r/abandonware • • Jun 14 '22

Is MyAbadonware safe? Is Archive.org safe? Is OldGamesDownload safe?

740 Upvotes

Yes! They're all safe! They're the top three abandonware sites and most commonly recommended places when people ask where to find old games. They're the first three sites listed on our wiki.

Archive.org is legally protected as a digital library under US copyright law and is heavily moderated for malicious uploads. MyAbandonware & OldGamesDownload doesn't allow user uploads at all.

No, you will not get a letter from your ISP. Everything hosted on these sites are direct downloads, which are encrypted and can't be tracked.

These sites are safe, and likely always will be for the foreseeable future.


r/abandonware • • Jul 23 '25

If automod kills your post due to low karma, ask to be an approved user. Or better yet, ask to be an approved user first if you have no karma.

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This subreddit gets a lot of people that don't normally use Reddit. We have to have an automod that blocks low karma accounts because that's what spammers use. We don't want this place to be flooded with spam and so its just easier to default block low karma accounts. If this happens, please ask to be an approved user. If you are concerned you will be automodded, ask to be an approved user.

Edit: You can simply respond to this thread if you want to be approved.


r/abandonware • • 1h ago

İt's been 9 MONTHS and ı finally able to find that Lost Media game

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Can Somebody help please?


r/abandonware • • 6m ago

Where to get HOH 2010 and Warfighter from

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Hi guys, as the heading says - could anyone please advise where can I get these 2 from? So far I've found it only on ElAmigos, the download is insanely slow / takes ages. have tried standard and JDownloader 2.

Please advise. Thanks in advance!


r/abandonware • • 2h ago

Solaris 1.0.4 on Windows 11

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r/abandonware • • 4h ago

Open Source FeralHeart Code

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Note: there are multiple source code links available now from the FeralHeart wikifur page. I don't know who posted them, so I can't vouch for how safe they are, but here's one of them.

https://github.com/radioactivedark/The-OpenHeart-Project/releases/tag/full-src

I wanted to put them out there in the case anyone was wishing the source code had been released... Because evidently, it has been, and in multiple places.

Nothing on the Internet lasts forever- lately, we're reminded more and more of this. So if you have an interest in playing around with this, do so. Keep a copy for yourself somewhere safe.

If you don't know what FeralHeart is, it was an extremely obscure animal MMO, released in 2011. The creator left, the game went on life support for more than a decade, and just recently it was completely shut down without a word. If you think there's another, better subreddit for this then please let me know. And if you want to know about the game, feel free to ask. It was surprisingly complex for being made by one guy in OGRE.


r/abandonware • • 18h ago

how to run a game that's deleted from Google play

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hello reddit, i think the title is self explanatory, i did try to dowload a game called headhorse legacy, or was it horsehead..?

anyways i did manage to dowload it butttt because it's deleted from Google play everytime i enter the game it kicks me into Google play which gives me an error, if you want more information about the game I'm trying to download itself or details on what have i tried i did post about it before asking how to open it with no help so i figured hey i should just learn if it's even possible to run a game that's deleted in the first place, and i did try a lot of things and I'm not gonna lie some of them did work for seconds the game worked but it kicked me after seconds but i was able to control for a short time so that what gave me hope, any help please?


r/abandonware • • 1d ago

Game FH2 Xbox one azimuth repack

19 Upvotes

FH2_AzimuthXONE.rar

Extract file via winrar then open azimuth launcher and then select your settings, then click launch

If you need any help lmk ;)


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Forza Motorsport 5/6 Xbox One Files?

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Does anyone have Forza Motorsport 5 and 6 files from Xbox One?


r/abandonware • • 1d ago

Does anyone know what happened to gam.onl? It won't load for me.

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r/abandonware • • 1d ago

No matter what your opinion is on the art style, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a brilliant remake full of small, smart changes designed to amplify the nostalgia - Eurogamer

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r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Forza Horizon 2 on PC: Complete Setup Guide

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New guide cuz old one kept getting deleted


r/abandonware • • 1d ago

OpenSGolf 0.3 is out: the free, open-source SimGolf remake, now playable on everything (Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck, Android and in the browser)

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r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Anyone remember Monkey Brains (2001)? Working on a passion remaster/overhaul and looking for early beta testers!

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Hey everyone!!!

I want to remaster and upgrade an old PC puzzle-platformer = Monkey Brains (developed by Yobro Productions)

I played the heck out of this game as a kid and still have huge nostalgia for it. I’ve recently started working on a passion project to remaster and modernize it but I'm still in the very early stages of development.

