Obviously it is pretty sketchy to download games from the internet to play on your computer. Here is one way to play 'some' of the games out there fairly safely:
1.) Use windows sandbox. You enable this as a windows feature. Search windows feature in taskbar search, open up "Turn Windows features on or off" and enable Windows Sandbox
2.) Put the following text inside a file called sandbox.wsb on your desktop (it can be named something else and be placed somewhere else if you like)
<Configuration>
<VGpu>Default</VGpu>
<Networking>Disable</Networking>
<MappedFolders>
<MappedFolder>
<HostFolder>D:\Sandbox</HostFolder>
<ReadOnly>false</ReadOnly>
</MappedFolder>
</MappedFolders>
</Configuration>
This configuration disables internet (so games can not 'phone home' and expose your IP). This configuration also exposes the folder D:\Sandbox from which it can read and write files.
3.) Put the games you want to play in D:\Sandbox
4.) Double click sandbox.wsb and you should see your games inside of a folder in the desktop called Sandbox
Some games will not work this way, but this will work for quite a few of the interactive fiction type games out there and will even remember your saves and such between sandbox restarts. This is best suited for games where 'install' is just unzip and run and there is no install process. Some games that have an install process won't work and if they do, you will have to reinstall every time you restart the sandbox.
While this is a pretty safe way to play games, it is still possible (but difficult and unlikely) that a game could break out of a sandbox environment. Caveat emptor and all that.
Games played this way will also be slower, especially if they are graphics heavy.
1.) Use windows sandbox. You enable this as a windows feature. Search windows feature in taskbar search, open up "Turn Windows features on or off" and enable Windows Sandbox
2.) Put the following text inside a file called sandbox.wsb on your desktop (it can be named something else and be placed somewhere else if you like)
<Configuration>
<VGpu>Default</VGpu>
<Networking>Disable</Networking>
<MappedFolders>
<MappedFolder>
<HostFolder>D:\Sandbox</HostFolder>
<ReadOnly>false</ReadOnly>
</MappedFolder>
</MappedFolders>
</Configuration>
This configuration disables internet (so games can not 'phone home' and expose your IP). This configuration also exposes the folder D:\Sandbox from which it can read and write files.
3.) Put the games you want to play in D:\Sandbox
4.) Double click sandbox.wsb and you should see your games inside of a folder in the desktop called Sandbox
Some games will not work this way, but this will work for quite a few of the interactive fiction type games out there and will even remember your saves and such between sandbox restarts. This is best suited for games where 'install' is just unzip and run and there is no install process. Some games that have an install process won't work and if they do, you will have to reinstall every time you restart the sandbox.
While this is a pretty safe way to play games, it is still possible (but difficult and unlikely) that a game could break out of a sandbox environment. Caveat emptor and all that.
Games played this way will also be slower, especially if they are graphics heavy.
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