I have over 600 games on this site, and I don't recall seeing one specially for Windows 3.1 or 95. Some of those games, especially 3.1, were exclusive to their operating system. I still have boxes here and I sure would like an easier way to play them. Thank you for your time.

One or two. There's definitely a game on here using Boxedwine.

I think there's a few games that have an optional installer for a windows version (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

Those tend to be a huge pain to get to run properly on modern Windows, so that's one reason for their scarcity.

Space Empires III (part of the Space Empires Complete Pack) was released in the days of Windows 3.1 (and has relatively simple graphics). Space Empires IV was a big leap graphics-wise and still very playable nowadays (particularly when you check out the mods available for it).

Better move fast though, the current 60% discount is due to expire on 28/06/2099...

there are good chances to get these games running with NTVDM or Otvdm/winevdm..

Fallout 1?

Populous the Beginning and Mega Race are here.

Mega Race ran in DOS 6.2 direct from CD-ROM until MSCDEX went missing. Heh.

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If ever emulation isn't frowned upon.

Youtube Video: How to Easily Run 16-bit Apps on 64-bit Modern Windows

Once you have confirmed the program works in WineVDM, create a shortcut to the game's executable by following the instructions as specified below:

https://youtu.be/hEB00rAfLNY?si=H5jPipykMPj2JfRn&t=91

Be aware that if your game installation folder has spaces in its name, you must enclose it with double quotation marks when making the shortcut.

For example:

"C:\Exploring Civilizations\program.exe"

Fallen Haven maybe? or Deathlock?? Gosh, i can't remember for certain anymore... its such a time ago I do know i bought a little game a while back. you pilot a squadron of space craft on several missions. You control only the lead ship, it was turn based... you controlled the ship by means of an attached arrow you could stretch initiate a turn etc... now for a title... what was it again???
oh btw., not on GoG though so prob not worth a mention

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that title be negging mi like mi first wife!!

'ere ya go

Critical Mass

https://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpC0Fsm1vk

TL;DR: I can't think of anything on GOG that was Windows 3.x exclusive. But if you're looking for early Windows 95 games, there's actually a fair number.

Windows 3.x was an "operating environment" that ran on top of MS-DOS and not a full-fledged operating system. While there were some games that were made Win3.x-native, they typically weren't very graphically intensive and many were turn-based rather than real-time. In that period, any game that required maximum hardware performance would almost always be written for native MS-DOS -- where it could directly access CPU, memory, RAM, graphics and audio -- without the overhead of the Windows environment and its hardware abstraction layer. As a result, very few "good" games of that period only ran on Windows 3.x or were considered "better" on Windows 3.x

SimCity and SimEarth were some notable exceptions in my mind that I actually liked better in their Windows version. Unfortunately, they're not available on GOG. The Microsoft Entertainment Packs (there were 4, plus a sampler pack) were collections of a variety of mini-games (including Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, Tetravex, SkiFree, Chips' Challenge, JezzBall, and many other VERY fun mini-games) that were Win3.x exclusive that many people really enjoyed but also have not been included in GOG. Castle of the Winds was a bit of a niche Win3.x RPG that I remember as well (which, also, isn't on GOG). When you say "Windows 3.x games" those are the ones that immediately jump out in my mind - though there are many others, but very few (if any?) on GOG. I can't say that I've looked through every game in the GOG catalog, but I can't think of anything GOG offers that is a native Win3.x game.

With the advent of Windows 95 and especially DirectX, Windows-native gaming really started to take off since DirectX allowed programs to blow through the abstraction layer and largely access hardware directly with very minimal overhead. Early versions of DirectX provided Windows native performance that was pretty close to running under raw MS-DOS. And, as a result, you'll find a significantly larger number of those games on GOG.

GOG's catalog has a fair number of games that were released between late-1995 and 1998. A good number of those had native Windows 95 executables.

If you pull up the GOG catalog and sort by release date, as you go further into the late 90's you'll find more and more games that were released for Windows 95. Even after Windows 98, many games only required "Win9x" and weren't exclusive to Windows 98.

However... keep in mind that the GOG installers require at least Windows 7 to execute -- and even that is now depreciated. While GOG does offer games that can run under Win9x, the installers themselves need to be executed on a Win7+ system to extract the files, which can then be transferred to an older system.

Oh. my. goodness. I had completely forgotten about that game. You have no idea how many childhood memories you just triggered. I cannot thank you enough for that. Oh man, SkiFree. Those were the days. You, sir, are today's hero.