Download Windows 7 Games for Windows 11 (2024)

Here you can download Windows 7 Games for Windows 11. You will get Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Minesweeper, FreeCell, Hearts and the rest of the classic card and board games of the set. The games will continue working where you left off.

Starting in Windows 8, Microsoft no longer ships classic games with the OS. Instead, it offers you a Store version of the games. The new games include ads, have worse performance, and come with a different gameplay. Many users are not happy with that change. This is where the classic Windows 7 Games package comes into play.

The game package has reached version 3, and now it is fully compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8. Besides the games itself, it also received a number of improvements for Windows 11. The installer now supports High DPI and doesn't look blurry any longer. The non-working Game Explorer no longer appears in the Windows 11 Start menu. The Internet Games are now optional and not checked by default.

Update 2022/11/10: The installer has been updated to version 3.1 and is now compatible with Windows 11 22H2+. It doesn't throw the error like

Error opening file for writing: C:\Windows\System32\en-US\cmncliM.dll.mui

To download Windows 7 Games for Windows 11, follow the instructions below.

Get Windows 7 Games for Windows 11

1. Download the ZIP archive with games using this link.
2. Unpack and execute the file Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe.
3. Follow the setup wizard, and select which games you want to install on Windows 11.
4. Click on the Finish button. Now you have Windows 7 Games installed in Windows 11!

That's very easy.

Tip: You can verify the downloaded file. The exe installer has the following checksums:

9b0166d0569f6f5371b10521e105e957 *Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe


80b9ed664e92c955f8a6944075a33d96666d6400d6a6ea10977f68e64e152989 *Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe

To check it, open Windows Terminal by pressing Win + X on the keyboard and selecting Windows Terminal. If needed, switch to the PowerShell profile. Then type the following command.

Get-FileHash path\to\Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe

The default run will calculate the SHA256 sum. To verify the MD5 checksum, execute the command:

Get-FileHash path\to\Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe -Algorithm MD5

You can save your time by adding the file hash context menu to File Explorer.

Now, let's see how to launch the games after you have installed them.

Launch the installed games

1. Click the Start button and then click on All apps.
2. Go down to the "G" letter to find the Games folder. You can use alphabet navigation to save your time.
3. Under the Games folder, you will find the whole set of classic Windows games.

You are done! Play your favorite games now.

The Windows 7 Games package is compatible with all builds of Windows Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8. The list of available games includes.

• Solitaire
• Spider Solitaire
• Minesweeper
• FreeCell
• Hearts
• Chess Titans
• Mahjong Titans
• Purble Place

There are also Internet Games, Internet Spades, Internet Checkers and Internet Backgammon. Unfortunately, Microsoft has turned off the game servers for them, so they no longer connect to them out of the box. That's why they are unchecked by default in the installer.

Supported languages and locales

The games included in this package come with a full set of language resources. The installer is able to determine which languages you have installed in your OS, and extract only the required resources to save your disk spaces and don't fill it with redundant files.

So, thanks to the above optimization, the games will always run in your native language, matching the current locale of your Windows version. The following languages are supported.

Arabic (Saudi Arabia), ar-SA
Bulgarian (Bulgaria), bg-BG
Czech (Czech Republic), cs-CZ
Danish (Denmark), da-DK
German (Germany), de-DE
Greek (Greece), el-GR
English (United States), en-US
Spanish (Spain, International Sort), es-ES
Estonian (Estonia), et-EE
Finnish (Finland), fi-FI
French (France), fr-FR
Hebrew (Israel), he-IL
Croatian (Croatia), hr-HR
Hungarian (Hungary), hu-HU
Italian (Italy), it-IT
Japanese (Japan), ja-JP
Korean (Korea), ko-KR
Lithuanian (Lithuania), lt-LT
Latvian (Latvia), lv-LV
Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway), nb-NO
Dutch (Netherlands), nl-NL
Polish (Poland), pl-PL
Portuguese (Brazil), pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal), pt-PT
Romanian (Romania), ro-RO
Russian (Russia), ru-RU
Slovak (Slovakia), sk-SK
Slovenian (Slovenia), sl-SI
Serbian (Latin, Serbia and Montenegro (Former)), sr-Latn-CS
Swedish (Sweden), sv-SE
Thai (Thailand), th-TH
Turkish (Turkey), tr-TR
Ukrainian (Ukraine), uk-UA
Chinese (Simplified, China), zh-CN
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), zh-TW

Silent installation (deployment)

The installer supports the /S switch, so it will install the games automatically without user interaction. The S letter must be capitalized, it is a mandatory requirement.

Run it as follows from a batch file or from any console.

Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe /S

If you are using PowerShell, you may need to enter the full path to the binary or prepend it with the ./ path portion, like this:

./Windows7Games_for_Windows_11_10_8.exe /S

After that, the games will be silently installed and registered in Windows 11.

If Windows 7 games don't work after upgrading Windows 11

If you have upgraded from a previous Windows version, or you have installed a newer build of Windows 11 over the older one, the games will stop working. You'll have to reinstall them. Simply reinstall the package. Do it as follows.

1. Open the Settings app with the Win + I shortcut.
2. Click on Apps > Apps and features.
3. In the list of installed apps on the right, find the Windows 7 Games for Windows 11, 10 and 8 entry.
4. Click the three dot button next to the app name and select Uninstall from the menu. So, you can uninstall it like any other Windows 11 app. Check out the Uninstall Apps in Windows 11 guide.
5. Click on Uninstall and wait till the uninstaller app removes the games.
6. Now, run the game installer once again. They will start working again.

I recommend you to remove the Windows 7 games before you installing a new build of Windows 11. Once you upgrade the OS, install them again and continue to play. They will preserve your stats and scores.