Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GAM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GAM to another file type
To convert GAM Saved games to another format, you need Infinity Engine or other Game software.
Convert a file to GAM
To convert other file formats to the "Saved Game Data" file type, you need software like Infinity Engine or a similar tool.
About GAM files
The .GAM file extension is a highly fragmented format primarily used to store proprietary game data, compiled interactive fiction, or saved game states. Because the acronym simply stands for 'Game', dozens of developers adopted it independently throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The most common implementations include compiled interactive fiction for TADS 2 (Text Adventure Development System), saved states for the BioWare Infinity Engine (used in classics like Baldur's Gate), game definition parameters for the Valve GoldSrc Engine (Half-Life), and 3D asset models for the Targem Nebula Engine. Because .GAM files lack structural standardization, they are notoriously difficult to open outside of their native execution environments. They are proprietary, often heavily encoded, and rely on legacy software architectures that fail on modern operating systems. Standard text editors typically render them as unreadable binary garbage, and they cannot be previewed natively in any web browser. Users typically need to convert or extract .GAM files to modify game parameters, recover corrupt save data, or port classic text adventures to modern interpreters. For reverse-engineering and modding, convert .GAM data tables to TXT, JSON, or XML to expose the underlying variable structures. For 3D geometry files, convert to OBJ or FBX for compatibility with modern CAD and rendering tools.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GAM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GAM file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Infinity Engine or similar software from the "Game Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to GAM, try Infinity Engine or another comparable tool in the "Game Data Storage" category.
The GAM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GAM converter.