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A guide to all of the games that come with Windows Vista
Updated on September 11, 2020
All versions of Windows Vista come preloaded with free games. Some of the games are updated versions of classics (like chess), while others are completely original. If you no longer have Vista installed, you can still play all of these games on the web, and some are even included with Windows 10.
Information in this article applies to all versions of Windows Vista including the Home and Enterprise editions.
Which Games Come With Windows Vista?
The games available depend on which version of Vista you’re running:
- Vista Home Basic and Starter editions include FreeCell, Hearts, Minesweeper, Purble Place, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
- Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions include the games listed above as well as Chess Titans, InkBall, and Mahjong Titans.
To find your games, open the Start Menu and select All Programs > Games > Games Explorer.
Mahjong Titans
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Mahjong Titans is a form of solitaire that is played with tiles instead of cards. The object of this game is for a player to remove all tiles from the board by finding matching pairs.
To remove tiles, they must be «free», meaning they can slide free of the pile without bumping into other tiles. The class and number (or letter) of the tiles must be the same. In addition to the three main classes, there are unique tiles on the board (Winds, Flowers, Dragons, and Seasons) that must be matched.
Purble Place
Microsoft
Purble Place is a set of three educational games for children: Purble Pairs, Comfy Cakes, and Purble Shop. These games teach colors, shapes, and pattern recognition in entertaining and challenging ways.
Purble Pairs is a memory game where the goal is to remove all the tiles from the board by finding matching pairs. Comfy Cakes challenges players to replicate cake decoration patterns, and Purble Shop is a logic game similar to Guess Who.
InkBall
Microsoft
The object of InkBall is to sink all colored balls into the matching colored holes. The game ends when a ball enters the hole of a different color, or the game timer runs out. Players draw ink strokes to stop balls from entering the wrong holes and pointing them in the right direction. Gray balls can enter any color hole, and a gray hole can accept any color ball, but no points are awarded.
When a ball bounces off an ink stroke, a wall, or another ball, it does so at the same angle that it struck. An ink stroke will disappear when a ball hits it. If you raise the level of difficulty, ball speed will increase, and there will be more balls, holes, and more complex boards.
Chess Titans
Microsoft
Chess Titans is a complex strategy game. Winning requires planning moves ahead, watching your opponent, and making changes to your strategy as the game progresses. The object is to put your opponent’s king in checkmate. The more of your opponent’s pieces you capture, the more vulnerable that king becomes. Playing Chess Titans is an excellent way to learn the game of chess as you can undo your previous moves when in a pinch.
Solitaire
Microsoft
Solitaire is the classic seven-column card game you play by yourself. The object of the game is to organize all cards by suit in sequential order (from Ace to King) in the upper-right corner on the screen. You accomplish this by shuffling cards between alternating columns of red and black cards. Drag one card on top of another to make your move.
Spider Solitaire
Microsoft
Spider Solitaire is a two-deck solitaire game. The object of Spider Solitaire is to remove all cards from the ten stacks at the top of the window in the fewest number of moves. To remove cards, transfer the cards from one column to another until you line up a suit of cards in order from King to Ace. When you line up a complete suit, those cards are removed.
FreeCell
Microsoft
FreeCell is another solitaire-type card game that has been a staple of Windows operating systems. To win, the player must move all cards to the four home cells. Each home cell holds a suit of cards in ascending order, beginning with the Ace. Since cards are dealt face up at the start of the game, FreeCell is easier than traditional solitaire for beginners.
Minesweeper
Microsoft
Minesweeper is a game of memory, reasoning, and luck. The object is to reveal the entire game board while avoiding concealed mines. As the player turns over blank squares, clues are given regarding the proximity of nearby mines. If a player clicks on a mine, the game is over. Since your first move is always a blind guess, that means the game can end as soon as it begins
Hearts
Microsoft
In the Windows Vista version of Hearts, one player challenges three other virtual players simulated by the computer. To win the game, the player must get rid of all their cards while avoiding points. Points are scored whenever you draw a heart card or the queen of spades. As soon as one player has more than 100 points, the player with the lowest score wins.
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Vista promised to be revolutionary, but was poorly received due to serious performance and reliability issues. Controversially, Microsoft let OEMs sell weak PCs as «Vista-capable» even though they couldn’t handle its fancy new graphical features.[1] The backlash made most users stick to XP (which many continued to use well into the lifespan of Vista’s successors). Microsoft had to work fast and produce the much improved Windows 7.
