How to play Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition on Mac

Game summary

"Explore twisting caverns, ancient cities and deadly wastes. Battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs. Uncover ancient history and solve mysteries buried at the kingdom's heart. Hollow Knight Voidheart Edition includes: - The original, award winning, action adventure. - 4 giant Content Packs, built in at launch, expanding the game with all new quests, terrifying boss fights and striking new abilities. Game Features - Classic side-scrolling action, with all the modern trimmings. - Forge your own path! The world of Hallownest is expansive and open. - Evolve with powerful new skills and abilities! - Equip Charms! Ancient relics that offer bizarre new powers and abilities. - An enormous cast of cute and creepy characters all brought to life with traditional 2D frame-by-frame animation. - An epic orchestral score, with over 40 tracks! - Over 150 enemies with 40 epic bosses!"
First released: Sep 2018

Play Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition 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).

Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition 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 Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition like you would on any PC.
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