Another year has gone by, therefore we are releasing a new ScummVM version. As you may notice right away, we are changing our version numbering schema, but that’s not all! We are also planning on more frequent releases!, which you can read about on sev’s blog.
This could be the biggest release we have made so far in terms of the added features and engines. If I count correctly, we have added 12 new engines to our compatibility page. Not games, engines. In terms of games, it is challenging to count, since two of the engines, SLUDGE and WAGE are authoring tools, but if you count games in our detection tables, that adds up to at least 194 titles.
Newly Supported Games:
- Dark Seed
- God of Thunder
- The Adventures of Willy Beamish
- Heart of China
- Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand
- Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu
- Little Longnose
- Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of the Earth
- Pilot Brothers 3D. The Case of Garden Pests
- Pilot Brothers 3D-2. Kennel Club Secrets
- Features of National Fishing
- Mom Don't Worry
- Dog-n-cat: In the Footsteps of Unprecedented Beasts
- Dog-n-cat: Island of Dr Ratiarty
- Out of this World (Another World)
- SLUDGE-based games
- Adibou 2: Nature & Sciences
- WAGE-based games
- Penumbra: Overture
- Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
- Mort&Phil: A Movie Adventure (Special Edition)
- Trick or Treat
- Hodj 'n' Podj
- The Last Express And probably various other games…
Apart from the games and engines, two very noticeable features are the massive improvement of Keymapper and Text-to-Speech. We ran a successful Google Summer of Code last year - Ellen Moon (ellen) worked on TTS and Aun Noman (Prime) added keymapper support to a huge amount of games. TTS is currently limited to desktops (Win/Lin/Mac), but we are working on support on the mobile platforms.
As usual, we have added support for more localizations - we love them! We also squashed a number of nasty bugs - we do not love them so much.
Engines and Games Improvements
The Private Eye engine got a major sound subsystem update, in addition to support for external subtitles. The SCUMM engine had a significant overhaul, and it now supports the original in-game GUI for DOS, Macintosh and Windows. The Humongous Entertainment subengine was fully revisited with practically impeccable compatibility, thanks to the efforts of Bosca. The Stark engine for The Longest Journey now has much better compatibility with graphics cards. The Wintermute engine is undergoing a complete code review with the game compatibility improving daily. Last but not least, the ZVision engine, running Zork Nemesis and Zork: Grand Inquisitor has acquired widescreen support, better sound, and better panorama rendering, upgrading your game experience to a new level all thanks to the work of Thomas N McEwan, who joined our team last year.
Platforms
On the subject of platform support, we now optionally support building with SDL3, support scaling shaders for 3D games, and significant upgrades for the Android, iOS and Atari ports.
The full release notes contain a comprehensive summary of the changes and enhancements.
On our downloads page, you can find the downloads for various platforms. The iOS version is available in the Apple App Store and the Android versions should soon be available in the Google Play Store. If you are using Windows, macOS, or either the Ubuntu Snap or Flatpak packages, the automatic updater will assist you in updating to ScummVM 2026.1.0.
A final point, if you encounter any unrecognized SLUDGE or WAGE engine games which we are not currently aware of, please let us know. You can either do this by filing a bug at bugs.scummvm.org or by chatting to us on Discord at https://discord.gg/4cDsMNtcpG. Happy gaming!