PC games from 2007 to 2008
| Cover | Title | Genre | Description | Where To Buy | Screenshot |
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| Aquaria | Metroidvania | Massive award-winning indie title created by Spelunky programmer Derek Yu and Crayon Physics Deluxe composer Alec Holowka. Aquaria features huge underwater environments with an emphasis on exploration, challenging-but-not-stupid boss battles and an absolutely phenomenal soundtrack. Before you ask: yes, there is a nude mod.
An absolute must-have for any Metroidvania fan. |
Steam GOG |
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| Audiosurf | Rhythm | A block-matching puzzle-type game, where the levels are generated completely from whatever music tracks you choose to play.Fast music gets you quick and hectic stages, while slow music lets you ride easy. Excellent replay value, since unlike other music games, you’re only limited by the size of your music collection.Also comes with a set of downloadable music updated regularly if you’re a boring person and don’t have your own music, and you can scrobble the music you play to last.fm if you’re into that kind of thing. | Humble Steam |
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| Bionic Commando Rearmed | Platformer | A remake of the 1988 classic for Nintendo Entertainment System. Features HD graphics (enjoy your bloom). BCR2 is console-exclusive, but don’t worry too much, reviews said it was not as good as the first. | Humble Steam |
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| Bioshock | FPS | The spiritual successor to System Shock (though more on the FPS side of FPS/RPG), set in a failed undersea city. Very atmospheric, can get pretty creepy, and has a pretty decent storyline. Also can be used as a crash course in Objectivism. | Humble Steam |
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| Cortex Command | Action RTS | A crazy RTS-like-side-scrolling 2-dimensional game in which your objective is to defend your brain by controlling an army of hivemind robots. You manually control a single robot at a time but can freely switch bodies at any moment. Features a campaign (unfinished) and split screen co-op with up to four players, in which you must defend your brain for as long as possible. Also boasts a massive amount of mods which add new weapons and levels. Has an active modding community linked in the main site, but beware, they’re the most cancerous forumites you’ll meet. | Steam | ||
| Cryostasis | FPS / Survival Horror | You are Alexander Nesterov, a Russian meteorologist, tasked to investigate the North Wind, a nuclear icebreaker that has become shipwrecked near the North Pole. It soon becomes clear that he is not alone, as the crew as undergone a strange metamorphosis.
Has a really nice atmosphere (especially if you like the feeling of solitude in horror games) and a unique gameplay mechanic known as the Mental Echo. Sometimes you encounter dead crewmen and can change their fate by seeing the last moments of their life and correcting the mistakes that lead to their death, thus changing circumstances in the present, such as unlocking a door. |
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| Crysis (series) |
FPS | In the near future of 2020, North Korean forces have taken over some Pacific archipelago, and a nanosuit-clad squad is sent to rescue American archeologists from there. But they find something there that could change the world… or, more aptly, something there finds them.
People used to joke that Crysis is a benchmark tool, not a game, since you needed a monster of a PC to run it well. But now that technology has caught up, we all can see what a beaut it is! You have a lot of leeway to explore the absurdly detailed island by using the nanosuit’s powers. And if your PC is truly a beast, look into various mods to make it even more impressive. The sidequel, Crysis Warhead, is also well worth it, adding more of the same with some extra weapons. The other sequels are also very good, but tend to get flack for being more linear. Tip: read this comic book to know what happened between 1 and 2. The whole series (except Warhead) got remastered, but the older versions are often considered better! |
GOG Steam |
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| Dead Space | TPS | A well-made third person shooter set in space (of all places) fighting space zombies (of all things). Notable for its dismemberment mechanic, where to kill an enemy, you have to cut their limbs off. Also, it has no HUD, instead displaying all relevant information inside the game. Uses some good scare tactics, but misses out on some opportunities it had. Also on 360 and PS3. | GOG Steam |
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| Elona | Roguelike | Wacky eastern roguelike/fantasy life sim that pretends its from the west. Easier than probably every other roguelike, but offers a shit ton more stuff to do other than dungeon crawl. Also, Shena’s ass is the best. | Free | ||
| Europa Universalis 3 | Strategy | A very good game that lets you play as any country in between 1399 and 1820, and unlike other paradox games this one actually has some tutorials in it! You can take little known countries like Ryukyu and make them into giant empires that cover the world, or take giant empires that cover the world and keep it from falling into decay and destruction, like the Timurid empire, or to a lesser extent the Byzantine empire. It is much easier to play than paradoxes other games and you can (after doing the tutorials) jump right in and if you still have any confusion you can just read the EU3 wiki.Oh and make sure to get Europa Universalis 3: Chronicles, otherwise you’ll be missing out on A LOT | GOG Steam |
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| Fallout 3 | RPG/FPS | Beginning with your father asking you what gender you are (and the option to change your mind at the age of 19), this sandbox RPG has been described as Bethesda’s Oblivion, but with guns. Explore a post-apocalyptic wasteland as the Lone Wanderer after escaping the Vault your father left you to die in. Butthurt optional. Adds Karma to the mix, allowing you to be either a saint or a total asshole who enslaves children and blows up a town. Obtaining the Game of the Year Edition is highly recommended, as there are a number of excellent DLC quests, as well as the Broken Steel expansion, which allows the game to continue after the original ending. Also available on PS3 and 360.As usual, has a HUGE modding scene, which can be abused to dramatically improve your gaming experience, but isn’t for everybody, since you probably will have to read a bunch of stuff in order to not fuck up your game.
