How to play Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 3: The Sorceress of Smailholm on Mac

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Game summary

This time Ben Jordan travels to Smailholm, Scotland to investigate the murder of two children. Everything seems to point to witchery, so it's Ben's duty to investigate this crime. The interface is typical point and click with icons. The action is divided into days and there are two different paths towards the end. Also the game comes with a Handbook in HTML that contains some information that will be very helpful to solve the Smailholm mystery.
First released: Dec 2004

Play Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 3: The Sorceress of Smailholm on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 3: The Sorceress of Smailholm on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 3: The Sorceress of Smailholm installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 3: The Sorceress of Smailholm like you would on any PC.
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