# Surreal Engine: reimplementing Unreal Engine 1

> Surreal Engine reimplements Unreal Engine 1, currently for Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament. The SurrealEngine executable adds game folders and launches a selected game. It runs on Windows 10 or newer, macOS 15 or newer, and a current Linux distribution, using Direct3D 11, OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan, or Metal 2. Build steps are in Docs/Building.md. SurrealEngine [--url=<mapname>] [--engineversion=X] takes a game-folder path.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine/blob/b8a30e3072cb2b39a20bed3fe102dfbd6726afd2/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/surrealengine/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/surrealengine/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/surrealengine/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- An original copy of the Unreal Engine 1 game to run. Follow Docs/Building.md.
- The README does not name a license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine/blob/b8a30e3072cb2b39a20bed3fe102dfbd6726afd2/README.md>

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