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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

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6 comments

hardpenguin 10 hours ago
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This project keeps on giving, I simply love it. Big thank you to all the contributors and maintainers.
pb 10 hours ago
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Heart 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.

Gigeresque Dark Seed is also something I've been meaning to play one day, but I don't see it on sale anywhere...
Arehandoro 10 hours ago
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When I moved to the UK I only had a tiny notebook with me, which I couldn't upgrade for some years, with Linux on it. Back then, there weren't many games on Linux, and much less that my laptop could run. ScummVM was my saviour, allowing me to play all the great LucasArts classics again. And for that, I'm super grateful.
CatKiller 9 hours ago
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Just a reminder that [Luxtorpeda](https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda) makes it super straightforward to use ScummVM (and DOSBox, and various engine reimplementations) with Steam games.
whizse 2 hours ago
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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 wheatlist wishlist it goes!
Linux_Rocks 2 hours ago
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Scummy. (But in a good way. lol)
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