Updated: 24.03.08
A collection of games for the QL. Some of these are quite old, so may not work too well on modern hardware or emulators, but give them a try nonetheless! Hint: if a game does not work on an emulator or modern QL compatible, try restarting in a QL compatibility mode such as 512x256 4 or 8 colour screen with the screen at the original QL address of decimal 131072 (hex 20000) and system variables at decimal 163840 (hex 28000), this ought to give the best possible chance of success.
23 Bullets - Take turns to remove 23 bullets, loser takes the last one! (20K) [12/12/02]
3D Board 4x4 - try to get 4 counters in a row, 1 or 2 players (PE) (14K) [12/12/02]
3D maze game - guide yourself out of the maze (Edward Leigh) (5K) [12/12/02]
3D maze game - good graphics, random "jump" facility (4K) [12/12/02]
3D maze game - by Ralf Biederman (11K) [12/12/02]
3D Oxo - 3D noughts and crosses (32K) [12/12/02]
3D Tic Tac - 3D Noughts And Crosses type game on a 4x4x4 grid (T.J.Arnfield) (5K) [12/12/02]
4-Game Pack - Four simple games (Musical Interlude, Wild West, Pairs and Puzzler) from Fraser Harkins (26K) [12/12/02]
A collection of adventure games - Starburst, Fantasia, Ye Classical Adventure, Adventure Playtime, Lost Tombs Of Ornac, Starplod, Underground Adventure and Farce (241K) [12/12/02]
Adventure Utilities - for use with Gilsoft's Quill and DP's ACT (78K) [12/12/02]
Anagrams game in SuperBASIC (4K) [12/12/02]
Analizador Aritmetico v2.1 - Solves the figures problem in Spanish TV's "Cifras y Letras" program (Pedro Reina) (36K) [12/12/02]
Aries - a lunar lander game in SuperBASIC (3K) [12/12/02]
Attack - Shoot down the Things as they attack (3K) [12/12/02]
Battle game (35K) [12/12/02]
Battleships - blast away at the computer as it tries to destroy your ships (5K) [12/12/02]
Blackjack - QL version of a well known casino card game from Oliver Neef (29K) [12/12/02]
Breakout - a version of Breakout for the QL (8K) [12/12/02]
Breakout - The classic game of Breakout - demolish a wall! (4K) [12/12/02]
Breakout - Another version of breakout for the QL. (5K) [12/12/02]
Breakout - Another version of breakout for the QL, from Jean-Yves Rouffiac (8K) [12/12/02]
Bridge - A program to help you play Bridge (20K) [12/12/02]
BuscaPalabras v1.2. - Solves the letters problem in Spanish TV's "Cifras y Letras", finds any word within the DRAE.(Pedro Reina) (375K) [12/12/02]
Camel - Cross the desert on a camel in this game (4K) [12/12/02]
Cavern - QL-cavern game (22K) [12/12/02]
Cavern Frenzy - help the miner collect crystals in the 15 levels of caverns in this shareware game by Fraser Harkins (32K) [12/12/02]
Cazaletras v3 - A game of skill with words (Pedro Reina) (17K) [12/12/02]
CBZone - A Battlezone type tank game (322K) [12/12/02]
Cluedo - who committed the murder? Find out with this SuperBASIC version of the famous board game (4K) [12/12/02]
Crazy Cards game (PE) (17K) [12/12/02]
Cross & Diagonal - game by Frank Dibowski (PE) (22K) [12/12/02]
Crossword Utilities - Crossword solving aid, from Tim & Catherine Swenson (171K) [12/12/02]
Cube - A game where you have to manipulate a cube (3K) [12/12/02]
Cyborg - Dominate the continent. Choose a country and aim to rule sensibly and in peace for 25 years and become elected as Ruler Of All Nations. (9K) [12/12/02]
Cyclops - A SuperBASIC game where you have to find the Cyclops eye (4K) [12/12/02]
D-Day Mk II - Demo version of D-Day Mk II, a war game for the QL (142K) [12/12/02]
