FAQ

A catalogue of pre-installed PC games. Each entry is a complete build: download the archive, unpack it, run the game. There is no store client to install, no account to create and no setup wizard - the updates and patches are already applied to what you download.

Yes. Every listing is a free download, and there is no paid tier, no premium speed and nothing behind a subscription. You are not asked to sign up to download.

No. Browsing and downloading work without signing in. An account exists only so you can leave comments on a game page, and nothing else on the site requires one.

Extract the archive with WinRAR or 7-Zip, then run the executable named in the installation guide on that game page. That guide names the actual file rather than saying "the game executable", because an extracted release can contain a dozen of them - the game, a launcher and several redistributables.

If the game does not start, install the redistributables included with it (usually in a _Redist or _CommonRedist folder). That is the fix for the large majority of "it does nothing when I click it" reports.

Almost always no, and you should still check rather than take that on faith.

Pre-installed builds contain files that antivirus software detects by design: Steam emulator DLLs and online-play fixes such as steam_api64.dll, steamclient64.dll and OnlineFix64.dll. These are flagged as generic "HackTool" or "Crack" detections because of what they do, not because they are infected.

Do not switch your antivirus off. Check which file was flagged. If it is one of those, add the game folder as an exclusion and re-extract so the quarantined file is restored. If it is anything else - especially something in your Windows folder or a file that was not part of the archive - delete the download and tell us which game it was.

On some games. Where it does, the game page carries an Online badge, and that badge is only on games where online play has actually been tested. A game without it is single-player as far as this site is concerned - it is not listed as working and then quietly not working.

Every game page shows the current version and build id at the top of the download panel, and keeps an update history underneath - what changed, from which version to which, and when. Compare the version on the page with the one you have. That history is the reason you do not have to re-download a 40 GB game to find out whether anything changed.

The Recent Updates page lists every build replaced in the last month.

Download the new build, rename your existing folder rather than deleting it, extract the new one, and check it runs. Only then delete the old folder. Keeping the old copy until the new one is proven costs you disk space for ten minutes and saves the download if something is wrong.

Save files usually live in Documents or AppData rather than in the game folder, so they normally survive - but copy them somewhere safe first if the save matters to you.

Almost never in the game folder. Look in Documents, %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA%. The exact path is per-game and easy to find by searching for the game name plus "save location".

Yes - the size is on the card, on the game page and in the download panel before you click anything. It is also a filter: the filter window can narrow the catalogue to games under 10 GB if that is what your connection or your disk can take.

Tell us through the contact page and include the address of the game page. That one line is the difference between a fix in minutes and a search through the catalogue.

New games and new builds go up regularly rather than on a schedule. Recent Updates shows everything replaced in the last month, newest first, and the home page carries the newest additions.

Genres come from the original store listing, which attaches broad labels like "Action" to almost everything. The site deliberately prefers the more specific label when a game has one, so a survival game is filed under Survival rather than Action - but the broad label is still attached, which is why you may see both.

To browse, yes. For downloads it is worth knowing that changing network partway through usually interrupts the transfer, so if you start a download on a VPN, finish it on the VPN.

The DMCA page explains what a takedown notice needs to contain and where to send it. Complete notices are acted on without argument.