DISCLAIMER: If you are a big fan and loved Fallout 1 and 2, you might be disappointed in this game. Just treat it as «Oblivion with guns.» For something more in line with the classics, play Wasteland 2. |
Epic GOG Humble Steam |
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| Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone | RPG | Arche, having moved to a new home in the town of Tonkiness, ended up attending the only school in the area. It is the school for children aspiring to be magic users: the Minasa-Ratis Magic School.
Despite the innocent appearance of the game, the gameplay itself is quite unforgiving, requires you to think and use what abilities you are given in order to win so button mashing doesn’t work. The combat is very fun and you can switch between any of the party members, all have a different set of abilities. |
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| Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved | Shoot ‘Em Up | Fun and flashy arcade-style shooter with graphics that might just give epileptics something to wave their arms about. | Steam | ||
| King’s Bounty: The Legend | RPG / Strategy | Rrrruskie RPG/Strategy hybrid (NOT SRPG). There are stats, classes and items for your hero, but combat plays out like a SRPG with different troops beating the shit out of each other. Good fun. | Epic GOG Humble Steam |
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| Left 4 Dead | FPS | Co-operative multiplayer FPS involving zombie hordes and an AI «Director» that creates situations intelligently based on the players’ conditions and actions. Headshots are superb, and the game can feel wonderfully epic when the numbers of attacking zombies reaches its peak. Casual, but due to being easily accessible for all gamers, lots of unobtrusive hand-holding and non-competitive gameplay make it a great entry point for getting friends and family away from the Wii and into ‘real’ gaming. | Steam | ||
| Mass Effect | RPG / TPS | You play Commander Shepard in Bioware’s first fully voice-acted game. The gameplay is a not-always-polished hybrid of an RPG and a third-person cover shooter, with technological and ‘biotic’ (psychic) abilities usable by certain classes. The game has a well-structured narrative and draws heavily from 70’s/80’s sci-fi. Highlights include the detailed lore which paints the Mass Effect universe as particularly hard sci-fi and the wide variety of equipment customization, along with the ‘feeling’ of an epic space opera. Downsides include the clunky interface which gets cluttered with hundreds of nearly-identical guns, a lack of strong variation in sidequests, and simplified role-playing compared to previous Bioware games. It was Bioware’s last game as an independent company, before becoming a subsidiary of EA. Take that as you will. Also available on Xbox 360. | Epic Steam |
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| Mount & Blade | Action / RPG / Sim | Recently re-released as Warband, with a new faction. Extremely active mod community. Roam around a large world, equipping a small army, and unique companions, to fight for your king- or for yourself. Siege castles and pillage towns, compete in tournaments or charge into battle with as many as 150 or more troops on the battlefield. | GOG Humble Steam |
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| Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer | RPG | Despite the disappointing original campaign, Neverwinter Nights 2’s first expansion pack, Mask of the Betrayer, provides one of the most compelling and intriguing stories since Planescape: Torment. Cursed with an insatiable, spiritual hunger that devours you from within, you must attempt to put an end to your condition, a quest that, depending on your decisions, can propel you to utter damnation or unimaginable power. Thanks to Obsidian’s knack for writing, those decisions include a whole host of exciting and believable evil choices that never fall into the usual clichés. | GOG | ||
| Overlord | Action / Adventure / Strategy | Take the role of the titular evil Overlord and command a legion of gremlin-like minions to take over the world and defeat seven corrupted heroes. Plays pretty much like the Gamecube game Pikmin, but with more attention towards the action-adventure part. Lots of tongue-in-cheek humor and some good puzzles inbetween looting and pillaging. As for the strategic elements, this game WILL punish you for acting recklessly, specially on the Legendary difficulty: Rushing into battle alone is a sure way to get yourself killed, just like mindless sending minions against large groups of enemies is guaranteed to thin your troops quickly, since it doesn’t take long for the game to introduce enemies with special moves that can kill dozens of critters with a single hit, if they are close enough.
