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Pipes – Entertainment Game Review
Pipes is a Entertainment/Puzzle game from Michael Kerley, first launched in 12th November 2008.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 162+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pipes Stand Out
Rotate the pipe segments to connect all the pieces. Easy to learn and very addictive.
Features:
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Randomly generated puzzles – never the same game twice
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Multiple board sizes ranging from "Training Wheels" (4×4) to "Mega Insane" (56×70) *
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Introductory tutorial
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Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless") *
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"One color" option – when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected *
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Piece locking feature to help with large boards
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Zoom and scroll using familiar pinch and drag gestures
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Auto save and resume – never lose your place, even if someone calls in the middle of your game
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Timer (can be disabled if you want a more relaxing game)
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Online leaderboard – compare your best times to other players around the world *
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Offline "personal best times" – try to beat your best times
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Introductory tutorial
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Piece locking feature to help with large boards
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Every puzzle can be solved
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Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless")
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"One color" option – when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected
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Online leaderboard – compare your best times to other players around the world
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Requires in-app purchase, or previous app purchase from 1.0 or 2.0 versions
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pipes is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Fixed support for full game mode when offline
Download & Availability
Pipes is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Bought this within the first few weeks of getting our first iPhone. It's never moved from the first page of our games folder. The perfect puzzler when you need to burn time. Low battery use, no internet requiredgames how they oughta be. Much love to the dev for keeping it alive after so long.
This game was one of our first apps on our iPad Touch, it moved with us through many many iPhones and we still use it regularly when Im feeling fidgety. Well worth the purchase.
While it lacks the glitz of recent pipe games, its our favorite classic pipe game. No distractions, just focused casual game play.
Been playing this game for ages. Always good for a brain break.
Pipes is our favorite game. Though our best time isnt even close to THE best times we keep trying.
Very happy to see this game was updated. It is one of our favorite apps.
Pipes was the third or fourth app we ever downloaded for our iphone 3gs. When we learned it got updated for 64-bit and a new coat of paint for all screen sizes, we nearly lost it! The file size is small, its completely offline, and you can spend hours on a larger puzzle size, long enough to keep you entertained for an average domestic flight! And it wont destroy your battery with needless 3D or animations. Truly the perfect phone game.
This is the best pipe connect game we've found. It has the options to make play as easy as possible or almost impossible.
Perfect game on IPad if only worked on IPad PROPERLY.
It's so much fun and addicting and nice and simple. We were thinking "this game is perfect but we wish you could remove the timer on the bottom. It kinda puts us on edge" then we discovered in the options menu you can! And we were like ahhh perfect app!! Seriously great. We do like the idea someone else said of having the ability to change color of the pipes when connected. That'd be cool One of our top apps. Worth 99 cents. Absolutely. :).
Pipes captures the essense of a perfect casual game- it's absorbing but doesn't demand a lot of time, and we find ourselves pulling it up far more often than other games with more garish graphics and sound. Pipes has no sound at all, in fact, making it a great 'stealth' game for the office or while waiting for a table at a restaurant.
We don't ask for much in a game, but far too many games fall short. After buying a couple of games a week, looking for something that can hold our attention, for something that is both challenging and enjoyable, for something that will get harder as we get better, we can now quit looking. This is a great game. Yes, it's a logic game, but there's a zenlike feel to it as well. (unlike some, we're even okay with the graphics).
We have no idea how people do the mega insane stuff though.
We love this game. Because multiple board sizes are available, this can keep you busy for one minute or one hour. Somehow, the game doesn't get old. The interface is attractive, too, which is important to us (colors other than blue would be great, though).
This game made our 6 flight seem like a walk in the park. A bit tricky at first, Pipes is not only challenging and addictive, but extremely rewarding as well. The developer has been dedicated to maintaining the game for years across many other mobile handset platforms. The iPhone variant is perhaps the most pleasurable of all, due to the heightened user experience and enhanced graphics. We look forward to subsequent future releases, though it may be difficult to improve on such a simple, yet brilliant concept.
Very enjoyable; you can play a small board to kill a few minutes or a large one for a real challenge. This is probably the game we play the most, as odd as that may sound, because we can pick it up any time. The developer has also done a great job of responding to suggestions, with updates adding wraparound and one-color option, and now both personal and global best times. Now we have to go work on getting our times down.
This is a great one. We missed a subway stop playing. Great price, too.
Great addicting game! With so many skill levels and different gameplay options, we could play this for a long time. And to top it off it's only 99 cents.
We really enjoyed this game it keeps us entertained it is slot if fun may seem east but it really does stump you. Love it!! =].
Reminds us of Tetris… Entertaining in its simplicity but will still stump you in the end.
If you like puzzle games that are fun addictive and need at least 1 brain cell this game is awesome. You get to listen to your own music when you play the game.
This is a very simple game that is a ton of fun. It is really easy to play and the different levels can get really challenging so there is no worry about it becoming too easy. Good job.
This is a great game to kill time at work. This developer should create more stuff like this.
A favorite games that we always came back to – until we got a 6s Plus. The screen is so sensitive turning one tile accidentally turns 2 more. It's virtually impossible to win now.
It's exactly what you'd expect. We didn't give it 5 stars because we think it should be $0.99. That being said, we really enjoy this game. We recommend that you allow the user to change the color from blue in updates.
Has unlimited levels, has pinch to zoom and out, various sizes of levels, great graphics. Netmaniak, part of PuzzleManiak still has option to allow flowing from one side to the other if you wish. Overall this is a quality title especially with the random levels.
It's a challenging game. We're still trying to figure it out. So far so good.
It's an ok puzzle game. Gets boring after a while. Paradox 3000 is 10 times better. For us at least.
This game is deceptive difficult, and thus very addictive. If you like a good puzzle and like to chanllenge yourself, try it out. Worth the $0.99.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.8
- Size: 3.51 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Michael Kerley
Last updated: 15th September 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Michael Kerley