Quote from: spaceagemeats on October 22, 2026, 01:09:31 PM

Quote from: UltimateLemmings on October 16, 2026, 11:10:23 PMThat's a concession to ease touch-play for new players. You can turn it off (as do I) in settings.

yup, found that in the options! honestly, I think the pause function is a smart move for new players. and I appreciate the option to toggle it off. really loving the experience on the iPad. its how I primarily play this now.

Good to know! Really focusing on the iPad experience today as we love it too. iPad horizontal should be much closer to the macOS experience and UX than the mobile UX, so that's a big target for the next release!

2.0.6 is out with smoother play

The playfield, the minimap and the skill panel draw faster. With Macintosh
artwork on a P3 display, the panel draw time fell from 3.9 ms to 1.65 ms.
Classic and NeoLemmix redraws between ticks reuse their colour-matched pixels.

A level result no longer pauses the game when you have a long play history.
The career leaderboard and the result screen reuse earlier analysis. A new
level starts without a full records write on the main thread. Cloud progress
no longer rewrites its local file when nothing has changed.

Saved records, attempts and leaderboards keep the same format. Earlier saves
load without changes.

Shining arrows

On an HDR display, Classic one-way arrows in Macintosh colour artwork catch the
light on their upper and left edges. The peak is 1.5 times SDR white, or less
when the screen has less headroom. SDR screens show the same pixels as before.

Menu music

Most launches play the Amiga or the Macintosh title theme. One launch in eight
plays the title theme from another version of the game. To turn the menu theme
off, clear Settings > Audio > Main menu: Play main theme.

The tracker music no longer crackles at startup. Before, each launch and focus
event restarted the fade-in of the menu theme.

Controller steps

Hold LT + LB / RB (Create + L1 / R1 on Apple TV) to scrub one tick at a time.
On a DualSense, slide a finger left or right on the touchpad to step back or
forward. Each step gives a light haptic tick. This works in Classic, The Tribes
and Chronicles on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.

Pointer

The Amiga cross now shows around gameplay in every pointer style, in Classic,
The Tribes and Chronicles. Menus keep the system arrow.

Earlier 2.0.5 changes

• The death counter's skull no longer shrinks the gameplay status text.
• With Macintosh graphics, a lemming jumps into the centre of the drawn exit.
• Replays and saves do not change.
• In Chronicles, a Mole that touches steel follows the original game more
• closely. The bundled Chronicles routes keep their 2.0.4 results.

Join the TestFlight beta for Apple TV!

Also new updates for all platforms: stop looping levels when resuming a Golden Path journey, tons of engine optimisations, working global leaderboards and more!

76 testers on iOS, no crashes, no feedback (!). Can say that this is a fairly polished port by now!

Quote from: spaceagemeats on October 16, 2026, 01:16:30 PMso far VERY impressed with how this translated to iPad. i'm using classic controls on an older iPad Pro and have had no issues.

i suppose pausing the game when selecting a Lemming action was the only way to amount for tap controls vs. mouse? or is there a way to play in realtime?

That's a concession to ease touch-play for new players. You can turn it off (as do I) in settings.

23 testers overnight!

Quote from: Europasat43m. on October 15, 2026, 08:52:44 AMThanks for all the work you are doing . Are u planning to release it on windows pcs?. I have a Mac laptop which i can test it on and it works amazing and also windows Pcs but I don't have an iPad.  and can you give me the invitation code for the Testflight app as i currently have an iphone.

Thanks a lot.

Probably not going to port it to Windows and or Linux myself, but the code is open source. The link above is an open TestFlight link so it you are the first of 100 to sign up it's yours to test and keep!

We are out of beta with 2.0 - Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV! NEW THREAD

Let's go! I've released Ultimate Lemmings 2.0, my unofficial native now out of beta Swift port of the 2D Lemmings games, official and unofficial, for macOS, iOS, and tvOS. (iOS and Apple TV still in open TestFlight testing).


If this is your first encounter with the project, welcome! If you've followed the earlier releases, thank you for playing and sharing feedback.


What is Ultimate Lemmings?

