The LAN party is back. Without the headache.

Many of the best multiplayer games of the late nineties and two-thousands can no longer be played online: the official servers were switched off years ago. The games still work, and people still own them, but the place to meet other players is gone.

NOSTALGG brings that place back. It is an online service in the tradition of the LAN parties of that era: one lobby where you see who is online, chat, host a game or join one, and play the original game against real people. Every match runs on the same build for everyone, so version problems and broken patches are a thing of the past.

You get a player profile, a public lobby and private rooms with invite links, competitive rankings and ratings, and automatic replays of your matches. More community features are on the way as the service grows.

And it is always legal: you need your own official copy of each game. NOSTALGG never distributes game content. We only provide a tool for playing together again.

1. Create an account. That is your name in the lobby. Free during the beta.
2. Pick a game you own. After signing in you see what is available and what you need for it, with a link to where it is sold.
3. Press Play. The first time you point the browser at the game's folder on your computer. The browser keeps its own copy, so the next start takes a few seconds.
4. Join the lobby. Everyone who is online is listed, like on a LAN. Chat, host a game or join one. There are private rooms with invite links for your own group.

You need your own official copy of every game you play here, exactly as you would at a LAN party. NOSTALGG does not sell, copy or hand out game content.

We only run games whose engine (the program itself) was released as open source by the publisher, and our own changes to those engines are published under the same license. The art, music and maps are not open source and we do not touch them: they come from the copy you bought and stay on your computer.

We are not affiliated with any publisher, and we do not sell game content. If you do not own a game yet, you can buy it from Steam or any other legit store.