How to play Castles of Mad King Ludwig on Mac

Game summary

"Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a great port of a really cool castle building board game." TouchArcade "A diverting tile-laying game. Excellent series of puzzles and tough AI." PocketGamer Ted Alspach's castle-building board game comes alive on iOS! The winner of the prestigious Mensa Mind Games award tasks players with building extravagant castles for King Ludwig of Bavaria. Castles are constructed one room at a time, with a different player each round setting the prices for the others, resulting in a competitive, engaging game where building is as much fun as winning! Choose your strategy carefully as you compete against your friends or AI (computer) opponents. Or take on the Campaign, and travel to 15 real-life castle sites, each with up to 3 unique Crown Goals, providing hours of fun and challenge. • Two to Four Player Pass-and-Play/Computer Matches • Campaign Mode with Levels based on Real Castle Sites • Training Tower Levels teach Game Basics • Help System with Illustrated Rules, Tips, and Tile Reference • 75 Different Room Tiles • Game Center Achievements • Orchestral Soundtrack • Share Your Castle on Twitter, Facebook, and more * For best user experience, an iPhone 6/6s/7 or larger or iPad is recommended. The original iPad and iPhone 4s and earlier are not supported. *
First released: May 2016

Play Castles of Mad King Ludwig on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Castles of Mad King Ludwig 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).

Castles of Mad King Ludwig 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 Castles of Mad King Ludwig like you would on any PC.
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