Game resource package
File type: Archive and compressed file, Game file
Files with pak extension are traditionally used for package files. These files are used in many programs and especially in computer games. A typical .pak file can contain various resources used in the game, such as graphics or sounds. Can be extracted with specialized tools and sometimes with common archivers.
Found 5 different file type records with the same pak filename suffix.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Game file
Date updated: December 24, 2024
File extension pak is used by computer games for their resource archives.
The .pak files are archives or compressed files, which contains various game files such as graphic files, sprites, game sounds, music, objects and another data, that are required in order to play the game.
Some utilities, often developed by fans, are able to extract the contents of such files. Probably the most used tool is Dragon UnPACker that is able to access the contents of game files from plethora of games.
Some pak files can also be simply be in common archive formats, such as rar, or zip, with their extension renamed to PAK.
Games reported to be using PAK format for some of their resource files:
Most *.pak files can be opened and extracted with Dragon UnPACker.
Generally speaking, it is unlikely any of the PAK game archives could be converted to something else. However you may find tools that can extract the contents of these files.
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
QuArK (Microsoft Windows)
ALZip (Microsoft Windows)
ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
3D Object Converter (Microsoft Windows)
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
IZArc (Microsoft Windows)
WinRAR (Microsoft Windows)
PeaZip (Microsoft Windows)
QuArK (Microsoft Windows)
Leinen PAK Explorer (Microsoft Windows)
PakExplorer (Microsoft Windows)
Sprite Explorer (Microsoft Windows)
DePacker (Microsoft Windows)
ALZip (Microsoft Windows)
ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Dragon UnPACKer (Microsoft Windows)
Kingpin: Life of Crime (Microsoft Windows)
Blitzkrieg (Microsoft Windows)
Blitzkrieg Rolling Thunder (Microsoft Windows)
Quake 2 (Microsoft Windows)
Heretic 2 (Microsoft Windows)
Daikatana (Microsoft Windows)
Half-Life (Microsoft Windows)
HeXen 2 (Microsoft Windows)
Call of Juarez (Microsoft Windows)
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (Microsoft Windows)
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Microsoft Windows)
Final Fantasy VIII (Microsoft Windows)
Far Cry (Microsoft Windows)
ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal (Microsoft Windows)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (Microsoft Windows)
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Microsoft Windows)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Microsoft Windows)
The Settlers - Kingdoms of Anteria (Champions of Anteria) (Microsoft Windows)
TrickStyle (Microsoft Windows)
Maximus XV Abraham Strong - Space Mercenary (Space Hack) (Microsoft Windows)
Crysis (Microsoft Windows)
Simutrans (Microsoft Windows)
Divinity: Original Sin (Microsoft Windows)
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 (Microsoft Windows)
Unreal Tournament (Microsoft Windows)
Homefront: The Revolution (Microsoft Windows)
Tekken 7 (Microsoft Windows)
Quake (Microsoft MS-DOS)
Heretic (Microsoft MS-DOS)
Lands of Lore (Microsoft MS-DOS)
Dune 2 (Microsoft MS-DOS)
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate (Microsoft MS-DOS)
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: August 13, 2019
The pak file extension seems to once also have been used for some kind of package in CrazyTalk facial animation software. Perhaps originally meant as some kind of export format, however latest version does not seem to use this.
As far as we know, these packages can only be accessed using CrazyTalk and from what we could gather, only in some older version.
We do not know about any possible conversion for this particular *.pak file type, but perhaps it is just RAR/ZIP renamed to PAK.
CrazyTalk (Microsoft Windows)
CrazyTalk (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: May 11, 2017
The pak file extension is associated with the LogiKal, a German software aimed for architecture and metal-working, available for various platforms, developed and sold by Orgdata.
The pak file contains some kind of data used by Orgadata LogiKal.
LogiKal (Microsoft Windows)
LogiKal (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: November 29, 2016
The pak file extension is associated with the Simutrans, a transportation simulator for Microsoft Windows, macOS (OS X) and Linux operating systems.
The pak file stores some kind of data used by Simutrans.
Simutrans (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: November 29, 2016
The pak file extension is associated with the PAK compressed files used by some data compression programs for MS-DOS operating system.
The pak files use Zlib compression format and they can be uncompressed compatible archive tools, like AlZip and Stuffit.
Use AlZip, or Stuffit to extract data from *.pak files.
The easiest way how to convert PAK archive is to decompress the PAK archive with the use of Zlib and repack the content with another compression utility of your choice.
Zlib (Linux/Unix)
Zlib (Linux/Unix)
ALZip (Microsoft Windows)
StuffIt Deluxe (Microsoft Windows)
Stuffit (Microsoft Windows)
WinZip (Microsoft Windows)
ALZip for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
StuffIt Deluxe for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
StuffIt for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
WinZip Mac Edition (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Zlib (Linux/Unix)
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