Lemmings is a puzzle game about guiding a crowd to safety. The lemmings keep walking, even when that means walking into danger. You assign skills to turn them around, build bridges, dig through obstacles and find a route to the exit. Getting enough of them home is the puzzle.

Ultimate Lemmings brings Classic Lemmings, its expansions and related content together with native versions of The Tribes and Chronicles. You can revisit familiar levels, explore community creations, follow a learning journey or take turns with someone beside you in local Hot Seat.

It is perfect for touch controls. It even sings in vertical format on an iPhone. There are special delights included for iPhone Duo.

Optional modern controls give you room to experiment: rewind, instant retry, flexible speed, Precision Zoom and tiered hints. You can choose the presentation and assistance that suit how you want to play.

Every single soundtrack from every port, including fan remixes are included, and put to good use with the dynamic DJ function: Music is mixed together with jubilant versions of the same track being played once you meet the saved quota. There's HDR selection FX. Real nukes! Rewind, spindowns, spinups. You'll get it when you hear it. It is pure JOY!

The feature leading 2.0 is the original 1-bit Macintosh artwork, with a matching black-and-white gameplay panel. It is a wonderful way to revisit these games, or discover them for the first time.


Original Macintosh terrain, animated objects and lemmings, with matching monochrome gameplay controls.


Download Ultimate Lemmings 2.0 for Macintosh

Join the TestFlight beta for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPhone Duo)

Join the TestFlight beta for Apple TV

Two colours. Immaculate dithering.

A salute to the original artists behind Psygnosis's Macintosh releases: their immaculate dithering deserves to be celebrated. Patterned rock, shading and tiny animated figures give black and white texture, depth and character. These artists made a single bit do an extraordinary amount of work.

The new option uses the original Macintosh black-and-white artwork banks for terrain, animated objects and lemming poses. The matching gameplay panel carries that look into the stone controls, bitmap lettering and skill selection. Optional permanent-skill backpacks use diagonal dithering for Climber, horizontal stripes for Floater and a checker pattern for both (custom addition to match the modern QoL affordances of this port!)


The original Macintosh dithering, up close.

Choose Settings → Graphics → Classic artwork → Artwork → Macintosh (1-bit). You can switch artwork during an attempt and keep your terrain edits and rewind history.

This choice covers Classic and its supported expansion families. The Tribes, Chronicles and NeoLemmix keep their separate artwork options. Reconstructed or missing fan pieces use monochrome dithering. Optional effects and the pointer keep their own settings.

What can I play?

• Classic Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings and seasonal content.
  
• Port-exclusive conversions and supported expansion families, including the Oh Yes! collection.
  
• Community levels, with a bundled Classic fan library of 6,020 levels across 535 packs.
  
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes, with its twelve tribes and their different skill sets.
  
• Lemmings 3: Chronicles, with its distinct tools and carried resources.
  
• Supported NeoLemmix content, subject to its current Beta support and required styles.
  

The different games retain their own rules and artwork choices. Their current support status is explained below.


Browse the games and packs, choose a level, or return to a personal favourite.

Ways to play

Learn and experiment. Try a route, rewind a mistake and adjust your timing on supported engines. Flexible speed and Precision Zoom help with both waiting and precise assignments. Tiered hints let you ask for a little help before revealing more. Need even more help? See below!

Follow a journey. Curated golden path journeys offer a route through levels that won't slam you into a difficulty walls the way the originals did! Supported saved journeys and sequence playlists can resume the actual attempt, with its simulation position, selected action and camera.

Keep your own collection. Personal profiles hold your records and favourites. Collections also keeps your last 50 distinct levels played, so you can find something you tried recently.

Share the Mac. Local Hot Seat lets players take turns on the same machine. The current player stays identified, and handovers wait for Ready. Retries and restored turns preserve ownership and stay paused until the player is ready.


Local Hot Seat: pass the controls, then choose Ready when the next player is settled.

Study a solution. Classic levels with a matching verified solution can show a recorded replay. After revealing it, you can enable Ghost solution to overlay translucent blue lemmings alongside your own attempt. They follow the current tick through play, pause, speed changes and rewind, without spending your skills or making moves for you.

