How to play Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns on Mac

Game summary

The creators of the original and award-winning match-3 RPG are back with the next chapter in the beloved and award-winning Puzzle Quest franchise. Get ready for Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns! Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is coming soon, exclusively for Nintendo Switch and features the original and totally remastered Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, the expansion Revenge of the Plague Lord, and a treasure chest full of new quests, classes, spells, and items created exclusively for the next chapter in the beloved Puzzle Quest series. Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is a unique match-3 puzzle game wrapped in a deep and immersive strategy and role-playing experience. Explore the many locations within the kingdom of Etheria, deep in the Agarian Forest, rekindling relationships or making new ones along your path. Head into battle and match three or more gems in a row to gain mana used to cast spells, clash with opponents, collect items and rewards, increase experience, and ultimately be VICTORIOUS! Select from your favorite character classes or choose from one of five new classes including Blood Mage, Priest, Monk, Paladin, and Elementalist. Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns brings more than 100 new quests, spells, and items, and a host of new monsters, bosses, and more! Test your skills in an epic journey against monsters and villains to save the kingdom of Etheria.
First released: Sep 2019

Play Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns 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).

Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns 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 Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns like you would on any PC.
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