How to play Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway on Mac

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Game summary

軒轅劍外傳: 雲之遙 (Chinese) The Clouds Faraway, also set in the era of the Three Kingdoms, is presented with a contrasting viewpoint to the Han Clouds. The main character, Xu Muyun (徐暮雲), was adopted by Xu Shu and raised in the Kingdom of Wei. Muyun grew up with his childhood friends Lanyin (蘭茵) and Zhang Gao (張誥) in the house of Zhang He, and the three youngsters vowed to fight for their homeland and bring about prosperous days together. Through his journey, Muyun came to a new level of maturity, learned of his true identity, realized the meaning of duty and friendship, and witnessed the ruthlessness of war. The story is continued after the main game in three DLC chapters, released to enrich the story. These three chapters are: The Chapter of Wuzhang Plains: Muyun (Chinese: 五丈原暮雲篇), The Chapter of Wuzhang Plains: Zhaoyun (Chinese: 五丈原朝雲篇), and the lengthy and critically acclaimed Chapter of Lan Yin (Chinese: 蘭茵篇).
First released: Jan 2010

Play Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway 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).

Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway 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 Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway like you would on any PC.
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