I have been out of the game for a while, but intend to pirate games of the classical asshole-publishers, such as Ubisoft. I know how to do all of that with Movies and TV Shows, but for PC Games, I am lacking legit sources and unfortunately, Impress is out as well.
How does one pirate PC Games in 2026, via torrent or usenet?
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Steamrip is your friend
I’m particularly fond of steamrip.com
Nothing to install. Just download and play.
Highly recommend FitGirl’s repacks, which is listed there. I don’t pirate many games these days, but when I do, her releases have always been clean and working for me, even running her installers under Proton on Linux worked without a hitch (for Sims 4, I think? was probably the last game I said “no I’m not fucking paying that”).
FitGirl rings a bell — thanks for mentioning!
What kind of games are you looking for?
There are several high profile gaming classics on archive.org:
Here are several Valve games:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"Valve+Corporation"
Here you have some Bioshock releases:
https://archive.org/search?query=bioshock&tab=software
I read that Epic released Unreal Tournament 2004 on Archive.org a few years ago shortly after they killed the master server:
https://archive.org/search?tab=software&query=unreal+tournament
There are plenty more to find over there
I keep on forgetting how many beautiful things are on archive.org. I was primarily looking for new’ish AAA titles, which usually get DMCA’d into oblivion. However, I will take a look at archive.org again, because I wanted to look at some MSDOS classics, too.
I wouldn’t, simply because most game publishers favour Windows, and Windows is the least secure OS out there. While some legitimately purchased PC games do contain malware (such as rootkits — typically, these are used to ensure you are not cheating in online matches, but some are also used to ensure only people who paid for the game can play it), the fact that hobbyists are volunteering their time to bypass these checks and either injecting their own code in, or having you run a program that does so on your machine (a cracker), you have to wonder if they are entirely altruistic. Sure, there are some the community trusts, like FitGirl. But you never know.
What I like is when people share the GOG installers. For those who don’t know, GOG is a game storefront that used to be part of CD Projekt Red (The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077) but has since spun off on its own. More importantly, their installers are DRM free and work offline. If a game is available on GOG and there’s also a torrent of the cracked Steam version or whatever, I would be VERY wary of the latter, since the game already exists DRM-free. So you have to ask yourself why you should run third party code. Sure, it may be that the cracked version came first, but if it’s on GOG, the cracked one should just go away. It’s fine that the crack was accomplished, but there’s simply no need to trust the cracker to not infect your system, when the game is already available DRM-free. And, in my experience, the GOG installers are pretty easy to come by. And, IIRC, you can verify their checksum against GOG itself to verify the file has not been altered.
Thanks for your valuable input. I am a Linux user and would run the games only via Proton/Wine. I am very careful when it comes to cracked games, as I had too many viruses during my Windows times.
DRM free games are the best choice, obviously, which is why I always buy those games on GOG. And to make it clear, I still love to spend a lot on games, just not on EA, Ubisoft, etc. The only exception here is Bethesda, because I am a TES addict.
Linux isn’t inherently safer. It’s only less of a risk to run pirated games on it, because fewer people are using it.
The same way as anything else: find a torrent tracker, download, install, play.
He asked how to pirate games, not how to get keylogged and ransomwared.
You know, I have been pirating since eDonkey times and I have my fair share of experience, which is exactly the reason for me to ask here. It is easy to find something to download. But as mentioned by others, I’d rather have a clean system, with working software, without any hidden keyloggers or cryptominers.
But you do you!
You asked “how”, not “where”.
So your task is just finding a tracker you can trust enough. There are many ones with rather serious moderation where catching some “virus” is an extremely rare event.And yet you still were not able to help me in my quest to find those “good” spots, so I am unsure what your goal is here.
DM’d, I’ve got a few private tracker invites
