How to play Versailles Mysteries: Oscar and the Athanor on Mac

Game summary

The devious Du Noï wants to find the Athanor’s secret and it’s up to you to stop him! Alchemy, cunning spies and foul treacheries will enthral you through many hours of surprising twists and turns in the court of reigning King Louis XIV. Live the life of a 17th century gentleman using humour, logic and shrewd judgement to avoid the deadly traps of the Sun King's court in an adventure set across 25 historically accurate locations. Meet more than 30 characters, some fun, others deadly, including Totiri the Huron, The Marquess of Armantas, Batistini the painter and Master Theodore the great alchemist. Mini-games will teach you essential skills: learn to dance the Menuet in an historical interpretation of popular interactive dancing games, train to use a dagger and grappinou by proving your courage in a fight, and discover how to decipher fiendish enigmas.

Play Versailles Mysteries: Oscar and the Athanor on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Versailles Mysteries: Oscar and the Athanor 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).

Versailles Mysteries: Oscar and the Athanor 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 Versailles Mysteries: Oscar and the Athanor like you would on any PC.
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