win16.page

Welcome to win16.page! This website is dedicated to archiving and cataloguing shareware, freeware and demos of commercial games for 16-bit Windows, from Windows 1.01 to Windows 3.1 (including Win32s)! Additional downloads such as drivers, runtime DLLs and shareware/freeware utilities are also available.

A best effort has been made to archive every known version of every game that is listed on this site - clean sources (eg. no BBS-generated FILE_ID.DIZ or other files, no BBS-injected zip comments that are visible when using pkunzip -d etc.) have been located and used whenever possible. This archiving project could not have been done without DiscMaster, which has been an invaluable resource for rapidly locating and testing all downloads that are available on this site.

Minimum Windows version, CPU and supported common video modes (CGA, Hercules, VGA Monochrome, EGA, VGA, 256/65,536/16 million colours) have been documented to the best ability with vintage hardware for verification. While a number of games do not explicitly support monochrome modes, a subjective analysis has been taken to determine what games are playable on those modes - if you believe there is an error in what has been documented, please leave a comment at anywhere win16.page has been advertised. Please see the bottom of this page for the planned roadmap.

win16.page is designed for 800x600 resolution, though 640x480 is mostly compatible. There is no Javascript, CSS, PHP (apart from random game) or any other dynamic web page scripting - the entire site is generated by bash scripts in pure HTML and compatible with most Windows 3.1 web browsers. 65,536 and 16 million colour screenshots are saved in PNG format, while monochrome, 16 and 256 colour screenshots are saved in GIF format.

There are currently 486 games available to download - last updated 2025-07-15.

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Browse games by letter:

0-9 9 games	A 15 games	B 39 games	C 72 games	D 26 games	E 8 games
F 10 games	G 13 games	H 13 games	I 3 games	J 11 games	K 14 games
L 15 games	M 40 games	N 4 games	O 4 games	P 23 games	Q 1 game
R 8 games	S 56 games	T 42 games	U 1 game	V 2 games	W 48 games
X 2 games	Y 6 games	Z 1 game

Browse games by genre:

Adventure 10 games	Arcade 55 games	Card game 52 games	Casino 10 games	Compilation 12 games
Desktop toy 4 games	Educational 6 games	Maze 9 games	Paddle 5 games	Pinball 1 game
Platformer 3 games	Puzzle 127 games	Role-playing game 3 games	Shmup 22 games	Simulation 11 games
Sports 10 games	Strategy 53 games	Traditional 75 games	Trivia 3 games	Whack-a-mole 15 games

Browse games by multiplayer support:

Local 90 games	Network 2 games	NETBIOS 6 games	IPX/SPX 1 game
Dial-up modem 7 games	Null modem 5 games	TCP/IP 6 games

Browse games by language:

Danish 2 games	Dutch 1 game	English 443 games	French 4 games	German 61 games
Italian 1 game	Portuguese 1 game	Russian 1 game	Spanish 4 games	Swedish 1 game

Browse games by license:

Freeware
105 games

Shareware
382 games

Demo
10 games

Liberated
4 games

Browse games by first release year:

1986 1 game	1987 1 game	1988 6 games	1989 6 games	1990 51 games	1991 81 games
1992 110 games	1993 97 games	1994 55 games	1995 37 games	1996 25 games	1997 8 games
1998 3 games	1999 2 games	2000 2 games	2003 1 game

Browse games by minimum Windows version:

Windows 1.01 14 games	Windows 2.03 8 games	Windows 3.0 335 games
Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 58 games	Windows 3.1 162 games

Browse games by minimum CPU:

8088 130 games	V20 49 games	80286 - Real Mode 4 games	80286 - Standard Mode 363 games
80386 - Standard Mode 14 games	80386 - Enhanced Mode 27 games

Browse games by minimum RAM:

1MB 181 games	1.5MB 236 games	2MB 106 games	2.5MB 22 games	3MB 24 games	3.5MB 6 games
4MB 10 games	4.5MB 2 games	5MB 6 games	6MB 1 game

Browse games by video mode:

CGA 134 games	Hercules 241 games	VGA Monochrome 326 games	EGA 334 games
VGA 485 games	256 colours 82 games	65,536 colours 22 games

Browse games by sound support:

System sounds 48 games	PC speaker 70 games	Covox 1 game	Adlib 1 game
Sound Blaster 145 games	MIDI 46 games

Browse games by additional runtimes:

Asymetrix ToolBook 6 games	CA-Realizer 2 games	KnowledgePro 1 game	Visual Basic 1 8 games	Visual Basic 2 10 games
Visual Basic 3 11 games	WinG 2 games	Win32s 26 games

Current list of features to implement/document:

Broadening the list of genres - please provide feedback for games that should be recategorised!
Cropping the height of thumbnails (maybe? requesting feedback)

Current priority list of games to document is as follows:

non-Visual Basic games that run on a 286 or lower
WinG games
Win32s games
non-Visual Basic, non-WinG, non-Win32s games that require a 386
Visual Basic games that run on a 286
Visual Basic games that require a 386

Current estimate of total games (including those already archived) is somewhere around 1300-1500.