The ghosts follow their recorded terrain. Their bridges and tunnels can differ from yours, so use them to study a route and its timing. Ghost overlays are a Classic feature.


Blue solution ghosts alongside the live attempt. Your lemmings, skills and terrain remain yours to control.

Choose the look and sound. Classic offers DOS, Amiga and Macintosh artwork choices. The app also has hundreds of soundtrack versions, with optional music libraries for people who enjoy comparing the different arrangements.

What's changed since 1.9.6?

For returning players, these are the main changes across 1.9.7 and 2.0:

• Original Macintosh 1-bit graphics, with matching monochrome gameplay controls and distinct backpack patterns.
  
• Resume the attempt inside a journey. Supported checkpoints restore the simulation position, selected action and camera. Classic, The Tribes and Chronicles restore paused. Older saves without a checkpoint continue from their saved level.
  
• Optional Classic ghost solutions. Reveal a verified solution, then follow its blue silhouettes alongside your attempt. Same-player retries retain the choice. A different level or player clears the revealed solution.
  
• Clearer keyboard help. Press ? for control annotations, or open All commands for the searchable reference. Help follows the active game and settings.
  
• Better camera and controller behaviour. Camera movement keeps the cursor anchored to its level position across Classic, The Tribes and Chronicles, including Precision Zoom. An active controller speed boost resets before pause.
  
• More consistent Hot Seat and recovery. Checkpoints preserve the player, queue and turn. Handovers wait for Ready. Closing sequel hints restores the previous pause state, while interruptions retain pause.
  
• Rendering and audio improvements. Terrain caches, crowd limits and adaptive optional effects reduce repeated rendering work. Rewind has shared vinyl-backspin audio across the three native games, respecting pause, mute and volume.
  
• Music and save fixes. Manual shuffle follows the selected collection, including with the essential library installed. Matching profiles can recover newer shared progress and saved Hot Seat journeys. Interrupted Classic journey music can recover while gameplay remains paused.
  
• More presentation polish. Home uses scenery from installed levels. Chronicles uses its regional title artwork. Results have clearer grouping and award help, and bomb countdowns use crisp digits above the lemmings.
  
• Seven added languages, with expanded support for accented Western Latin text in the original bitmap fonts.
  

Resume a supported saved journey at the attempt itself, with the correct player and paused state.

Seven added languages

Alongside English, 2.0 includes Spanish (Latin America), German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål. The first time outside a single EU PS2 release this has been in Lemmings! The app follows your device preferred app language or region.

Current scope and known limits

Classic and The Tribes have Complete classifications and replayable routes for all levels. Chronicles and NeoLemmix remain Beta, but yet to meet an unbeatable level.

L2's golden-talisman ark ending remains unverified. Some Chronicles routes, engine behaviour and media are still under repair. Community solution coverage is incomplete, and some NeoLemmix levels need styles that are not bundled. Live cross-device synchronisation also remains unverified.

This is an unofficial fan project, with no affiliation with or endorsement from Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Download and get started

It supports iPhones and iPads with dynamic performance scaling. For Mac, you need an Apple silicon or Intel Mac running macOS 12.3 or later. Downloads are universal, Developer ID signed and notarised.

• New installation: the slim download is about 270 MB and includes essential music. You can add optional soundtrack libraries in the app.
  
• Existing installation: use Check for Updates. Automatic updates retain the full soundtrack. The signed update from 1.9.7 is about 3 MB.
  
• Full package: the full download includes the larger soundtrack collection and is about 2 GB.
  

For a fresh Mac installation, unzip the download and move Ultimate Lemmings.app to Applications.


Join the TestFlight beta for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPhone Duo)

Join the TestFlight beta for Apple TV (in review, coming soon)
Download Ultimate Lemmings 2.1.x for Mac and read the release notes
Project source and documentation

If you're new, start with Classic and try a learning journey. If you're returning, switch a favourite level to Macintosh (1-bit) and take a moment to enjoy those pixels.

I'd love to hear what you think, see your screenshots, and find out which level looks best in one bit. For bug reports, please include the game or pack, level, artwork mode and what happened. Thank you for playing!