Damon Chaplin GamesA collection of arcade-style games from Damon Chaplin,including Assault And Battery, Pudge, Speedfreaks, and Spook (91K) [12/12/02]
Darts - A graphical game of darts (29K) [12/12/02]
Decimal Invaders - fire matching characters at the invaders to eliminate them in this pointer driven game from the Launchpad suite. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
Decipher - A pointer driven Decipher game (Frank Dibowski) (22K) [12/12/02]
Diamonds - Boulderdash game clone in SuperBASIC (Thomas Much) (8K) [12/12/02]
Digitaya - Text adventure game where you must find the mysterious Digitaya (7K) [12/12/02]
DIY Adventure - construct your own text adventures with this package (11K) [12/12/02]
Domino - two versions of dominoes (18K) [12/12/02]
Dominoes - The game of Dominoes (21K) [12/12/02]
Draughts published in QL Today (5K) [12/12/02]
Dreamlands - A traditional fantasy text adventure from Jean-Yves Rouffiac (67K) [12/12/02]
Einstein - Change colours to target colours-not as easy as it looks! (PE) (16K) [12/12/02]
Exploding Atoms - Explode Atoms game (20K) [12/12/02]
Farce - A classical comical text adventure game (12K) [12/12/02]
Film Fun - Control your budgets carefully to make profitable movies! (4K) [12/12/02]
Financial Climes - a stock market management game (shareware) (70K) [12/12/02]
Flightdeck - Demo version (time limited) of Flightdeck flight simulator (49K) [12/12/02]
Football Manager v1.3 - football management strategy game by M V Mitchell (49K) [12/12/02]
Fruit machine v1.2 - a colourful fruit machine game by K. Millington. Gamble without losing too much money! (5K) [12/12/02]
GeeGees - Bet on the horses without losing all your money! (D.Jones) (23K) [12/12/02]
Ghost - Pacman derivative - eat pill, kill ghost, go home (T.Jorasson) (3K) [12/12/02]
GNU Chess - GNU chess game (274K) [12/12/02]
Go - "Go" from Jerome Grimbert (38K) [12/12/02]
Golf - A graphical Golf game (32K) [12/12/02]
Golf 2 - another golf game, with 100 courses. [12/12/02]
Golfer - Another graphical golf game (6K) [12/12/02]
Gunner - arcade-style shoot-em-up game, fast and furious action (8K) [12/12/02]
Haunted House - A classical text adventure game. (19K) [12/12/02]
Heads And Tails - gamble your money on the toss of a coin with this short and simple SuperBASIC game. Needs the CURSEN and CURDIS extensions from Toolkit 2. (2K) [12/12/02]
Hexpawn - a simple pointer driven game based on chess pawns. This is one of the accessory programs from the Launchpad suite. Follow this link to the Launchpad Download Page to download this program. (D. Jones)
Infernal - "Infernal" game from Jerome Grimbert (30K) [12/12/02]
Infocom Routines For Qdos - To play(and cheat!) with Infocom v1-v5 games (Luke Roberts) (346K) [12/12/02]
Inform Compiler - Lets you create Infocom-style text adventure games(Luke Roberts) (331K) [12/12/02]
International Cricket by Nigel Holder (31K) [12/12/02]
Invaders - shoot down the invading Greek letters in this shoot-em-up game from Jean-Yves Rouffiac (6K) [12/12/02]
Limited Over Cricket - play cricket on your QL, you can even define your own team, or enter details of your favourite team! (24K) [12/12/02]
Lucas - A pointer driven tiles game from Wolfgang Lenerz (4K) [12/12/02]
Lunar - A lunar lander game-guide your craft gently down to the moon (David Nowotnik) (4K) [12/12/02]
Match v1.01 - take turns to remove matches from a pile, the one who is forced to take the last one loses. Per Witte version of Nim. [12/12/02]
