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Homy 18 Feb, 2023 @ 11:42am

New or upcoming Mac games

Last summer Apple announced RE Village, No Man's Sky and Grid Legends coming to Apple Silicon. RE Village and Winters' Expansion with Shadows of Rose have been released exclusively on Mac App Store. https://www.residentevil.com/village/us/mac/

NMS for Mac and Grid Legends for Mac are coming this year.

This year Apple has kicked off its gaming event early and had a press show with some upcoming games for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Here are the games shown at the event: https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/17/apple-event-gaming-iphone-mac/

- Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Lego Starwars castaways
- Run Legends
- The Medium

The Medium coming to Mac has "very positive" reviews on Steam and uses UE4. Bloober Team has previously released Brawl, Layers of Fear and Observer on Mac but their last Mac game was Observer from 2017. They now make a comeback for "Apple Silicon Mac Lineup" after 6 years.

They plan a release this summer according to their tweet: https://twitter.com/TheMediumGame/status/1626237105042239490

Here is the trailer for Apple Silicon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2eat2tUis

Apple's new strategy seems to be sponsoring game devs financially? in exchange for exclusive titles on MAS, a similar path to Valve's solution to the lack of games on SteamOS. By helping developers like Capcom and Hello games financially? Apple helps to port new game engines to Mac which will be useful and cheaper for porting future titles. I think that’s a good solution and start, helping devs to port their engines and their first Mac game for exclusive titles on MAS.

It remains to see if such exclusive titles will come to Steam in the future.

In other news Crossover's new update 22.1 offers great news for me personally and others. Many old 32-bit games now work great. My favorite Bioshock Infinite which I barely could play on my iMac 2011 is one so now I can finish it on my M1 Max. Other 32-bit games now working great are Borderlands 1 and Calll of Duty 2.

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jschmid/2023/02/14/presenting-crossover-221-the-hallmark-of-this-holiday

Last edited by Homy; 19 Apr @ 2:45am

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Homy 17 Jul @ 6:37am

Originally posted by gegyman:
Originally posted by Homy:

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition will be released in just 2 days on July 17th on Mac App Store, Steam, Epic Game Store and GOG.

Thank you very much for the information! ❤️

You're welcome! It's on sale now on GOG. Rest of the information that the fanatic Linux guy called "AI overload" is from the press release from CDPR.

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Homy 17 Jul @ 6:38am

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition Mac available now in all digital storefronts! On sale -53%!

GOG - On sale right now for $37.59
https://www.gog.com/en/game/cyberpunk_2077_ultimate_edition

Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/Cyberpunk_2077/

Epic
https://store.epicgames.com/sv/p/cyberpunk-2077

Mac App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cyberpunk-2077-ultimate/id6633429424?mt=12

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Homy 24 Jul @ 8:35am

Legion TD 2 for Mac is free on Epic.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/legion-td-2-a244b9

Last edited by Homy; 24 Jul @ 11:32am

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Homy 24 Jul @ 11:54am

Dead Island 2 Ultimate Edition for Mac is out on Steam, Epic and MAS. It's free if you've already got the PC version.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/934700/Dead_Island_2/
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dead-island-2--ultimate-edition?lang=en-US
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dead-island-2/id6504750779?mt=12

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Homy 29 Jul @ 8:36am

CrossOver Life Giveaway by Codeweavers!

https://www.codeweavers.com/100kgiveaway

"Open to folks 18+ in the U.S. and anywhere else that hasn’t banned joy. No purchase necessary, no blood oath required. Winners picked at random and notified by August 4, 2025. Enter before Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM CDT / 5:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM BST / 7:00 PM CEST / 10:00 AM PDT."

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Homy 30 Jul @ 9:47am

The Resident Evil series is on sale again on MAS until Aug 21th.

