How to play King's Quest: Chapter 3 - Once Upon A Climb on Mac

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Game summary

King’s Quest - Once Upon a Climb is the third chapter in the new, critically-acclaimed reimagining of the classic King’s Quest game series. In his latest adventure, King Graham recounts his most personal tale yet. When the magic mirror reveals the location of his one-true love, Graham must climb to daring new heights to save his future Queen. But what he encounters there might just send his notions of romance sailing out the window. Will Graham finally meet his match? Will it be love at first height? Will love-sickness have Graham seeing double? And when did he have time to go to the gym?
First released: Apr 2016

Play King's Quest: Chapter 3 - Once Upon A Climb on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play King's Quest: Chapter 3 - Once Upon A Climb 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).

King's Quest: Chapter 3 - Once Upon A Climb 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 King's Quest: Chapter 3 - Once Upon A Climb like you would on any PC.
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