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This may seem like a pretty subjective category, and I'd like to preface this list by saying that it most definitely is. That being said, there are some games that are just empirically good — great graphics, fun to play, great story, whatever. And though some folks might have you believe that Macs aren't meant for gaming, there are actually a ton of awesome titles to choose from.
I'll try and leave out games that you can play on iPhone and iPad unless the Mac is the best place to play 'em. Here are the best games for Mac! Note: Make sure you double-check the system requirements for each game before you make a purchase. Firewatch, at its core, is a mystery game set in the Wyoming wilderness. You play as Henry, a man who decided to give the simpler life a try by joining a fire lookout team.
League of Legends is the world's most popular MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game, while Valve's Dota 2 is the most hardcore of the bunch – but Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm is the friendliest of that top trio, plus it stars loads of familiar characters from classic game.
Set in 1989, you watch for smoke during an especially hot, dry summer, aided via radio by your supervisor, Delilah. However, something draws you out of your tower and into the woods, where you must explore the unknown wild, making choices that could make or break your relationship with Delilah. This is a gorgeous game, with a beautifully crafted open world, true-to-life characters, and a story that changes, depending on the choices you make throughout your story.
Cissy Jones from the first season of The Walking Dead plays Delilah, and Henry is portrayed by Rich Sommer of Mad Men fame. If you're looking for more than just a game — an experience — then Firewatch should be at the top of your to-play list. What starts as a simple game of watching for forest fires becomes a strange, twisty-turny, mystery-filled rabbit hole with new discoveries at every turn. It's like a book you just can't put down. $19.99 - XCOM 2.
Set 20 years after, XCOM 2 continues the turn-based tactics franchise in style, with much of the same gameplay that you love from the first one. You'll once again play as the Commander, who, until the beginning of the game, was in alien stasis following Earth's surrender to the aliens.
Once rescued by Central Officer Bradford, you'll resurrect XCOM and go to town reclaiming Earth from the aliens, one turn at a time. If you love a good turn-based tactics game and you also love games like Halo or Mass Effect or even the first XCOM game for Mac, definitely check this one out. $49.99 - Life is Strange. This game may be a little old (like first generation Xbox old), but it's a classic and the fact that it's on the Mac is just wonderful. It's 4,000 years before the Galactic Empire and the Sith are just wiping out Jedi left right and central. So, of course, you're the last hope of the Jedi and you have to lead your brothers and sisters in arms in a last stand of sorts against the ultimate evil.
The cool part is you actually get to ultimately choose which side you want to be on, opting to conquer or save your fellow Jedi, using Force powers and sweet lightsaber moves all the way through. You get to customize your character and they change as the game goes on, depending on the choices you make and your style of play (kinda like the Fable series). If you love an action-packed romp around the cosmos and, of course, Star Wars, then definitely download this right now.
Keep in mind that it is an older game, but if you grew up with it like I did, it'll be a nostalgia-filled journey. $9.99 - Limbo.
In Limbo, you play as a nameless boy who's unsure of what happened to his sister, so you enter Limbo looking for her, A.K.A. The 'edge of hell'. As the boy, you must journey through Limbo, as you encounter only a few other human characters who either attack you, run away, or are dead.
You have to puzzle and platform your way to the end, and I'll be honest: It's rather unsettling. Like, really unsettling. There isn't much for a soundtrack, aside from nature sounds and physical sounds of running, jumping, and hits and such. If you're like a dark, creepy game, with a very open ending that's been hotly debated, then definitely check out Limbo. It's unlike anything you've ever played and the lack of a real narrative really gives it its atmosphere. (Watch out for that damn spider BLECH).
$9.99 - Braid. Braid is very similar to one of the most popular games of all time. Get into the actual gameplay, and you'll be like, 'THIS IS JUST SUPER MARIO', but then you'll sit back, listen to the AMAZING soundtrack, notice the little detail in Tim's hair while it flows in the wind when he runs, enjoy the beautiful scenery and interesting-looking enemies, and you'll be like, 'SUPER WHO?' In all seriousness, Braid is a lovely little game and it really emphasizes Tim's motives for rescuing the princess without ever saying exactly what they are or what exactly his 'mistake' was. Gameplay is quite simple; it's a Mario-style platformer, and you have to collect puzzle pieces along the way and slowly build a large puzzle in each world. If you like platformers and love games with out-of-this-world soundtracks, then check out Braid. $9.99 - Thomas Was Alone.
Believe it or not, playing a platformer as a faceless rectangle can actually be pretty fun. Of course, the right elements have to be there, like a killer soundtrack and, simply put, absolutely lovely narration by British radio a TV presenter Danny Wallace.
He tells the story of Thomas, a rectangle who is, you guessed it, alone. Thomas has to jump and slide his way through each level, entering a portal each time. Basically, all you can do is move right, left, and jump as you platform along, solving puzzles, and don't forget — the game's called Thomas Was Alone. This get significantly more interesting than you might think at the beginning. Get ready to feel stuff for shapes. Not even kidding.
$8.99 - Doom 3. What's there to be said? It's Doom — on the Mac. You're part of an elite marine division, sent to protect a Martian teleportation facility, and things are hunky dory until you're invaded by 100% evil aliens. So, you're going to have to walk down hallway after hallway, mowing down demonic aliens that can only be described as 'WTF'.
Doom is the classic first-person shooter and this 3D adventure only ups the ante, bringing you further into the world of monsters and insane weaponry. There's an online multiplayer element to this iteration, so replayability is definitely there. If you're into classic first-person shooters where gore and horror abound, then Doom 3 is your bag, baby.
