ScummVM
ScummVM: a program that replaces the executables of hundreds of classic graphic adventures, text adventures, and RPGs so you can play them on current systems with the data files from your own copies. It began in 2001 for LucasArts games made with SCUMM, such as Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island series, and now brings together more than 120 engines, among them those of Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner, and, in 3D, Grim Fandango, Escape from Monkey Island, and Myst III. It offers scalers and filters, GLSL shaders you can download from within the program, aspect ratio correction, game and save syncing through Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Box, a web server for moving files over the local network, and text-to-speech for the launcher’s text. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and for many other platforms. Since 2026.1.0 it numbers versions by year and releases one every three months; the latest, 2026.4.0 (October 11), added nine Mortadelo y Filemón games, Dracula: Resurrection, Star Wars: Rebel Assault I and II, Dungeon Master, and over 140 games on the Wintermute engine. Its rules allow AI assistance under conditions and require declaring it in each commit: about 620 of its nearly 180,000 commits do, mostly with Codex, Kiro, and Claude. For some games it includes its own data files (such as kyra.dat, hugo.dat, or titanic.dat) with tables, text, and logic that came inside the original executables, plus patches for the Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island scripts.
You needThe data files from your own copies of the games, from the original discs or from digital stores; the project’s wiki lists the files each game needs, and many engines can read them straight from the original installers. Some games were released for free by their owners, and the Linux Snap package comes with several of them and some demos. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux, among other systems.
- How it gets to PC
- Fan reimplementation
- Author
- scummvm
- Stars
- 2.9k
- Last activity
- 2026-11-11 · today
- Latest version
- v2026.4.0 · 2026-10-11
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Language
- C++
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