The expansion, Raising Hell, adds a few new areas and a new endgame that ties the story into Overlord II. |
GOG Steam |
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| Penumbra: Black Plague | Survival Horror / Adventure | Continuing the story, you can expect more of the same mindfucking and puzzles, except now there’s no combat, fuckers. Best be learning how to run. | Steam | ||
| Penumbra: Overture | Survival Horror / FPS / Adventure | A FPS set in 2000 where a scientist is led to Greenland in search of his dead father. He falls into a mineshaft where he is only equipped with a flashlight(which runs on batteries) and a glowstick. The game blends a very unique physics element where you must click and drag items to pull them open/closed. Enemies include wolves, giant spiders, giant worms, and humanoid like creatures. Only weapons are a pipe and hammer. Has tons of puzzles. | Steam | ||
| Portal | Puzzle | You’re a «volunteer» at an experimental research facility managed by an AI who is lacking in ethics and doubtful sanity. Your job is to test a device that can connect two surfaces together. You are promised cake if you complete the tests successfully (spoiler: the cake is horrible-screaming-death flavoured). | Steam | ||
| Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale | RPG, Sim | YOU PLAY AS AN ADORABLE LOLI. Your adventurer father has run off and left you in debt. To pay it off, you have to open an item shop for the adventurers of the world to shop in. Manage sales, special orders and the store layout, hire heroes to explore dungeons and find treasure, try to survive against the ever-increasing weekly payments. Deciding which items to sell and which to equip on your heroes is an important factor. A really charming and original game. | GOG Steam |
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| S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl + Clear Sky + Call of Pripyat | FPS | A very atmospheric game. Amazing FPS with freedom being the key gameplay element. Explore the forbidden zone scavenging and bartering for weapons and items etc, taking missions, and trying to avoid all the seriously fucked up shit that is going down near Chernobyl. Has some great mods, such as AMK, L.U.R.K and Complete, that overhaul the game. Hard as balls. No, don’t get Oblivion Lost, it stole features from AMK. Don’t even get the «Complete» mods either as they tend to fuck the game up a lot. For first playthroughs, you should check out the Starter Pack for SoC.
The sequels are more of the same as the first but with improved graphics and minor gameplay differences here and there. Play the three of them by the order seen on the title for INFINITE PLEASURE. Get the Sky Reclamation Project mod for CS. CoP doesn’t really need mods for first playthroughs since it is, for the most part, polished enough as it is, though be on the look out for some anyway. Now, get out of here, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. |
GOG Humble Steam |
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| Sins of a Solar Empire | RTS | Epic scale RTS. Control one of three factions and try to annihilate your opponents. The map is arranged into a web of specific zones like planets, asteroids, stars etc interconnected by phase lines, in other words routes connecting the said zones. You colonize, upgrade planets; build defenses; manage fleets etc. Shit gets crazy with large maps as you try to strategically place your fleets and defenses. However, could use some more unit diversity. Nonetheless definitely for the seasoned RTS veteran. Note the slow game process (a short game can go for up to 5 hours). Also has space pirates.
Re-released as Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, which is a stand-alone expansion that enhances and adds much and includes all of the previous expansions along with the original game |
GOG Steam Humble |
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| The Void/ TENSION/ Typrop (RUS) | Mindfuck, Survival-Adventure, Horror | Another weird game by the creators of Pathologic. You end up in some sort of limbo land, where you’re not being told shit and better start wrapping your head around the place as you are quickly dying, time stripping away color from your body. Enigmatic naked Sisters are your only guides in this very bleak and desolate place… At least if you can reach them before starving, or being confronted by their much less friendly counterparts.
