The X-Files Game (Shiloh)
Game: The X-Files Game (Windows, 1998)
An open-source engine written in Rust that runs The X-Files Game on current systems from your own copy. It has a native window (SDL2) and a browser version (WebAssembly, served from your own machine). It is written independently, rebuilding what the original does after running and tracing it scene by scene: it contains none of the original program’s code, and the few tables it needs from the executable are read from your copy at run time. According to the README the game can be played from start to finish: there are complete playthroughs in the browser version on the English DVD Edition and the Russian 1.00 release, and on the German 7-CD release; the French edition on the DVD has also been played through. It was developed against an installed Russian 1.00 copy; the English retail CDs are lightly tested. It reads disc images directly, including the Russian installer’s. It is tested on macOS (Apple Silicon) and has been run on a Windows PC; Linux is untested. Version 0.3.4 (October 24) is the latest of eight releases and publishes Windows, Linux, macOS, and browser builds of 1 to 7 MB.
You needYour own copy of The X-Files Game (1998): the original discs, a disc image (.iso, or Alcohol’s .mdf and .mds pair), or the installed game. It supports the English DVD Edition (which includes the French), the Russian 1.00, and the German 7-CD release; other CD releases are untested. Plus 64-bit Windows, macOS, or Linux, or a current browser with WebAssembly.
- How it gets to PC
- Game-specific engine
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- HyperBole Studios
- Year
- 1998
- Author
- Asterber
- Stars
- 31
- Last activity
- 2026-10-24 · 18 days ago
- Latest version
- v0.3.4 · 2026-10-24
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Language
- Rust
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