You can now play three of the most beloved PlayStation 2 games of all time in a new PC port, thanks to a dedicated modding team bringing Jak and Daxter to modern platforms. Naughty Dog's iconic PS2 platformer series, which put out its first three games in 2001, 2003, and 2004, is now available in an all-new form.
Per Steam Deck HQ, modding project OpenGOAL has finally released native Windows, Mac, and Linux ports of Jak and Daxter 1, 2, and 3 for PC. Although Jak and Daxter 2 and 3 are still in beta, all three games are fully playable and publicly downloadable as of March 31, 2026, and have a handful of new features to check out.
OpenGOAL is a project by a group of devs and fans to, in their own words, "[revive] the language that brought us the Jak and Daxter series." Jak and Daxter was written in its own proprietary programming language, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp, or GOAL, a dialect of the more widely used Lisp. Naughty Dog would later go on to use GOAL in developing later games, including The Last of Us.
OpenGOAL began in 2020 with the... goal of bringing...
