Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along wit

Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal (updated)

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Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along with turning off servers, but now it's a bit easier to get them running again.

The news comes thanks to the OldUnreal team, who have been publishing patches for the likes of Unreal Tournament for a long time now. Shared in the GamingOnLinux Discord yesterday, was the news that the OldUnreal team are now providing easy installers for both the original classics: Unreal Tournament and Unreal.

However, to be clear, these installers actually pull the ISO downloads from the Internet Archive. OldUnreal's team said (via their Discord) yesterday they actually now have "Epic's approval to distribute the Unreal Gold ISO". A few days before, another OldUnreal team member also mentioned (via Discord) how "With Epic's permission" they were linking to the downloads from the Internet Archive for both games.

Their installers for Unreal Tournament and Unreal are currently Windows-only, so hopefully Linux builds will come eventually. For Linux, there's actually a Flathub installer for Unreal Tournament that pulls in OldUnreal updates too, but you still need to grab the content yourself (available in the Internet Archive). The OldUnreal team also pointed out there's Lutris installers for both Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

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