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Homy 1 Aug @ 8:02pm

GOG launches FreedomToBuy.games to "raise awareness on censorship in gaming" and they're giving away 13 games during 48 hours. 5 of them have Mac ports.

https://www.gog.com/pressroom/gog-and-game-publishers-launch-freedomtobuy-games-to-raise-awareness-on-censorship-in-gaming/

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Homy 2 Aug @ 9:05am

Dracomaton for Apple Silicon is free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457890/DRACOMATON/?curator_clanid=4777282

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Homy 7 Aug @ 9:53am

Road Redemption for Mac is free on Epic.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/road-redemption-ce16fb

Last edited by Homy; 7 Aug @ 9:53am

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Fanjit 12 Aug @ 9:19pm

Can I play all my steam games I used on windows on my Mac and if not how?

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The_Abortionator 14 Aug @ 3:15am

Originally posted by Fanjit:
Can I play all my steam games I used on windows on my Mac and if not how?

Straight up, no. You can't even play all Mac games on modern Macs.

You'll want to check your game library and any game that supports Macs older than M* models you'll want to google how others are fairing trying to play them. Same for Windows games.

And even for native games expect laptop performance but with better battery life.

As long as your games can run and thats your expectation you'll probably be fine, just don't listen to people trying to claim they out game PCs because they just simply don't.

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Homy 14 Aug @ 8:58am

Hidden Folks and Totally Reliable Delivery Service for Mac are free on Epic.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hidden-folks-239d16

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/totally-reliable-delivery-service

Last edited by Homy; 14 Aug @ 8:58am

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gegyman 14 Aug @ 11:16am

Originally posted by Fanjit:
Can I play all my steam games I used on windows on my Mac and if not how?

Google for Codeweaver Crossover

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Homy 14 Aug @ 9:38pm

Originally posted by Fanjit:
Can I play all my steam games I used on windows on my Mac and if not how?

Depends on what you mean by ”all my steam games” and which Mac you own. Which games do you play? Have you bought a new Apple Silicon Mac or an old Intel Mac? If you own a few games and they have Mac ports yes. If you own many games the chances of finding a Mac port is smaller. Not even Proton/Linux can run all Windows games so there will always be some games that don’t run.

Since only gegyman mentioned a solution for playing Windows games on Mac I add a longer list of some solutions.

1. Boot Camp for Intel Macs let’s you install and run Windows natively. It’s free but you may need a Windows 11 license. Windows 10 is free though to download though.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102622
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

2. Virtual Machines like Parallels and VMware Fusion Pro emulate Windows on Mac. Parallels has free trial, one-time purchase and yearly subscription. It doesn’t support DX12 though. VMware Fusion is free but it doesn’t support DX12 either.

3. Compatibility layers/apps like Game Porting Toolkit, Crossover, Wine, Whisky, Sikarugir (Kegworks), Porting Kit and PlayOnMac translate Windows API calls to macOS API calls with better performance. The best solution here is Crossover made by Codeweavers which is also the team behind Proton. Crossover has free trial, one-time purchase and yearly subscription. There are discount codes you can use or you can get huge discount on Black Friday or Cyber Monday for example. Crossover combines Apple’s GPTK and Wine for better compatibility. It supports DX12, D3DMetal, DXMT, DXVK and WineD3D.

Game Porting Toolkit is free but harder to setup. Whisky was a free application for easier setup of GPTK and Wine like Crossover but isn’t maintained anymore. It’s still usable though. People now use Kegworks which is free but requires more effort to set up. Porting Kit uses Wine with pre-configured wrappers to install Windows games on Mac. You install Porting Kit, find your game on their website and install the wrapper. It’s like Cross-ties in Crossover. PlayOnMac works in a similar way but people say it uses older Wine versions and has less compatibility.

4. Launchers like Heroic and Mythic are free and can import and install Windows games using GPTK and Wine. Mythic can connect to Epic and uses GPTK. Heroic is more advanced. It can download and use GPTK, Wine and older Crossover Wine versions. It can connect to Epic, GOG, Amazon Prime and now Steam.

5. Mac Source Ports is a site dedicated to old Mac games. It offers ports of the game engines made from the free source codes. If you own the game files you can get a universal binary for Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs.

6. Finally you can always use services like Geforce Now to stream/play Windows games on Mac.

Some useful compatibility databases are

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
https://macgamingdb.app/
https://doesitarm.com/

Last edited by Homy; 22 Aug @ 5:44am

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