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Life & fun · October 30, 2015

Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game launched on October 30, 2015 with 802 votes, #3 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Twitch Installs Arch Linux is a cooperative text-based horror game launched in 2015. Players work together in a shared narrative experience with horror elements. The game is designed for audiences interested in interactive storytelling and collaborative gameplay. It combines the challenge of text-based adventure gaming with thematic horror content, offering a unique approach to cooperative entertainment through its unconventional premise.

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Remember how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was? Now we have a much harder challenge: install Arch Linux. Every five seconds, the most popular keystroke in Twitch chat will be entered into an Arch Linux virtual machine. Just join our Twitch.tv stream and contribute to the mayhem! However, below are some milestones. When these goals are met, we will raffle off some coolfrom twitchinstalls.com

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