Mazes - Maze generation routines plus 3D maze game (17K) [12/12/02]
Memo - A memory game where you must match pairs of cards(PE, W.Lenerz) (12K) [12/12/02]
Minefield - A challenging game (needs PE) (24K) [12/12/02]
Mine Sweeper- Mine Sweeper game under PE (35K) [12/12/02]
Mine Sweeper - Mine Sweeper game (22K) [12/12/02]
Mission X - Defuse bombs with a robot (Thomas Much) (12K) [12/12/02]
Monopoly - property trading board game (95K) [12/12/02]
Monopoly - property trading board game, this version written in SuperBASIC (5K) [12/12/02]
Othello - a strategy board
game. Plays quite a strong game. Does not work on Minerva 1.97 at the
moment unfortunately. (Kenneth A. Tait) (22K) [30/01/05]
Kenneth has written a couple of pages of instructions which can be
printed from here:
Instructions for QL Othello
| How to play the game of Othello
Pacman - An implementation of the Pacman game for the QL (S. Deary) (4K) [12/12/02]
Pacman - QL Pacman (J. Mrsic-Flogele) (9K) [12/12/02]
Paladin - a Space Invaders-type game for the QL, written in assembler. [12/12/02]
Parallax - Space trading game (Thomas Much) (12K) [12/12/02]
PC vs QL - QL's chance to get revenge on PCs in this game (5K) [12/12/02]
Pente - "Pente" game from Jerome Grimbert (28K) [12/12/02]
Pontoon game in SuperBASIC (5K) [12/12/02]
Puzzel - Reassemble the triangles, matching colours and patterns (PE) (26K) [12/12/02]
Puzzle - Unscramble the 15 numbers. A game from W. Lenerz (PE) (9K) [12/12/02]
Q-Games - a pack of 6 games, Starport2001, Britain, Bomber, Multimaze, Darts and Skyburst [12/12/02]
QBall - Game of skill requiring precise cursor control (11K) [12/12/02]
QBert - QBert game for the QL, BASIC and compiled versions. (15K) [12/12/02]
"QLbert" game from Jerome Grimbert (24K) [12/12/02]
QL Games Cartridge - The original QL games cartridge supplied with the QL! (31K) [12/12/02]
QLingo - An addictive game of skill and luck with words and logic (35K) [12/12/02]
QLTris - A pointer driven Tetris game from Wolfgang Lenerz (6K) [12/12/02]
QL War - QL War game (95K) [12/12/02]
QOpoly - A Beta-shareware Monopoly/Spin-The-Bottle game (from Europro) (61K) [12/12/02]
QPuzzle v1.0 A very difficult squares game (E. Verbeek) (8K) [12/12/02]
QL Othello (Reversi) board game, by Richard Green (24K) [12/12/02]
Quzzle - Two versions of a sliding block puzzle from R.J.Weekes (PE) (22K) [12/12/02]
Radar - Air Traffic Control of unknown aircraft in a war zone (7K) [12/12/02]
Reversi - The game of Reversi (Othello) by Frank Dibowski (PE) (23K) [12/12/02]
Rogue - Jerome Grimbert port of Unix 'Dungeon of Doom' type game (75K) [12/12/02]
Rubik's Area - align the colours. Frank Dibowski (PE) (20K) [12/12/02]
Runway - clear an area for the aircraft to land before it's too late! (5K) [12/12/02]
Same - Ksame-like game under PE (16K) [12/12/02]
Segundero v2.1 - A game that promotes the numeric memory (P.Reina) (31K) [12/12/02]
Shire - manage the estate's finances. Try to become king or queen in this Kingdom-style game. (8K) [12/12/02]
Skat is a card game of German origin (14K) [12/12/02]
Small Square Game from Jerome Grimbert (PE) 0-2 players (32K) [12/12/02]
Snake - Snake game, eat the numbers but avoid the snake's own tail (16K) [12/12/02]
Snake - Another snake game, by Christian Gavin. This one is set in a pacman-style maze (7K) [12/12/02]
Snake - Another snake game, by I. Jordan (4K) [12/12/02]
Snakes - Classic Snake And Ladders game (up the ladders, down snakes) (4K) [12/12/02]
