i download a game for itch.io , and it is .rar file, how can i play it normal as a game?
If it's a .rar file, you need to extract the file contents. You can either right click and choose extract, or manually open the file and drag out the contents. You need a program that can open .rar files, though I think windows automatically comes with one (if you're using windows). If not, download Winrar. It's free.
After extracting the file, there will probably be an exe inside you can run.
Running off the back of this...
I too have noticed an uptick in the number of games packed into .rar
At first I was thinking it might just be trying to cram a large file into an acceptable size.
However, I wonder if there might be something else to it. Such as developers putting passwords onto their .rar or perhaps trying in an attempt to evade the server's automated antivirus scanning?
Well, not sure if you refer to rar specifically or any compressed format but you can also put passwords on zip files.
If people are trying trying to use rar to compress it even more, there are certain zip models that surpass rar, they could also do 7z or KGB in that case, but I guess nobody would know how to open them...
Yeah, in anyway rar seems a quite weird choice nowadays.
Every winrar file is a .rar
heres how to do it.
1. rigt click the .rar file
2. click the extract all files.
3. click the folder after its done.
there you can find it.