It’s grim, even in the later parts of the game when crazy shit keeps happening, relying more on eeriness than full-on horror (which is technically inexistent here). Most players starve out of color in their first attempt, but the further you are in the game, the harder it is to become really stuck, while paradoxically your prospects for survival become always dimmer and dimmer, hence the titular «tension». Little-known yet awesome game. Note: It’s quite tough: Survival and resource management are a essential part of the core-gameplay and despite the great atmosphere, things might get rage-inducing at times. If you’re having trouble, this guide has some tips that might help without spoiling too much. |
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| The Witcher | Action-RPG | One of the best Hack-and-Slash RPGs to come out in recent years. Based off of The Witcher novels, which are recommended to be read before playing this game. Great combo based battle system, and a very well done story make this game well worth playing.
NOTE: if you have the original boxed release, be sure to get the Enhanced Edition patch, it’s free and a massive improvement, adding tons of bug fixes, faster loading, improved script, voice acting, and generally makes the game much better. Also, boobs. |
GOG Humble Steam |
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| Tomb Raider: Anniversary | Action-adventure | Badass adventurer Lara Croft explores trap-ridden ruins around the world to find the secret of Atlantis. Gorgeous remake/reimagining of the first game. | GOG Humble Steam |
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| Tomb Raider: Underworld | Action-adventure | Continuing from TR: Legend, Lara seeks for her missing mother while bumping into supernatural stuff from Norse and Arthurian legends. The last good game in the series, as the next reboot made it more «modern» — that is, cinematic tripe for filthy casuals. | GOG Humble Steam |
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| X3: Terran Conflict | BIG Space Sim | One of the best space simulators, you fly ships (any ships, from small to capitals), you trade, you fight, you build your own stations ( and empire ) you do missions, you pirate, you hire pilots to do things for you ( like sending them on trading runs ). Learning curve like in dwarf fortress, but its worth it. Note: This game is a bitch to play. Your starting ship is a piece of shit if you play custom games. | GOG Humble Steam |
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Video games have been included in versions of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting from Windows 1.0, all published by Microsoft. Some games that have appeared in Microsoft Entertainment Pack and Microsoft Plus! have been included in subsequent versions of Windows as well. Microsoft Solitaire has been included in every version of Windows since Windows 3.0, except Windows 8 and 8.1. The latest version of Windows, Windows 11, includes Microsoft Solitaire Collection and Surf.
Microsoft planned to include games when developing Windows 1.0 in 1983–1984. Pre-release versions of Windows 1.0 initially included another game, Puzzle, but it was scrapped in favor of Reversi, based on the board game of the same name.[1] Reversi was included in Windows versions up to Windows 3.1. Solitaire was developed in 1988 by the intern Wes Cherry.[2][3][4] The card deck itself was designed by Susan Kare, who was known for her work on icon designs for the original Macintosh.[5]
Microsoft intended Solitaire to «soothe people intimidated by the operating system,» and at a time where many users were still unfamiliar with graphical user interfaces, it proved useful in familiarizing them with the use of a mouse, such as the drag-and-drop technique required for moving cards.[6] According to Microsoft telemetry, Solitaire was among the three most-used Windows programs and FreeCell was seventh, ahead of productivity-based applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel.[7][7] Lost business productivity by employees playing Solitaire became a common concern since the game was included in Windows by default.[8]
FreeCell was introduced as a bundled game in Windows NT 3.1. The game was available for Windows 3.1, as it was included in installations of Win32s for the purposes of verifying that the 32-bit thunking layer was installed correctly.[9]
The Microsoft Hearts Network was included with Windows for Workgroups 3.1, as a showcase of NetDDE technology by enabling multiple players to play simultaneously across a computer network.[10] This technology would lead to the inclusion of various online multiplayer titles under the Internet brand, which were included in Windows Me, XP and 7, alongside other online multiplayer-based titles.[11] Support for Internet games for Windows Me and XP ended on July 31, 2019, and for Windows 7 on January 22, 2020.[11] 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet is a version of the «Space Cadet» pinball table from the 1995 video game Full Tilt! Pinball.[12]
