It is hard to believe, but a quarter-century and a couple of days ago, the ScummVM Project saw its first public commit by Ludvig Strigeus aka ludde.

So many things have changed, and we continue to follow our new release cadence. Without further ado, let's discuss what is coming with the 2026.4.0 release.

First of all, we have a huge number of newly added and enhanced engines:

Newly Supported Games:

• Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine Edición Original
• Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos vaqueros chapuceros
• Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor
• Mortadelo y Filemón: La Sexta Secta
• Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú
• Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra
• Mortadelo y Filemón: La Banda de Corvino
• Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y Patadones
• Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la Romana
• Dracula: Resurrection
• Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary
• Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy
• The Cameron Files: The Secret at Loch Ness
• The Messenger / Louvre: The Final Curse
• Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
• Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor
• Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
• Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
• Nancy Drew: Danger by Design
• Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave
• Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire
• Dragonsphere
• Return of the Phantom
• Once Upon a Forest
• Alpha Polaris
• Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
• Barrow Hill - The Dark Path
• Dark Fall: Lost Souls
• Devil In The Capital
• Dirty Split
• Face Noir
• Ghost in the Sheet
• Hamlet
• The Lost Crown - A Ghost-Hunting Adventure
• Murder In Tehran's Alleys 2016
• Murder In Tehran's Alleys 1933
• Reversion series
• Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
• Shadows on the Vatican series
• other Wintermute engine games, over 140 titles
• Der Schatz im Silbersee (Treasure of the Silver Lake)
• The Fool's Errand
• Harvester
• Lord Avalot d'Argent
• Dungeon Master
• Eagle Eye Mysteries
• Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

If I count correctly, there are 194 newly supported games and 12 new engines!

General enhancements

We made some improvements to our Event Recorder, sped up sound mixing by using a faster OPL3 AdLib sound chip emulator, and added support for yet another installer type, so it is easier to run the games without the requirement of running their original installer.

Engine bugfixes and improvements

Seventeen engines were enhanced and improved. Sanitarium got walking sounds fixed; Another World now has better compatibility with big-endian systems; the GLK engine got support for some ZX Spectrum games. We finally completed the Hopkins engine by implementing its shooter mini-game (based on a small engine similar to Wolfenstein 3D). Kyra engine got automap in EOB games, and Korean fan translations of Legend of Kyrandia are now supported. A long-standing bug with pathfinding in Lure of the Tempress has been fixed. Also, we fixed a handful of bugs in Riddle of Master Lu; it makes it not an easy task, since all the game logic is hardcoded and not in scripts. Might and Magic got several facelifts, crash fixes, and small QoL improvements. Nancy engine is on the roll, and we fixed bugs in already supported games, on top of six announced in this release. Even the SCUMM engine got its C64 and early Windows HE titles compatibility improved. We added MT-32 support to the TsAGE engine, and fixed deadlocks in the V-Cruise engine games.

Port improvements

Atari port got optional integration with the nFM sound library.

The complete and comprehensive changelog can be found in the release notes.

The port builds will follow shortly; for now, you can enjoy the Windows, macOS (including PPC!), Dreamcast, Haiku and OpenDingux releases.