How to play Silent Hill: Play Novel on Mac

Game summary

Silent Hill: Play Novel is an adaptation of the original Silent Hill for Game Boy Advance in the form of visual novel. It was only released in Japan, but the game has been translated and adapted into different ports by fans. Silent Hill: Play Novel is an interactive story: at certain moments the player is asked to choose between two or more possible options, which can affect the rest of the story. Besides the narration, the game features some puzzles and multiple endings.
First released: Mar 2001

Play Silent Hill: Play Novel on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Silent Hill: Play Novel 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).

Silent Hill: Play Novel 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 Silent Hill: Play Novel like you would on any PC.
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