In Minesweeper for Windows Vista and 7, the game comes with an alternate «Flower Garden» style, alongside the default «Minesweeper» style.[13] This is due to controversy over the original land mine theme of the game being potentially insensitive, and the «Flower Garden» style was used as the default theme in «sensitive areas».[14]
Several third party games, such as Candy Crush Saga and Disney Magic Kingdoms, have been included as advertisements on the Start menu in Windows 10, and may also be automatically installed by the operating system.[15][16] Windows 11 includes the Xbox app, which allows users to access the PC Game Pass video game subscription service.[17][18] Additionally, versions of the Microsoft Edge browser from 2020 onwards (bundled with Windows 10 and 11) include the Surf game.[19]
Microsoft Casual Games
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Starting from 2012 onwards, with the release of Windows 8, updated versions of previously bundled games are now under the brand Microsoft Casual Games, in addition to several brand new games. With the exception of Solitaire Collection being included in Windows 10 and 11, these games are not included with Windows, and are instead available as ad-supported free downloads in Microsoft Store.[20][21]
Premium monthly and annual subscriptions are available, which removes advertisements and offers several gameplay benefits, a move that has been criticized by reviewers as a way to «nickel and dime» users, since previous versions of Solitaire and previously bundled games did not include any advertisements or paid subscriptions.[22][23] There are five Windows games under the Microsoft Casual Games banner:[24]
- Solitaire Collection
- Minesweeper / Treasure Hunt
- Mahjong
- Ultimate Word Games
- Sudoku
- Jigsaw
| Games included with Microsoft Windows releases | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 2.0 and 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1[25] | NT 3.1, NT 3.5 and NT 3.51 | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | Me | XP | Vista[26][27] | 7[28] | 8 and 8.1 | 10[20] | 11 | |
| Reversi | ||||||||||||||||
| Solitaire | — | [a] | [a] | |||||||||||||
| Minesweeper | — | |||||||||||||||
| Hearts | — | [b] | ||||||||||||||
| FreeCell | — | [a] | [a] | |||||||||||||
| Hover! | — | [c] | ||||||||||||||
| 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet | — | |||||||||||||||
| Internet Backgammon | — | |||||||||||||||
| Internet Checkers | — | |||||||||||||||
| Internet Hearts | — | |||||||||||||||
| Internet Reversi | — | |||||||||||||||
| Internet Spades | — | |||||||||||||||
| Spider Solitaire | — | [a] | [a] | |||||||||||||
| Inkball | — | [d] | [e] | |||||||||||||
| Purble Place | — | |||||||||||||||
| Mahjong Titans | — | [e] | [f] | |||||||||||||
| Chess Titans | — | [e] | [f] | |||||||||||||
| Tinker | — | [g] | ||||||||||||||
| Hold ‘Em | — | [g] | ||||||||||||||
| Solitaire Collection | — | |||||||||||||||
| Surf | — | [h] | [i] |
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack
- List of Microsoft Windows components
- ^ a b c d e f As part of Microsoft Solitaire Collection
- ^ Only included with Windows for Workgroups 3.1
- ^ Only included with CD-ROM version
- ^ Only included with Tablet PC Edition
- ^ a b c Only included with Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions
- ^ a b Only included with Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions
- ^ a b Only included with Ultimate edition
- ^ Included via the Microsoft Edge browser from 2020 onwards[19]
- ^ Included via the Microsoft Edge browser[19]
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- ^ Cherry, Wes. «Interview with Wes Cherry – B3TA.com 2008». B3ta.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
- ^ «Wes Cherry on Reddit about Solitaire». January 4, 2016. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ «Susan Kare personal website showing her design for Microsoft Solitaire». Kare.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
- ^ Garreau, Joel (March 9, 1994). «Office Minefield». The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 23, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ a b Dear, Brian (2017). «27. Leaving the Nest». The Friendly Orange Glow. New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 502–503. ISBN 978-1-101-87156-0.
- ^ Church, George J. (October 12, 1998). «Quarterly Business Report: Do Computers Really Save Money?». Time. Time Inc. Archived from the original on November 7, 2007.
