FREE! The Internet Archive hosts images of Unreal and Unreal Tournament, two key classics on which Epic Games' empire was built. Epic's overall relationship with Unreal is…complicated. Officially, the series came to an end with Unreal Tournament 3 in 2007,

Game preservation, or lack thereof, is a hot topic among gamers and developers at the moment. So it’s good to hear that the owners of an important bit of gaming history are both aware that their games are being shared online for free and explicitly endorsing it.

The game preservationists at OldUnreal have posted the original versions of *Unreal* and *Unreal Tournament* for free online.

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Epic Games was supposed to allow Old Unreal fans to make Unreal and Unreal Tournament available for free, though not unconditionally.

Unreal and Unreal Tournament, the first two titles to use developer Epic Games' now hugely popular Unreal engine and which spawned an entire FPS franchise, are now available to download and play for free via the Internet Archive. And yes, it's with Epic's permission.

Iconic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament, which helped establish Epic Games as a shooter powerhouse, are now free for everyone to download and play.

Game of the Year Edition, two boomer shooters that helped propel Epic Games into the spotlight back in the late 1990s, are now available to download for no cost on Archive.org.