Sokoban - Block pushing game, by Per-Erik Forssen (7K) [12/12/02]
Solitaire - the classic peg game, try to remove all pieces from the cross shaped board by capturing pieces in turn (Pedro Reina) (52K) [12/12/02]
Solvit Plus - Freeware version of Solvit Plus (word games aid from Geoff Wicks) (344K) [12/12/02]
Space Invaders - a machine coded version of space invaders by P. Mackinnon (8K) [12/12/02]
Space Raid game, a version of Scramble (Martin Mamo) (17K) [12/12/02]
Squadies V1.63 - Military text adventure (N.B.strong language, adults only) (28K) [12/12/02]
Squidgy Squidgy around the world is a colourful little arcade game, a former commercial program from DJC now kindly made freeware by the author. Note that it only works in QL mode 8 and that the PLACExx files should be on a disk in FLP2_. The manual is a file called INTRO_TXT. (Michael A. Crowe) (141K) [24/07/07]
Starburst - a shoot them up type of Space Caverns game (20K) [12/12/02]
Star Cruiser - The once proud Xuthilian Empire fleet lies in ruins, devastated by an alien force of immense power. You join as a Space Cadet and gain promotion through the ranks by successfully landing your star cruiser. An arcade game by Fraser Harkins. (11K) [12/12/02]
Star Trek - a Star Trek game (158K) [12/12/02]
Sudoku program - Program to help solve 3x3 and 4x4 Sudoku puzzles (74K) (George Gwilt) [17/06/06]
Sudoku sources- Sources to the Sudoku program above. (38K) (George Gwilt) [17/06/06]
Supremacy - Tactical game based on the popular game of Risk (24K) [12/12/02]
Surround - Avoid getting trapped by the computer while moving around (5K) [12/12/02]
Tetris - the game of Tetris for the QL, from P. Delmas (25K) [12/12/02]
Threes - A game where you have to match the pairs of icons (29K) [12/12/02]
Towers Of Hanoi - The classic game of Towers Of Hanoi (16K) [12/12/02]
Towers Of Hanoi - Another Towers Of Hanoi demonstration, in SuperBASIC (1K) [12/12/02]
Treasure Hunt - a classical text adventure game (25K) [12/12/02]
Treasure - A platform gavewhere you have to find the treasure (17K) [12/12/02]
Trek - A star-trek game for the QL (26K) [12/12/02]
Tunnel - Help Freddy The Frog collect Opales in this pacman style game (21K) [12/12/02]
Two Loc - short, simple and humorous adventure game written by a twelve year old (2K) [12/12/02]
Two Up - Simple heads and tails game - which gets to 20 first? (1K) [12/12/02]
Vicious Viper - a Centipede-style game (I. Humpreys) (6K) [12/12/02]
Voyage Of The Beano - a large graphical adventure (Alan Pemberton) (155K) [12/12/02]
Wedgie - a chess game written in SuperBASIC, including a compiled version (R. D. Lorenz) (25K) [12/12/02]
Wizard - a multi-screen arcade game (30KB) [12/12/02]
Wordwise - Hangman game combined with word meanings game (12K) [12/12/02]
Worm Germ - a shareware centipede clone by Nick Ward (14K) [12/12/02]
X-Words - a handy little program to help with crossword solving and other word games. Search the supplied 21,000 word list (or any plain text word list, tested up to 300,000 words!) using wildcards '?' and '*' to replace unknown letters or parts of words, e.g. M*E lists words starting with M and ending with E, while A???E finds 5 letter words starting with A and ending with E, *ing lists all words ending with "ing". (David Denham) (84K) [24/03/08]
Yahtzee -dice game written in SuperBASIC (3K) [12/12/02]
Zapman - a version of pacman written in machine code for the QL (Lee Miles) (14K) [12/12/02]
Zauberkarten - Magic Cards, a pointer driven card game (22K) [12/12/02]