The Curse of Monkey Island

Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island	1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge	1991
The Curse of Monkey Island	1997
Escape from Monkey Island	2000
Tales of Monkey Island	2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition	2009
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge	2010
Return to Monkey Island	2022

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Use ScummVM or the Curse of Monkey Island Launcher to run without disc.
GOG.com		Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Steam

A demo is available from SCUMMVM's demos.

The GOG.com release does not include the original desktop icon, and the Steam release uses a lower resolution icon. A replacement can be found here.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.c01^{[Note 1]}
Steam
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\monkey3.ini
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730820/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.c`*`^{[Note 1]}
Steam
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\Saves <path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.s`*`
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730820/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Traditional saving is unreliable in the GOG.com re-release; it is recommended to use ScummVM to save instead using the F1 key.

ScummVM Save file extensions are numbered relative to the save file (e.g. Save 4 will be named monkey3.s04)

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

In-game settings, accessed by pressing F1 (Ctrl+F1 when using ScummVM).^{[Note 3]}

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian				Fan translation by «Dragon's Dominion Group»
Spanish

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			64-bit support requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)			Use ScummVM.
Linux			Use ScummVM.

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	INSANE

This program replaces the launcher of the game, and it also adds a number of features to the game

Can run Curse of Monkey Island from hard drive (play without the discs) and can automatically copy the required files to the hard drive.
Can run Curse of Monkey Island in windowed mode
Can enable Curse of Monkey Island's debug mode.

Not compatible with digital rereleases.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/730820/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (730820) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ The greyed out Enable 3D acceleration is a gag, and does not actually do anything, even on capable hardware.