How to play on your phone

• Tap the screen to walk and interact. Pick a verb (Open, Look at, Talk to…) then tap the thing.
• Double-tap a thing to do its default action right away — pick up the mug, open the door. (Press-and-hold does the same.)
• Flick the screen to walk off that way — left, right, up or down. In cursor mode, flick with two fingers (one finger steers the cursor).
• During conversations, tap to advance a line, or tap a response to reply.
• ⏭ Skip — skips the current cutscene (the intro, and scene intros). Same as Esc on a PC.
• ⏩ Fast-forward — tap to run at speed through long cutscenes or chatter, tap again for normal — the choice sticks, even across restarts.
• ✨ Discovery — softly glows what you can interact with in the room: gold circles for things, blue for people. The glow follows the scene as it scrolls; tap the button again to turn it off. The circles are tap targets: pick a verb, tap a circle, and the action lands on that thing — no cursor steering needed. With a verb picked, only things that actually answer it keep glowing (pick "Pick up" and the room shows what's takeable). With no verb picked, tapping the circle of something takeable looks at it; double-tap or hold the circle and Guybrush walks over and picks it up. Long-press elsewhere still does the default action.
• 💾 Save / Load — opens the game's own Save / Load / Play / Quit screen.
• 🎤 Commentary — downloads the remaster's developer-commentary audio (42 MB) to this device. Off by default; playing it in-game is a feature still to come.
• ⌨ Keyboard — pops up the on-screen keyboard, for typing a savegame name.
• ⚙ Settings — music, speech, subtitles, text speed and the touch control style (classic / simplified / touchpad cursor), changeable while you play.
• 📌 Pin — keeps these buttons always visible instead of fading away.
• ⌂ Home — saves and returns to this title screen (Continue picks up right where you left off).
• Unless pinned, the controls fade away while you play — tap the screen to bring them back.
• New Game never erases anything — your current playthrough is backed up automatically and stays under Load Game (as “Earlier game”, with its last-played time), like a game history.

Tip: turn the phone sideways for a bigger picture. Your progress and saves are kept on this device.

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Load Game

No saved games yet. Save from inside the game (💾 button) and your saves will appear here.

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Settings

Start a game first, then tap this. It jumps to Dinky Island — the hole. Then leave it completely alone and watch the screen. After about half a minute the scene may change by itself. If the app vanishes, reopen it and tell us roughly how long after the scene changed that happened.

Graphics:

The HD art alarm stops the game the moment a frame cannot be drawn with the Special Edition’s own artwork, and shows exactly which character and animation it was — instead of quietly showing one frame of the old DOS picture, which is far too easy to miss. It also asks about characters the artwork deliberately draws as nothing, so you can tell us whether that was intended. Turn it off and the game never stops for it — but it is still written to the log and reported to us.

Switches instantly, any time — the classic DOS game always runs underneath. Room changes wait until the new room’s HD artwork and sound are completely ready before showing it, so nothing appears half-drawn.

Picture shape (landscape):

The game was drawn for a 4:3 screen, so 4:3 is the only shape that shows it undistorted. The others stretch it to fill more of a sideways screen — 16:10 (the default) uses most of the width with only mild stretch, “Fill the screen” uses all of it and stretches the most. Portrait always stays 4:3.

Admin: debug boxes outline each HD character part (magenta head / green body) while placement work continues. “Seamless room loading” (on by default, forced on for players) waits at each room change until the new room’s HD artwork and sound are completely ready — you stay on the previous picture for the split second the art takes, and a room that still has to download shows a proper Special Edition loading screen. Turn it off to get the old behaviour: rooms appear instantly and sharpen from DOS to HD as the art arrives. Render pacing off = the diagnostic mode (every repaint whole, may crackle audio).

Offline assets:

Storage budget

Waiting for the game to start…

Boot report: start a game and the timeline (engine up, room entered, HD loaded, ambience events) appears here — tap it to copy everything.

Sound & text:

Music volume Sound effects volume Ambience volume Audio buffer

Runs game audio on its own thread to shrink the delay before you hear a voice. Experimental — switching it restarts the app (the audio path is chosen at startup). The buffer is the delay before you hear anything: smaller = snappier, too small = stuttering. Leave it at Auto and it finds the lowest setting your device plays cleanly (it shows what it picked); drag it to pin a value yourself — that applies instantly, no restart.

Diagnostic toggle (temporary, 2026-07-28 crash hunt). “Speech pacing” is the Special-Edition-style dialogue timing where each spoken line holds until its voice clip finishes. Off = the classic text-timer pacing. Leave it on unless we ask you to test a run with it off.

Text speed slow → fast

Dialogue choices (the sentences you pick in conversations):

Dialogue text size

Drawn with the game's own font — applies instantly, adjustable mid-conversation.

Discovery circle size (the ✨ glow markers)

Off hides scenery that answers every verb with the same stock line ("I can't pick that up"), and while a verb is picked only things that answer that verb glow. On glows every named thing, always.

Touch control style:

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Credits

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge — original game by LucasArts (1991).

ScummVM — the GPL-licensed engine interpreting the game data, compiled to WebAssembly for this app.

This app is a private, personal build for the owner's own use only — not for redistribution.

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Version history

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