How to play Starlight Acres on Mac

Game summary

Starlight Acres is a Terraforming-Farming game for iPhone and iPad. In Starlight Acres, the player has to take care of a herd of animals that find themselves on a planet they are not used to. By utilizing base building, farming, altering the environment, and genetic modification, the player must change the planet to match the animals' needs so that they can survive and reproduce. Starlight Acres is a calm and friendly resource management game based on actual Terraforming science (gamified and sped up of course).

Play Starlight Acres on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Starlight Acres 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).

Starlight Acres 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 Starlight Acres like you would on any PC.
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