Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time joins GOG Game Preservation Program

After years of excitement, anticipation – and some skepticism – the long awaited Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake was unceremoniously cancelled by Ubisoft. Fortunately, the 2003 original is still available and better than ever on PC thanks to its addition to GOG’s game preservation program.

Since its creation in late 2024, GOG’s game preservation program has brought back many classics to life, introducing technical improvements to allow for compatibility long into the future.

Following the announcement back in January that Ubisoft’s long-developed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake was being officially cancelled, GOG informed fans that it would be bringing “the original Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time into the GOG Preservation Program as fast as we can!”

While it took some time, The Sands of Time can now be purchased through GOG. Available on sale for just £2.59 (70% off), some of the improvements made for modern hardware include:

• The addition of native widescreen and ultrawide support for all modern resolutions and aspect ratios
• New camera scaling that automatically adjusts the field of view (FOV) based on monitor aspect ratio
• Added an FPS limiter
• New lightweight, real-time in-game overlay for further adjustments
• Implemented a lightweight wrapper to resolve modern hardware incompatibilities

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time joins a list of more than 300 titles which are now part of the GOG Preservation Program, with some of the other most recent additions including POSTAL; Trials of Mana; Metro 2033 and Thief Gold.

The full list of preserved games and the story behind The Sands of Time in particular can be found HERE.

KitGuru says: What do you think of GOG’s Game Preservation Program? Has The Sands of Time aged well? Let us know down below.

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