- ^ «How to Troubleshoot Win32s Installation Problems». web.mit.edu. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
- ^ Craig Stinson (June 15, 1993). «Open Windows for Workgroups». PC Magazine. p. 292. Archived from the original on August 22, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ a b «Farewell to Microsoft Internet Games on Windows XP, Windows ME, and Windows 7». Microsoft Community. Archived from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- ^ updated, Zac Bowden last (May 20, 2022). «Windows features we loved and miss from earlier OS versions». Windows Central. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
- ^ «Column from Tony «Tablesaw» Delgado about puzzle games». Gamesetwatch.com. February 26, 2007. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
- ^ Kaushik (February 10, 2010). «The Minesweeper Controversy: How Flower Garden came into Windows Vista». Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ Webster, Andrew (May 14, 2015). «Candy Crush will be automatically installed on Windows 10». The Verge. Archived from the original on October 31, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
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- ^ a b c Warren, Tom (February 26, 2020). «Microsoft is adding a secret SkiFree-like surfing game into its Edge browser». The Verge. Archived from the original on June 2, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
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- Microsoft Casual Games website
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PC
2008
18.24 Гб
GTA 4 / ГТА 4 (2008) PC RePack от Xatab
Разработчик: Rockstar North и Rockstar Toronto
Год: 2008
Жанр: Action, Racing (Cars, Motorcycles), 3D, 3rd Person
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от Xatab
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Вшита
PC
2008
4.38 Гб
GTA 4: Extreme (2008) PC Rip
Разработчик: Rockstar Games
Год: 2008
Жанр: Action, Racing, 3D, 3rd Person
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: Rip
Язык интерфейса: Русский, Английский
Таблетка: Не требуется
PC
2010
18.36 Гб
GTA 4: Complete Edition (2010) PC RePack
Разработчик: Rockstar North
Год: 2010
Жанр: Action, Shooter, Racing, 3D, 3rd, Person
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Вшита
PC
2018
779.32 Мб
Far Out (2018) PC RePack от qoob
Разработчик: Escapism Artworks
Год: 2018
Жанр: Adventure, Quest, Indie
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от qoob
Язык интерфейса: Русский, Английский
Таблетка: вшито (CODEX)
PC
2012
8.94 Гб
Call of Duty 4: Zombie Rotu (2012) PC
Разработчик: Infinity Ward/Activision/Mod Rotu2.1 by Bipo
Год: 2012
Жанр: Шутер от первого лица
Платформа: PC
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Не требуется
PC
2005
3.72 Гб
Call of Duty 2 (2005) PC RePack от Canek77
Разработчик: Infinity Ward
Год: 2005
Жанр: Action (Shooter), 3D, 1st Person
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от Canek77
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Не требуется
PC
2010
6.35 Гб
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) PC RePack
Разработчик: Treyarch
Год: 2010
Жанр: Action (Shooter), 3D, 1st Person
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Вшита
PC
2017
345.86 Мб
Slay the Spire (2017) PC RePack от qoob
Разработчик: Mega Crit Games
Год: 2017
Жанр: Strategy, Indie
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от qoob
Язык интерфейса: Русский, Английский, MULTi7
Таблетка: вшито (SSE)
PC
2018
870.48 Мб
Crossing Souls (2018) PC Лицензия GOG
Разработчик: Fourattic
Год: 2018
Жанр: Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Action, Indie
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: Лицензия GOG
Язык интерфейса: Русский, Английский, MULTi
Таблетка: Не требуется {DRM-Free}
PC
2018
969.58 Мб
Algo Bot (2018) PC RePack от qoob
Разработчик: Fishing Cactus
Год: 2018
Жанр: Simulation, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от qoob
Язык интерфейса: Русский, Английский, MULTi9
Таблетка: Вшито (RELOADED)
PC
2017
1.7 Гб
HIVESWAP: Act 1 (2017) PC RePack от LinXP
Разработчик: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Год: 2017
Жанр: Квест
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: RePack от LinXP
Язык интерфейса: Русский
Таблетка: Вшита (ALI213)
PC
2017
249.14 Мб
Fight’N Rage (2017) PC
Разработчик: sebagamesdev
Год: 2017
Жанр: Action, Beat’em up, Инди
Платформа: PC
Язык интерфейса: Английский, Испанский
Таблетка: Вшита (ALI213)
PC
2018
2.32 Гб
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds (2018) PC Лицензия
Разработчик: MAGES
Год: 2018
Жанр: Action
Платформа: PC
Тип издания: Лицензия
Язык интерфейса: Английский, французский, итальянский, немецкий, испанский, японский
Таблетка: Присутствует