The Secret of Monkey Island

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 to return to normal. The setting sticks between sessions.
• 🖱 Cursor mode — toggles trackpad-style control: drag anywhere to glide the cursor (it stays visible instead of hiding under your finger), tap to click where the cursor is, long-press for the default action. Tap it again to go back to direct touch. Taps on the verb/inventory strip always click right where you tap — the cursor stays aimed at the scene.
• ✨ Discovery — softly glows everything 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 (long-press a circle for its default action).
• 💾 Save / Load — opens the game's own Save / Load / Play / Quit screen.
• ⧉ Mini player — pops the picture out into a floating window (like YouTube), so a cutscene or conversation keeps playing while you use other apps. Watch-only: tap the window's button to return here and play on. iOS only allows this in Safari, not in the installed app — there, sound alone keeps playing in the background.
• ⌨ Keyboard — pops up the on-screen keyboard, for typing a savegame name.
• ⚙ Settings — music, speech, subtitles and text speed, 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

Graphics:

Switches instantly, any time — the classic DOS game always runs underneath.

Offline assets:

Storage budget

Waiting for the game to start…

The game is streamed from the server as you play. This keeps a copy on the device instead — artwork first, then the music, then the speech — so it stops re-downloading the same bytes every session.

Memory in use:

Waiting for the game to start…

This is RAM, not disk — the artwork the game is holding ready right now, separate from what is stored on the device above. When it fills, the least recently used artwork is dropped and re-read from storage on the next visit to that room.

Sound & text:

Music volume Ambience volume 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)

Touch control style:

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Credits

The Secret of Monkey Island — original game by Lucasfilm Games (1990).

Ultimate Talkie DOS Edition — fan-made voice restoration project splicing the CD Special Edition voice-over track onto the original DOS release.

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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