How to play Halcyon on Mac
Game summary
Halcyon is an in-development NES game that is a mash-up of concepts from Blaster Master, Metroid, and Super Metroid.
You have crash-landed on planet Halcyon, and found that the planet is teeming with antagonistic creatures, and remains of an ancient civilization. Can you survive long enough to discover the secrets and history of this stark alien world?
Featuring numerous weapons and power-ups in a non-linear metroidvanis-style world, Halcyon attempts to bring best elements of exploration and challenge back to the original platform that started the metroidvania genre: the Nintendo Entertainment System.
First released: Dec 2021
Play Halcyon on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Halcyon 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).
Halcyon 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 Halcyon like you would on any PC.
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