How to play Zen Garden on Mac

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Game summary

Noisy train trips or a shaky flight? Don't worry. Zen Garden gives you three unique musical environments, tailored for comfort and relaxation. This virtual reality experience is not a game, but an app aimed to help you relax, similar to hits like Guided Meditation. We want to help you relax with musical instruments that react to your gaze, placed in calm, lush environments even in the most noisy and stressful of context. Temple: This scene is inspired by the famous dome structure of rome, Pantheon. It contains a great amount of cozy candles and heavenly choirs if you gaze up to the eye of the building. Garden: For ultimate relaxation we have the Zen Garden. It contains multiple instruments inspired by ancient china with the purpose to calm your nerves. Instruments include Spheres of light, wind chimes, gong gong and floating lanterns. Oasis: Our more mysterious scene, taking place in the middle of the Sahara desert. Featuring a bedouin camp with a clear starry sky for roof. On the ground level there is a campfire giving a cozy but intense feeling to your own personal bedouin camp.
First released: Nov 2016

Play Zen Garden on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Zen Garden 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).

Zen Garden 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 Zen Garden like you would on any PC.
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