How to play Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut on Mac

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Game summary

The Final Cut is the ultimate remastered special edition of Dreamfall Chapters — an award-winning episodic adventure spanning multiple worlds and playable characters. Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut edition combines all five episodes of the original game into one complete and continuous story, with reworked character designs, an expanded soundtrack, remastered audio and new dialogue, improved art, lighting and animations, and new special features. Dreamfall Chapters is a standalone game in The Longest Journey saga; a narrative adventure set in the twin worlds of science and magic. Embark on a magical journey across Stark and Arcadia in a story-driven game that mixes cyberpunk sci-fi with magical fantasy. Play as Zoë Castillo, a young woman seeking answers to her own identity; Kian Alvane, a disgraced Apostle and assassin seeking redemption; and Saga, a mysterious child trapped in a house between worlds. The Final Cut brings all the special features from the console versions to Windows, Mac and Linux; including a concept art gallery, character profiles, a new story recap – introducing the characters and bringing you up to speed with the events of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey — and playable deleted scenes. The complete story — remastered, reworked, recut Improved art, including redesigned character models, updated lighting and special effects Enhanced audio, featuring an expanded soundtrack, remastered dialogue and revamped sound design Brand new special features, containing playable deleted scenes, a concept art gallery and character profiles Improved performance and memory optimisations
First released: Jul 2017

Play Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut 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).

Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut 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 Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut like you would on any PC.
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