ScummVM User Reviews

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Amazing

I can play Quest for Glory with MT-32 music on my phone. This is incredible.

Wonderful!

Iโ€™m so pleased to see this on the AppStore. Iโ€™m a huge fan of this project and am just so grateful I no longer need to sideload to enjoy it. Iโ€™m not sure how you got this through approval but thanks all the same. Looking forward to official updates. Good luck and good work!

Overall good, could use a few QOL improvements

It took me a little while to figure out how to add games. The steps of having to first connect a cloud service and then copy the games from its special Dropbox folder (in my case) to local storage was a bit clunky. The quick connect method for Dropbox did not work and while the manual method did, I would have liked an error message explaining the nature of the failure to see if there was anything I could easily have done about it. Internal documentation is scanty. Pinch to bring up the keyboard (to access keys like F5 or period, useful in SCUMM games) was surprisingly not that awkward. Direct mouse simulation (tap to move pointer and tap to click) works well and I hardly notice I'm not playing on PC much of the time.
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This app is excellent! No questions asked!

Needs improvement

This app is a nice fork to Retroarch especially since it bypassed Apple on the AppStore. The thing it lacks are better UI, easier navigation, more significant way to add games, etc etc. Good job though, Iโ€™m glad to see better emulators on the AppStore!

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. This first release was an important milestone for us but we are aware that usability could be improved. We will work on this in future updates. Note however that ScummVM is not an emulator (nor a Retroarch fork) but a reimplementation of the original game executables for iOS (and many other platforms). ๐Ÿ˜‰

Excellent and honestly about time!

I hope this is here to stay, given that it's literally a VM.

Response from developer

No, it is not a Virtual Machine. It is a name. In reality, it is a specific set of game engines, often directly from their source code, nothing to do with emulation or virtualisation.

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