Unreal fans, here is something special for you today. Epic Games has allowed players to download and play for free the classic Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament games. Yep, you read that right. You can play these classic Unreal games on PC for free.
All you have to do is download the installers for these games from here and here.
The installers will download the original disc image for Unreal Gold and UT from archive.org. They will then extract the disc contents into a folder of your choice, and then install the latest public OldUnreal patch.
These versions of Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament work on most modern-day Windows operating systems. Oldunreal is also working on installers for Linux and macOS.
This is one of the best news we’ve heard lately. Although there are no plans for a new Unreal or UT game, we can at least enjoy the classics. And, thanks to these versions, they will work on modern PC systems.
In theory, these free versions should work with UnrealHD v3.0 and Unreal Evolution. UnrealHD is a mutator that replaces all the old and blurry Unreal/RTNP skins with detailed, high-resolution versions. On the other hand, Unreal Evolution is a gameplay mod. This mod aims to offer a tighter overall design through polished and enhanced weaponry/gunplay, smarter AI and refined enemy placement. So, make sure to give them a go.
Speaking of Unreal, in February 2024, we shared a video that showcased a WIP RTX Remix Mod for Unreal. This RTX Remix Mod aims to add Full Ray Tracing/Path Tracing effects to the game. As said, this is still a WIP project. Still, you can download it and try it yourselves. Just make sure to temper your expectations.
And that is that. This is a great move from Epic Games. Because, yes. Epic Games gave permission to oldUnreal so that they could distribute the ISO of these games.
Have fun!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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i still maintain that when Unreal and Half Life first came out, the Unreal engine was so much better.
Obvious, this is isn't a controversial point at all, Goldsrc is a Quake Engine fork which is older than UE, but as a whole game Unreal doesn't stand a chance
Unreal was a better game than Half Life – people just fell for the propaganda.
LMAO, you fool, i always knew you had exotic tastes but now i think you just compulsively want to stand out, this isn’t high school dude, you won’t impress girls with outlandish opinions anymore
Based on your reply, it's pretty obvious you live in your parent's basement and pleasure yourself with a hand-knitted Gabe Newell sock. Just remember to take a break every now and then, ok buddy?
Both were/are excellent games!
I remember playing the game on pentium MMX 166Mhz. The framerate was a tad low tbh.
on the other hand, a friend of mine had the 200mhz MMX and the framerate was that much better!
Congrats, u got the award for the most useless comment
Had 2x voodoo2's in sli back when i played it first along with a crappy cyrix processor (that went out the windows after the first level… bought an intel due to this game and GL quake)
Unreal is at the top 5 games of all time for me. I've finished it so many times i can't even remember.
I was stunned from its graphics and gameplay when it was released. (yes, i'm kinda old 😂)
I always thought it was so goddamn ugly i couldn't get into it.
The engine's capabilities were striking, but the textures style and levels are just a stab at the eyes kind of fugly.
That’s ok mate, different opinions are welcome, we’re not woke here. 😛
I loved the fact that it was exactly what the game name says, unreal. Except for a few bits here and there, everything else had nothing to do with reality and I love that in games. I prefer a fantasy world to a real representation of it.
Hands down one of the most iconic and influential FPS games on the late 90s. It's graphics, level, sound, and AI design was just way ahead of anything else out there at the time. Jaw dropping experience first time I saw it as a ~10yo kid!
Why play this when you can play Fortnite?
i dont get it, wouldnt it make more sense to put them on epic store for free? Surely they cant waste that much bandwidth they are under one gb lsmall.
Nice to see, Unreal Gold was one of the first fps games I really got into. Fun game.
Wow! But weird! Smells like upcoming remasters? Gotta get these in the hands of people? But why so quiet? Sounds like remasters to me.
If it was "an effort in game preservation", they would have gone full PR milking on it, yet 0, nothing.
No doubt, since the whole industry have gone creatively bankrupt or are held hostage by the PK media and asylum of twitter that will cry their hearts out of they don't follow the narrow razors edge… but hey they will cry anyway so why any sane person even listen to those fragile crybabies to begin with is beyond me.
I already have both installed on my PC, along with UT2K4, Quake 1-3, Duke 3D, Bood 1+2, Half-Life, RTCW, SOF2, Deus Ex, Thief. I love to re-live the golder years!
Go back and play em from time to time…
Play warhammer boltgun, you'll feel right at home.
Great old games, still have fond memories of them. Fun side-note… Even from back in that era they stuttered far less than today's epic engine! Guess much of today's "easy does attitude" with things like huge copy/pasting classes especially polymorphic ones for everything is a great way to code easy… But throws good hardware features like branch prediction out the window – Yet claim it isn't so because the compiler fixes it all… fact it doesn't, any amateur coder should be able to count the number of cpu cycles needed and look for things like memorystalls etc (due to things like the pre-fetchers having a harder time to predict what to fetch) of classes or "clean code" vs writing it for performance (ie more straight forward code execution)… And don't get me started on easy does it designer features like blueprinting etc.
Lazy kills performance!
"Epic Games gave permission to oldUnreal so that they could distribute the ISO of these games"
They don't mention this anywhere nor do they distribute it.
Deck16 and Morpheus!!!
Whats with those downloaders? 20kb/s. cmon man
UT99 is one of the greatest games ever made.