How to play City of Lost Children on Mac

Game summary

Kidnappings, robberies, dark characters, and stolen dreams are just part of the fantastic landscapes in The City of Lost Children. As a 10 year old orphan, you must rely on your street smarts to solve the mystery of why the City's children are vanishing one by one ... and where in this eerie labyrinth of back alleys and foreboding warehouses will the plot take another wickedly clever twist? Prepare yourself for a brilliant flight of the imagination and a breathtaking graphical experience. Because in the City of Lost Children, there are no dead ends. Only more adventures.
First released: Mar 1997

Play City of Lost Children on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play City of Lost Children 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).

City of Lost Children 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 City of Lost Children like you would on any PC.
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