How to play Thunderbird: The Legend Begins on Mac

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Game summary

Thunderbird is an award-winning Virtual Reality adventure series that transports you to a world of wonder where myths come true and legends become real right before your eyes. Driven by physics-based interactive puzzles, this transformative journey unfolds according to your every action guiding you deeper into the heart of an ancient realm for a memorable encounter with the legendary Thunderbird. Created by one of the developers behind 1997’s best-selling game, Riven: The Sequel to Myst, Thunderbird fuses key elements from classic adventure games with next-gen tech to provide an unsurpassed level of immersion with stunning visual depth, life-like interactions, and a sense of realism never before possible. In the spirit of films like Indiana Jones, Thunderbird is an interactive adventure where exploration and discovery are key motivators in driving the overall experience. The strong sense of mystery and the reward of discovery combine within Thunderbird to create a most engaging experience for the truly adventurous at heart. Drawing its inspiration from both eastern and western cultures, Thunderbird honors the old and the new by bringing together science and magic with logic and myth to create a broadly appealing and uniquely fulfilling experience for all demographics.
First released: Feb 2017

Play Thunderbird: The Legend Begins on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Thunderbird: The Legend Begins 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).

Thunderbird: The Legend Begins 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 Thunderbird: The Legend Begins like you would on any PC.
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