ScummVM 2026.4.0 adds support for Star Wars: Rebel Assault and Harvester

The ScummVM team has released version 2026.4.0, adding native playback support for dozens of new adventure games including Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Harvester, and a massive slate of Nancy Drew titles. The update is available now across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and various homebrew console ports.

For the unfamiliar, ScummVM isn't a traditional hardware emulator. Instead of pretending to be a 486 PC or a Macintosh, it's an open-source framework that completely rewrites the original game executables. If you provide the original data files, ScummVM runs the game logic natively on modern hardware. Programmer Ludvig Strigeus launched the project in October 2001 specifically to run LucasArts titles built on the SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) engine, like The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. Over the last 25 years, the development group has grown to include dozens of international contributors led by project leaders like Eugene Sandulenko. They have expanded the software far beyond LucasArts, reverse-engineering engines from Sierra, Revolution Software, and American Laser Games.

The Q4 2026 additions

This release marks the fourth major milestone since the project switched to a calendar-based versioning scheme in January 2026. According to the official v2026.4.0 release tag, the engine compatibility list has grown significantly.

The biggest additions are the two Star Wars: Rebel Assault games and DigiFX Interactive's infamous 1996 horror adventure Harvester. Getting the original DOS release of Harvester to run smoothly on modern displays usually requires wrestling with DOSBox cycles. It also brings in Microids' Dracula: Resurrection and Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy.

The MicroProse Adventure Development System (MADS) engine gets a major boost. MicroProse built this proprietary engine for a handful of adventure games in the early 1990s before selling it to Sanctuary Woods. While Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender has been supported for years, version 2026.4.0 finally adds the rest of the MADS catalog: Dragonsphere, Return of the Phantom, and Once Upon a Forest.

Six Nancy Drew games at once

The sheer volume of Nancy Drew games added in this single update is frankly ridiculous. Her Interactive's long-running mystery series is a staple of early 2000s PC gaming, and this release makes six of them fully playable through the engine: Secret of Shadow Ranch, Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Secret of the Old Clock, Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, Danger by Design, and The Creature of Kapu Cave. These games originally ran on a proprietary engine that doesn't always play nicely with modern Windows 11 machines, so having them running natively through ScummVM is a massive usability upgrade.

The update also folds in support for several Spanish-language Mortadelo y Filemón titles, the 1987 Macintosh puzzle game The Fool's Errand, and the 2011 horror game Alpha Polaris.

ScummVM remains completely free. You'll still need to provide your own legal copies of the game data files, whether from original CD-ROMs or digital storefronts like GOG and Steam.