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ScummVM for Mac

Play some of the original LucasArts adventure games.

Free
In English
4.9
Based on 7 user rates

ScummVM overview

ScummVM is a classic gaming interpreter and emulator that includes several interpreters for 2D adventures. There is currently support for several interpreters: AdventureSoft (Simon the Sorcerer 1/2), Revolution Software's Beneath a Steel Sky (not yet playable), and a SCUMM interpreter capable of running classic LucasArts and Humongous adventure games using the SCUMM/SPU engine. This includes titles such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, The Dig, and more.

Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.

What's new in version 2026.3.0

New games:
  • Added support for Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel.
  • Added support for Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island.
  • Added support for Noctropolis.
  • Added support for Cartoon Carnival.
  • Added support for Alfred Pelrock: En Busca de un Sueño.
  • Added support for Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant, Pilot Brothers: The Case of Serial Maniac, and five minor games built on the Gamos engine.
General:
  • Highlight clickable links in the GUI with a cursor change.
  • Fixed window size when switching out of fullscreen mode on 3D engines.
  • Implemented NULL OPL driver for lower-base systems.
  • Implemented kinetic scolling in GUI lists.
ACCESS:
  • Fixed various script issues in Martian Memorandum.
AGOS:
  • Added support for language files used by Amiga and Macintosh versions of Simon2.
GLK:
  • Exposed text and engine settings in the GUI.
LastExpress:
  • The game has been supported for a while now (2026.1.0), we just forgot to add a news entry here. Whoops!
  • Several inaccuracies from the character logic have been fixed, which means that some rare issues concerning characters behavior should now be gone.
MADS:
  • In Rex Nebular fix game being semi-stuck while using binoculars.
MM:
  • Reworked keymapper for MM1.
  • Fixed MM1 Enhanced allowing trading more than the character owned.
  • Fixed MM1 Enhanced allowing free temple healing where it shouldn't.
  • MM1 Enhanced most recently played music was restarting after opening and closing the GMM.
MYST3:
  • Fixed a regression for the animation of the control wheel at J'nanin's shore.
  • Camera movement is now free after placing a symbol on the pedestal at the watch tower in J'nanin.
NANCY:
  • Fixed a regression in ripped letter types of puzzles, affecting all the Nancy games that feature such puzzles.
  • Fixed potential crashes in ripped letter types of puzzles, after loading a saved game.
  • Show the correct mouse cursor in rotating lock types of puzzles.
  • Enter the game scene directly when loading a saved game from the launcher or the GMM, instead of starting in the main game menu.
  • Properly handle the "Continue Game" button after clicking on the "More Nancy" button.
  • Fixed an edge case in piano types of puzzles, where clicking on a key while another was still down produced a graphical glitch.
  • Fixed some sounds stopping prematurely in Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand and newer games.
  • Fixed animation speed and timing in turning types of puzzles.
SLUDGE:
  • Added two more games to detection, "Sam and Max Flintlocked" and "Full Moon".
TwinE:
  • Fixed soft lock collision bug with bulldozer.
  • Fixed wrong scaling for plasma menu effect.
  • Fixed holomap model rendering.
  • Disable autosaves while driving a vehicle.
Atari port:
  • Added native CDDA support.
  • Added plugin support (now ScummVM can run with as little as a few megs of RAM).
  • Added native YM2149 support (currently usable for Elvira 1 and 2).
  • Reworked audio mixer (this fixes the barking poodles in SOMI).
  • Autosave is disabled by default as it leads to audible artefacts during gameplay.
PS3 port:
  • Added support for running ScummVM engines as separate modules/executables. This saves about 90 MB of RAM. It is enabled only for release packages.
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ScummVM for Mac

Free
In English
Version 2026.3.0
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4.9

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Septic Monkey
Septic Monkey
Jan 8, 2022
2.5.1
0.0
Jan 8, 2022
0.0
Version: 2.5.1
I've never used emulators before, so I have a quick question. Does this app allow me to play classic MacOS games --- the type of games you can download from abandonware sites?
umaromc
umaromc
Nov 7, 2011
1.1.1
0.0
Nov 7, 2011
0.0
Version: 1.1.1
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/scummvm-1.3.1-macosx.dmg?download This has been at version 1.3.1 for awhile now.
Derision
Derision
May 7, 2010
1.1.1
5.0
May 7, 2010
5.0
Version: 1.1.1
Absolutely amazing. My girlfriend and I were huge LucasArts fans and we kept an older Mac running that'd play them. When that machine died and I upgraded to an Intel OSX machine that was incapable of handling the Classic environment, I thought that I'd never be able to play these games again. This not only lets me play all the old games I played in the past, it let me play the games that had been released for PC only that I'd never gotten a chance to check out, like Money Island III.
Yoshinatsu
Yoshinatsu
May 3, 2010
1.1.1
5.0
May 3, 2010
5.0
Version: 1.1.1
ScummVM has brought back SO many memories from the point n' click adventure era. Broken Sword, Discworld, I can now play all of my favorites on my Mac... Frequently updated, you can play more and more games with each release.
Foofoorabbit
Foofoorabbit
Mar 1, 2009
0.13
5.0
Mar 1, 2009
5.0
Version: 0.13
ScummVM is the most amazing open source project out there. While I don't agree with the ScummVM team's GUI design decisions (they refuse to make the app more Mac-like to keep it fully portable and consistant across all platforms), I'm amazed at hard work they've put into making all the LucasArts, HE, and many other adventure games from the late 80s and early 90s work on any platform. Sarien was merged a while ago to add all the Sierra AGI games...and recently (in 0.14 subversion builds), FreeSCI's SCI engine was merged to add many of the Sierra SCI games. Booya!
Dykstran
Dykstran
Apr 5, 2011
5.0
Apr 5, 2011
5.0
Version: null
Derision
Derision
May 7, 2010
5.0
May 7, 2010
5.0
Version: null
Yoshinatsu
Yoshinatsu
May 3, 2010
5.0
May 3, 2010
5.0
Version: null
Foofoorabbit
Foofoorabbit
Mar 1, 2009
5.0
Mar 1, 2009
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Mar 29, 2005
5.0
Mar 29, 2005
5.0
Version: null
Joephish
Joephish
Aug 25, 2003
5.0
Aug 25, 2003
5.0
Version: null
Gufus
Gufus
May 26, 2003
4.5
May 26, 2003
4.5
Version: null