ScummVM is an excellent tool that preserves a lot of classic games with new game engines to run on modern platforms and a huge 2026.1.0 release is out now.
The developers of it said that it might be the "biggest release we have made so far in terms of the added features and engines". With this release 12 new game engines were added and thanks to just 2 of them there's around 194 new games supported.

Some of the highlights of games supported now includes:
- Dark Seed
- God of Thunder
- The Adventures of Willy Beamish
- Heart of China
- Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand
- Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu
- Little Longnose
- Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of the Earth
- Pilot Brothers 3D. The Case of Garden Pests
- Pilot Brothers 3D-2. Kennel Club Secrets
- Features of National Fishing
- Mom Don't Worry
- Dog-n-cat: In the Footsteps of Unprecedented Beasts
- Dog-n-cat: Island of Dr Ratiarty
- Out of this World (Another World)
- SLUDGE-based games
- Adibou 2: Nature & Sciences
- WAGE-based games
- Penumbra: Overture
- Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
- Mort&Phil: A Movie Adventure (Special Edition)
- Trick or Treat
- Hodj 'n' Podj
- The Last Express And probably various other games…
Multiple game engines saw big upgrades with the release too.
This release also saw big improvements to their Keymapper and Text-to-Speech systems. On top of that ScummVM can now be built with SDL3, there's support for scaling shaders for 3D games and significant upgrades for the Android, iOS and Atari ports.
Source: ScummVM blog
Gigeresque Dark Seed is also something I've been meaning to play one day, but I don't see it on sale anywhere...
Quoting: pbHeart of China... I have it on my must-play list since forever (ok, since 1991). Has the time finally come? It's on GOG, too.I'm only familiar with a handful of the games on that list, kind of hard to separate wheat from the chaff, but thanks to your comment, and a quick skim on Wikipedia, Heart of China seems right up my alley. On the



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