How to play Mineko's Night Market on Mac

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Game summary

Mineko's Night Market is a narrative-driven adventure/merchant simulation game about crafting crafts, eating eats, and… catting cats. You play as Mineko, a curious girl who has just arrived at her new home on a struggling superstitious Japanese-inspired island at the base of Mount Fugu. The locals on the island worship the Sun Cat, Abe. What was always thought to be a long-told myth has the town puzzled, as sightings of Abe have begun to surface among the residents of the island in recent days. Discover the secrets behind the town while managing your daily activities, completing various jobs, ven-turing on whimsical quests, and crafting peculiar items in preparation for the weekly Night Market! Mineko's Night Market is a game that celebrates Japanese culture while introducing a heartwarming story about friendship, tradition, and many, many cats. Key Features: 20+ hours of story-based gameplay that is open-ended for infinite replayability Craft peculiar items with the resources you find around the world through a variety of work-bench mini-games Befriend and barter with the 80+ townsfolk at the weekly Night Market to sell almost anything you make and find Play and compete in a variety of Night Market games like cat racing, octopus pull, and sumo-suit wrestling
First released: Dec 2021

Play Mineko's Night Market on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Mineko's Night Market 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).

Mineko's Night Market 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 Mineko's Night Market like you would on any PC.
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