bit, at least the ending. The real thing is, the game just isn't that great to begin with, and then you get slapped with a REALLY crappy troll ending... and it rubbed me the wrong way. There is a decent attempt at world building, but it's too short to really have enough flavor. Honestly, the only things that the game does well are the visuals and the controls, but the rest of it stink-stank-stunk. The puzzles sucked, and I'll be honest, I pretty much just random lucked my way through the game, the first puzzle in particular (it was super janky). I've played a ton of these games, and this one is just not good. It [i]tries[/i], but it never gets there.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 29, 2025
game is VERY buggy and i kept getting softlocked, and compleated the entire game the second i entered the hotel somehow? im not even sure what the hell was going on.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 25, 2025
I can't recommend at this time. not only did the game trigger my firewall, but the game is super glitchy. I also had to force shutdown the game since there was no menu for me to quit through.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 3, 2026
it made my computer overheat like crazy but it was somewgat enjoyable
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 23, 2026
really interesting little game, you can tell that there was such creative ideas and thought put into it - would be really cool to play a longer version of this!
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 15, 2026
Controls wouldnt work, no way to quit the game i had to alt/tab out and stop it in steam.

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