Unreal

Your prison ship has crash-landed on the fastest, sleekest, most dangerous 3D world ever created. Look around, crystal clear water shimmers, shadows dance and shift, alien architecture fades into the horizon…

22 May 1998 5 cheats

Platform Shooter Action Science fiction

Unreal is a platform developed by Digital Extremes, released 22 May 1998 on 64DD, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 5 cheat codes for it.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Unreal is

Unreal is a platform game developed by Digital Extremes and released in 1998. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on 64DD, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Your prison ship has crash-landed on the fastest, sleekest, most dangerous 3D world ever created. Look around, crystal clear water shimmers, shadows dance and shift, alien architecture fades into the horizon. Discover the secret of this mysterious planet and find out what caused a peaceful race to be enslaved by vicious merciless aggressors.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Unreal series

Unreal is the first of 13 entries we hold in the Unreal series. The next entry was Unreal Tournament in 1999.

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How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 17 hrs.

What it launched against

Unreal launched on 22 May 1998, within three weeks of Radiant Silvergun, Wetrix and Vigilante 8.

Released around the same time: Radiant Silvergun, Wetrix, Vigilante 8.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Unreal — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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