ScummVM Web Demo

GAME BRIEF

What's the game?

Christian Kündig wrote ScummVM's browser port, and this page is his demo of it: ScummVM built for the web with a game list already set up. The Curse of Monkey Island demo is LucasArts' own 1997 demo. It starts with the game's opening, Guybrush adrift in a bumper car under the moon and then LeChuck's ship and its skeleton crew, and hands over in the ship's hold with Wally and a cannon, where you point and click. The list also has demos of Full Throttle, Myst, Riven, Broken Sword II, The Longest Journey, Phantasmagoria and Sanitarium, plus the whole of Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back, a 1996 Spanish comedy adventure its makers later made free.

BEFORE YOU PLAY

What to expect

Free, with no account and no ads. In our Chrome check ScummVM itself took about 45 MB before the game list showed; each game's files load when you start it. Unofficial: its maker calls it an unofficial demo of the web port, and the page loads Sentry error reporting. Six entries in the list are greyed out and would not start on November 2: Beneath a Steel Sky gave 'Path does not exist', and the same goes for Flight of the Amazon Queen, Lure of the Temptress, Grim Fandango, Escape from Monkey Island and a Macromedia Director game. Drascula warns that its CD music is missing, then plays without it. The full Curse of Monkey Island isn't here; ScummVM plays it from your own copy of the game.

Controls: Mouse. Click to walk and to use things. In The Curse of Monkey Island, hold the button on something for the verb coin (hand, skull, parrot); right-click opens the inventory. Ctrl+F5 opens ScummVM's menu (save, load, back to the game list). We only tried a mouse on desktop.