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.
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.PAK file extension - Game resource package
What is pak file? How to open pak files?
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:
- Blitzkrieg
- Blitzkrieg Rolling Thunder
- Quake 2
- Heretic 2
- Daikatana
- Half-Life
- Hexen 2
- Call of Juarez
- Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Far Cry
- Zanzarah
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
- Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate
- TrickStyle
- Maximus XV Abraham Strong - Space Mercenary
- Crysis
- Quake 1
- Heretic
- Lands of Lore
- Dune 2
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Simutrans
- and many many other games...
Updated: September 3, 2023
The default software associated to open pak file:
Company or developer:
Alexandre Devilliers
Dragon Unpacker is unpacking tool for resource files from computer games, which is very popular in moding community. It supports plethora of file formats and also is able to search for known patterns in unknown file formats.
List of software applications associated to the .pak file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open pak file, edit pak file, convert pak file, view pak file, play pak file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting pak files.
Software that open pak file - Game resource package
Programs supporting the exension pak on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about Dragon UnPACKer for open pak file action.
