ROOTLINE Playtest
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Playing now
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49 Sep 2026
| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game update | Playtest Update v0.1.6 ## Changes since v0.1.5 Added Steam integration - sign-in, account linking, profile avatars, rich presence, and server-backed achievements. Achievement progress now follows confirmed game events. Added new contracts involving system recovery, service disruption, website defacement, file publishing, and multi-hop network attacks. Added network-bounce exploits, direct local privilege escalation,… | — | |
| Game update | Playtest Update v0.1.5 Changes since v0.1.4 Added player-run software repositories. Players can now build packages, publish them from hosted machines, and install or update them through `rootpkg`. Added shutdown and restart controls for the player’s home machine. Added browser startup and new-tab preferences, along with Find controls and keyboard shortcuts in the code editor. Expanded networking tools with live-liste… | — | |
| Game update | Playtest Update v0.1.4-hotfix Changes since v0.1.3 Fixed First Contact progression so it begins when a mailbox is created and continues correctly whether the mailbox or bank account is created first. Improved RootMail and mailx handling of interrupted mail-server connections. RootMail now preserves drafts and attachments after a failed send and marks opened messages as read. Fixed sending and downloading binary mail attachm… | — | |
| Game update | Playtest Update v0.1.4 Changes since v0.1.3 Fixed First Contact progression so it begins when a mailbox is created and continues correctly whether the mailbox or bank account is created first. Improved RootMail and mailx handling of interrupted mail-server connections. RootMail now preserves drafts and attachments after a failed send and marks opened messages as read. Fixed sending and downloading binary mail attachm… | — | |
| Major update | Playtest Release Notes — v0.1.3 Playtest Release Notes — v0.1.3 This playtest release improves online reliability, terminal and scripting behaviour, and file synchronisation, while adding administration tools and including the standalone console client with the desktop release. Console client and terminal The standalone console client is now included alongside the desktop client, allowing text-only access to the same online w… | 25119687 | |
| Game update | Minor config tweaks Sorry :^) | — | |
| Major update | Playtest Release Playtest Release Notes This playtest release adds player-owned network hosting, expands the terminal and scripting systems, and substantially updates the browser, mail, desktop, account, networking, and persistence experience Player networks and hosting Players can now rent private networks through an in-game hosting provider. Each rental includes a public uplink, router, server, private addres… | 25090499 |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.