Mac
Claybox
Play The Neverhood on your Mac, re-sculpted in HD
A free tribute for The Neverhood’s 30th anniversary. Drop in your own disc or ISO and play, with every background redrawn at twice the detail by AI running on your own Mac.
Free and open source, with no ads and nothing to unlock. You need your own original copy of The Neverhood. Requires a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 14 or later.
1996 — 2026 · Thirty years in clay
A thank-you to a game made by hand.
The Neverhood was built from clay, one frame at a time, and released on 30 October 1996. Thirty years later it still has no equal, but getting it to run on a modern Mac means emulators, settings and the Terminal.
Claybox takes all of that away. Drop in your disc, click Play, and you are back in the Neverhood. It is free, it is open source, and it is our way of saying thank you.
Three steps, no Terminal
Drop in your disc. Click Play.
1 · Add your game
Drop your original CD, or an ISO made from it, onto the Claybox window. Claybox checks that it is The Neverhood and copies the game to your Mac once, so you can put the disc away for good.
2 · Re-sculpt in HD
Claybox starts redrawing the game in HD on your Mac. You don’t have to wait: each scene turns HD as soon as it is ready.
3 · Play
Click Play. The game opens in a window or full screen, and your saved games are kept safely on your Mac.
HD, made on your Mac
The same clay, sharper than ever.
Claybox uses Real-ESRGAN, an AI upscaler, on your Mac’s own graphics chip. Nothing from the game is uploaded, and nothing is downloaded from anywhere. The HD versions are made from your copy, for you.
HD backgrounds
All 259 scenes, redrawn at twice the resolution. About 40 minutes on a recent Mac, once, and you can play while it works.
HD characters
Optional. The animated characters and objects are redrawn too, with smooth, soft edges that sit cleanly on the HD scenes.
HD videos
Optional. All 551 cutscenes, re-sculpted frame by frame. It takes a while and about 3 GB of space, so it is your choice.
Smooth picture
Anything not yet in HD is smoothed for a big screen. Prefer the original pixels? Turn it off.
Free and open
Nothing to buy, nothing to track.
Your own copy
Claybox includes nothing from the game. It plays the original Windows CD of The Neverhood that you own, or an ISO made from it.
Open source
Claybox is free software under the GNU GPL, built on ScummVM, the project that keeps classic adventure games alive. The full source code is public.
Private
No account, no analytics and no network connections while you play or upscale. Your game and your saves stay on your Mac.
Signed by Apple
Claybox is signed and notarized, so it opens without security warnings, the same as an app from the App Store.
Specifications
- Requires
- A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs are not supported
- You need
- Your own original copy of The Neverhood (Windows CD, 1996), or an ISO image of it
- Price
- Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- Space
- About 2 GB for the game and HD backgrounds, plus about 3 GB for HD videos
- Account required
- None
- Data collected
- None
- Engine
- ScummVM, with HD upscaling by Real-ESRGAN
- Licence
- GNU GPL v3, source code on GitHub
- Note
- A free fan tribute. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the creators or rights holders of The Neverhood