Quote from: WillLem on October 12, 2026, 03:33:40 AMPerhaps Ultimate Lemmings should have its own board?

Any update on this? I am about to release 2.0 which is a HUGE update! Mac, iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Apple TV (!)

Oh no. I just discovered that the macintosh graphics also contains 1-bit graphics for the 9" Macintoshes. So guess what I naturally did...?

You prefer a forgotten gas station sausage to a sculpted column? Bold choice Cotton

Ultimate Lemmings 1.9.6 is out!

This update focuses on audio, pixel effects, performance and saved sessions. Here is what has changed since 1.9.4.

Audio and effects

• Smoother music playback. Recorded music now decodes in bounded queues, short loops blend their seams, and peak protection accounts for the effects mix. These changes address playback crackling and rough loop transitions.
  
• Rewind sounds like rewind. Music and sound effects scratch backwards through recent audio. Repeated rewinds reuse bounded buffers.
  
• Sharper explosions and clearer selection. Bombs scatter pixel debris and use bitmap countdown digits. Selection has a steady white outline and green halo. Dying, exiting and exploding lemmings no longer keep selection or rescue outlines.
  
• A short countdown before play. Fresh starts and retries use a 3–2–1 countdown. Modern effects also add brief sprite echoes during rewind.
  

Performance, saves and journeys

• Less repeated rendering work. Shared rendering budgets limit added-effects work. Terrain and skill-panel caches avoid converting unchanged bitmaps. Simulation keeps its original tick rate.
  
• Shared save and profile code. Profiles, records, recovery, playlists and Hot Seat now use the same core modules across Mac and iOS. Saved runs and handovers wait for the player to be ready.
  
• More consistent navigation. Profiles and result pages keep the primary action last in navigation order. Golden Path moves "Let's be careful out there" later in the journey while preserving saved visits and player ownership.
  

iPhone, iPad and profile sync — work in progress

The next private iOS 2.0 beta build is prepared, with clearer Hot Seat player identity, a more useful pause screen, shared stone controls and the full soundtrack collection. Build 13 has not yet been uploaded to TestFlight. It covers the Classic family and fan packs; Lemmings 2, Lemmings 3 and NeoLemmix are not playable in that build.

Further fixes let matching saved profiles recover their latest progress in testing builds, including Hot Seat progress. Those changes are not in the published 1.9.6 app. Live cross-device sync still needs device verification.

Download and update

Universal Mac app for Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 12.3 or later. Downloads are signed and notarised. The slim download includes essential music, with optional soundtrack libraries available separately. Automatic updates retain the full soundtrack.

The Tribes is Complete. Chronicles and NeoLemmix remain Beta (L3 now has 100% verified routes however!)

Download Ultimate Lemmings 1.9.6 — build 81

Existing users can use Check for Updates. I would welcome feedback on music loops, repeated rewind and saved Hot Seat sessions.

Quote from: WillLem on October 13, 2026, 05:59:31 AMNOTE: As a hi-res user, I feel particularly strongly about what happens here. Watching this space.

I am as well. Of course I feel strongly that the macintosh handcrafted 2x versions are better than any attempt at upscaling graphics, but I am keen to see where people land on this.

Quote from: spaceagemeats on October 13, 2026, 01:34:39 AMmy iPad is ready!

Just waiting for Apple approval and I'll sent a TestFlight link out. I specifically made iOS a 2.0 milestone because I wanted to NAIL down the full computer experience first and not get caught in the weeds of having to deal with multiple platforms at once. That said I am absolutely THRILLED at how well this game translates to touch devices. I knew it would work on iPad from playing that Cavemen clone back in the day (that sadly went away). But to play this on an iPhone in VERTICAL format and just have it be FUN is amazing to me. It's not only viable, it is a delight! Zooming in and out, the selection mechanics, every little QoL feature I added on top, the soundtracks. I can't wait for you all to try it out!

It has absolutely passed the girlfriend test, even with a wonky UI she was just as keen to Hot Seat on my phone out at her own birthday lunch! What an incredibly timeless game this truly is!