How to play Ruins on Mac

PlatformsPlatform, Computer

Game summary

Ruins is hybrid roguelike/TTRPG dungeon crawling adventure game for one player and friends. It is inspired by old school dungeons and dragons, parser based adventure games, traditional roguelikes, and post-forge tabletop roleplaying games. Roll your own dice and keep your own notes as you explore infinite procedurally generated dungeons. Continue playing outside the game application, meeting with other delvers and roleplaying your communions, trades, and conversations huddled around the campfire. Delve deep into layers of complex history and right long forgotten wrongs, piecing together the ancient lore of the ruins.
First released: Apr 2020

Play Ruins on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Ruins 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).

Ruins 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 Ruins like you would on any PC.
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