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ScummVM is a program that allows you to run certain classic graphic adventure and RPG games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM simply replaces the executables that came with the games, so you can play them on systems they were never designed for! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games’ executables and is not an emulator.

ScummVM supports a huge library of adventures with over 250 games in total. It supports many classics released by legendary studios such as LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan, Inc. and Westwood Studios. Alongside groundbreaking titles like the Monkey Island series, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner and countless other games, you’ll find some truly obscure adventures and truly hidden gems to explore.

You can find a full list detailing which games are supported and how well it is on the compatibility page. ScummVM keeps getting better, so check back often. Among the systems you can play these games on are Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, PS Vita, Switch, Dreamcast, AmigaOS, Atari/FreeMiNT, RISC OS, Haiku, PSP, PS3, Maemo, GCW Zero and many more.

What is new

The team was quite busy working on new engines and improving existing ones. The list of supported games grew noticeably and we now support these additions:

• Adibou 1
• Classic cats
• The dark eye
• Dark side
• Escape From Hell
• Gadget: Journeys and Adventures of Invention
• Goblins 5
• The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
• Kingdom: The Far Reaches
• Might and Magic Book One
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Nancy Drew: The Last Scene
• Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion
• Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill
• Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger
• Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
• Primordia
• Reah: Face the unknown
• Schizm: Mysterious Journey
• Shardlight
• Strange country
• Syberia and Syberia II (macOS versions only)
• Technobabylon
• The Vampire Diaries
• Whispers of a Machine
• Wrath of the Gods and four other directorial titles.
• 14 AGS titles by Stranga and Cloak and Dagger

In total, we have introduced 50 new games and five new engines.

New platforms

We are happy to see that the RetroArch port is being properly rewritten and the port is now part of our source code. The Atari port has also been reworked from the ground up and now speaks natively to the hardware, skipping SDL as an intermediate layer. It allowed many more games to be played on the platform. However, the Atari FireBee port still uses the SDL library.

Speed ​​optimized graphics

Thanks to the work of one of the GSoC participants this year, Wyatt Radkiewicz (aka eclipsed), we now use CPU-specific SIMD instructions like SSE, AVX2, and NEON to draw graphics in the AGS engine and in some generic routines. This led to a 4-14x speed increase in drawing in many cases.

Network games

This year we merged with the Backyard Sports Online project, which made it possible to play Backyard Football, Backyard Baseball 2001 and Backyard Football 2002 over the Internet with other people. Moonbase Commander support is also in active playtesting mode, but not yet ready for prime time.

Notable engine improvements

The AGS engine has been brought up to version 3.6.0.53 from upstream.

For many engines, we added support for a number of Chinese and Japanese game variants.

Believe it or not, we implemented many native GUI dialogs for SCUMM games, bringing them closer to the original experience. We also rewrote the audio code for the SCUMM Humongous Entertainment games, making them bug free.

We performed a deep review of the Broken Sword 1 game engine, implementing some small, previously unnoticed things like scene transitions, in-game menu quirks, accurate fonts, idle animations, and more. Now the game is absolutely faithful to the original.

Previous release notes

20 years ago today, Tue Oct 9 16:30:12 2001, Ludvig Strigeus pushed the first revision of the ScummVM code, which was version 0.0.1 of the project. Time flew fast, and fast forward to today, we proudly release ScummVM 2.5.0 “Twenty years ago today…”

The list of changes is huge.

First, this is the first release to support 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release, we’re announcing support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games, and other platforms may be supported later depending on their capabilities.

In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 new engines and sub-engines that add compatibility with the following games:

• Little big adventure
• Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
• Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
• Transylvania
• Crimson Crown
• YES-Topos
• Glulx Interactive Fiction Games
• Private eye
• AGS Games versions 2.5+
• Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
• The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
• Crusader: No regrets
• L-ZONE
• Spaceship Warlock

We love localized game releases and multi-platform versions, and with this release we improved support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese , Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name a few. In particular, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.

Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We’ve completed a major GUI rework: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI displays. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we’ve now added a text-to-speech option to the games Sfinx, Soltys, and The Griffon Legend.

You can find all this goodness available for a variety of platforms on our downloads page, or let the auto-update start on Macintosh and Windows.

We wish you great adventures, happy puzzle solving and exciting journeys to RPG worlds, and hope to see you around for years to come.

And by the way, GOG.com is running a special promotion related to our release and anniversary where you can buy many ScummVM supported games at a discount.