How to play The Pet Girl of Sakurasou on Mac

Game summary

Suiko-high has two dormitories, one of them is for normal students, the other, Sakura-sou is for students who'll drive normal students crazy. Kanda Sorata is a boy who attracts stray cats and can't throw them away, for this, he is thrown out of the normal dormitory. In Sakura-sou, he meets the odd prodigies and is in charge of taking care of them. With them, he finds his dream and perhaps, his soul mate.The gamer becomes Sorata and is tasked to take the first-prize of the game-making competition. Create a team out of all the oddballs in Sakura-sou. There are aspiring artists, screen writers and seiyuu living in the dorm, meet with them, converse with them and take care of them as you create a proposal, an alpha version, a beta version and then the final product. As your game completes, cement your bond with a very special girl.
First released: Feb 2013

Play The Pet Girl of Sakurasou on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play The Pet Girl of Sakurasou 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).

The Pet Girl of Sakurasou 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 The Pet Girl of Sakurasou like you would on any PC.
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