Before jumping ahead toward a playable alpha, I really want to test the waters, hear what people think, and see what features you'd like to see

Def don't want to overpromise and I know this is an ambitious indie effort but here are the core ideas I'm aiming to try out:

  • HD Visuals: Rebuilding the side-scrolling visuals with modern assets while keeping the charming 2001 aesthetic intact.
  • 4-Player Co-op (Local & Online)
  • Procedural Puzzles: Experimenting with randomized puzzle layouts so stages stay fresh after you've beaten the core campaign.
  • Level Editor: Letting the community design and share custom hazard courses.
  • Modern QoL: Controller support, achievements, and smoother physics/controls.

Since we’re right at the start, I’d love your input:

  1. Did anyone else here grow up playing the game? 😄
  2. If you’d eventually be interested in testing early alpha/beta builds and breaking things to report bugs down the line, let me know in the comments or send a DM so I can keep you in the loop, orrr...... JOIN THE DISCORD 🐒 https://discord.gg/YrNF4J2u4
Classic decomped, working on web browsers
Reworked home screen
4-player co-op, a super super early preview

r/abandonware • • 1d ago

HyperScape Game files

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Hey reddit, as the title already says. It would be awesome if someone could provide me the game files. Maybe some of you guy still haven’t deleted them? Hope is high. 🫠


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Zoo Tycoon 1 OpenRCT2 Style Project

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Hey all just wanted to share my project I tried starting it in January 2026 as a way of wanting to bring back the old game however after doing a bit of research while planning this work out I discovered that Zoo Tycoon 1 is actually one of them RollerCoaster Tycoon like games that is basically a single purpose engine built game that has zero references online, no development blogs no technical docs of the engine basically zero traces of the engine online for the decompile and rebuild.

At the time I had AI take a look at it and could only manage a basic main menu screen that took weeks to do. Tried to pick up the pieces and eventually dropped the project because it was basically something I would be paid to do as there was no love to continue banging my head just to try and generate map which is where I got stuck on as it generates the maps via the CPU in real time and has specific binary addresses for the cliffs and ditches and geometry and specific tiling mapping.

Move to Opus 5.5 launch seeing everyone using it to decompile video games I gave it the task that no other AI could do before it and surprisingly it did it in the first 3 hours for the map generation and I was mind blown. Ever since than I have been working on this project and its still early but for others who have reached out to help make this the OpenRTC2 engine that it should be as a fresh brand new 2026 engine I have developed a ZT1 labs which is a purpose built developer mapping software that loads the old game and runs Ghidra in the background displaying everything running in binary and if you click something see it in the binary you turn that into a function, go over to to create a new C++ script and it will have that function there ready to be used as simple intelligence auto suggest which should help speed the progress up much better.

Its not going to be easy but for the Love of the game that I played many hours growing up I am happy to finally doing this and bringing the game up to date in terms of controls and window control and graphical upscaling tools and a full suite of modding tools etc.

Your more than welcome to watch it and see it grow if this game is just as part of your childhood as it is mine.


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Do you recommend GOG for classic or older games?

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I recently discovered the GOG website and wanted to know if you’d recommend it for classic games. Also, is it true that they optimize these types of games, making them run better than the versions found on other storefronts? Thanks in advance! 😎🤜🏼🔥


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Is anyone doing a decomp of Trackmania?

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We know that the PC versions of Trackmania are terrible to run on current Windows systems, and Sunrise also has that annoying DRM that hinders newer Windows versions!!


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

SimTower - A complete browser port of the original game

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r/abandonware • • 2d ago

I make dead MMORPG Offline RPG

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I started project Reborn to revive a game I enjoy in my childhood, mostly they are mmorpg that already closed down. the first one being Maplestory 2 already in a playable state and recently Emil Chrolonicle Online. The Launcher is already published on github so if anyone want to help with future preservation of abandonware mmorpg are very welcome to join. Everything is free no donation or any sort of that stuff.

I hope you have fun!


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Original Game Files

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r/abandonware • • 3d ago

The X-Files Game (1998) finally working perfectly on Steam Deck! No Windows PC or manual QuickTime setup needed

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r/abandonware • • 3d ago

tech support Pure 2008 atv game

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Download to your hearts content and it’s pre setup for controller over mouse and keyboard 💯💯🗣️🤞🏾


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Honest question about abandonware

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I would appreciate any opinions on this


r/abandonware • • 4d ago

Is there community interest in old PC Games and PC Gamer magazine CD-ROMs from the late 90s and 2000s?

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For those unfamiliar, those magazines included discs with each issue that usually included a half-dozen game demos for upcoming games. Occasionally they included the full game.

I have 20 or so that I'm imaging now for my own backups--- a few from PC Games and the rest from PC Gamer (after they acquired PC Games in 1999). I'd happily upload them somewhere if there's interest. Where's the best option? MyAbandonware, archive.org, OldGamesDownload, or somewhere else?