$9.99 - Gone Home. Gone Home is a story exploration game where you examine objects and open drawers and doors to discover clues. You've been away for a year and come home thinking your family will be there to greet you, only to discover that the house is empty and you have no idea why.
Things may seem kind of creepy at first, and you'll uncover your sister's journal, complete with narration, as well as other objects from your childhood and things left behind. You likely won't expect the ending and you'll definitely feel all the feels throughout your journey, so be prepared for a lot of reading and an almost cinematic experience.
Gameplay is simple and barebones, but you like a good story exploration game, definitely check this one out, since it's pretty heavy on story. $19.99 - Sleeping Dogs. Crime never pays. I mean it does in terms of the money that gangs make from drugs and what have you, but it all comes back to bite them in the ass sooner or later. In Sleeping Dogs, you get to do the biting, playing as Hong Kong cop, Wei Shen, who's a streetwise badass martial artist, straddling the law and playing both sides to take down the city's biggest Triad gang.
If you enjoy open world games and have any love for the badassery of classic Hong Kong action movies, then Sleeping Dogs is right up your alley. You basically just get to go around kicking the crap out of criminals, while also playing the bad boy in some heavy undercover activity.
You'll have to live and learn as the game goes on, while honing your skills to survive twists and turns that are matters of life and death. If you're up for an exciting action/adventure full of violence and intrigue, you got it. $29.99 - Darkest Dungeon. Darkest Dungeon is a very involved roguelike dungeon crawl with fantastic art, and an interesting twist on the genre, centering on the stress of adventuring.
If your characters' stress levels get too high, you're gonna have a bad time. You'll fight wave after wave of all sorts of ghouls in turn-based combat, simply trying to keep your party alive and calm. This game isn't just about defeating monsters, but about defeating your party's personal demons as well. You'll have to chill out at taverns to keep everyone's stress in check, camp to deliver pep talks, and save the characters you love from all-too meaningful permadeath. Fans of Lovecraft will adore Darkest Dungeon for it's great horror and awesome hand-drawn art style that gives everything a gritty, visceral feel.
If you like scary-ass RPGs, then check it out. $24.99 - Heroes of the Storm. Heroes of the Storm is a MOBA game in teams of five fantasy characters battle against one another for supremacy in a series of different game modes. You'll have to destroy opposing team members, as well as their structures to gain points for your team and ultimately win the match. Many MOBA-style games have the same problem: one person can be a hero and win the game on their own, while screwing over the rest of their team. Not the case in Heroes of the Storm, where if one team member isn't up to snuff, the rest of the team feels it.
One team, one dream! Made by Blizzard, this is one of the best ARTS games around, with awesome characters, solid voice acting, great graphics, and necessary teamwork that doesn't make you want to drive your Magic Mouse through your 5K iMac screen. HotS is free to play, but you'll be stuck with the playable characters offered to you, which rotate every week. You can earn gold in the game, but to get anything decent will take a looooong time. Therefore, you can buy heroes, skins, and mounts in the game with USD. Otherwise, play for free and just enjoy.
Free, with in-app purchases - Portal 2. It doesn't matter which platform you're playing on, Portal 2 is hands-down one of the greatest video games of all time. It builds on the fun and weirdness of Portal from the Orange Box and throws you into a more fascinating story, with puzzles that never really feel like puzzles, since you're out of the testing chambers just trying to escape. You once again play as Chell (the voiceless captive with the sweet boots and 'stubborn will to live') who is once again trying to escape the Facility, which she totally ruined years earlier. Wheatley, a personality core voiced by Stephen Merchant, revives Chell to escape the Facility with him, but all is not as it seems.
This game is incredibly atmospheric, often creepy and weird, as well as gut-bustingly hilarious. You'll learn about the history of the ruined Facility, mainly from GLaDOS (in an unusual form) and voice recordings from Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson, voiced by the legend J.K. Simmons (the funniest part of the game).
Portal 2 also has a sweet multiplayer mode where you play as testing robots Peabody and Atlas, working with a partner to frustratingly solve testing chambers (you might lose friends over some of the more difficult levels). If you're at all into physics puzzles and hilarious, quirky games, then Portal 2 is not to be missed. Hell, even if you don't like puzzle games, play it. You'll be a better person for it. You can even. $19.99 - Rocket League. There really isn't much more to say except that's it's freakin' awesome.
Think of a physics-based FIFA with wild and crazy vehicles and full-frontal multiplayer mayhem. And if those aren't enough hype buzzwords then imagine yourself as a small child, forced to play soccer in order to 'build character'.
Now imagine that you're a child driving a monster truck around a massive enclosed arena, smacking giant balls around and flying and flipping around because physics. If you're kind of into multiplayer sports games, but prefer them with a side of absolutely wacky, then Rocket League is totally for you. $19.99 - Undertale. Undertale is for those of you who are just sick and tired of having to murder innocent, repulsive monsters. If you've ever thought 'why can't I just talk to the monster instead', then you should play Undertale. In this indie RPG, you play as a child who has fallen into the Underground, which is a large, isolated region beneath the Earth's surface, separated by a magical barrier. Along the way, you'll meet monsters and have to face them in mini bullet hell combat, where you can choose to spare them instead of killing them.
The choices you make affect the outcome of the game, including the story, dialogue, and the characters you meet, as you try and make your way back to the surface. Undertale was released to excellent critical praise, garnering Game of the Year nods from multiple gaming publications. If you love a good top-down RPG, with fantasy elements and the ability to be a pacifist, then Undertale is great for feeling the feels or kicking some serious hiney. $9.99 - Civilization V.
I have Civ V on this list instead of VI, but might add VI when the bugs are ironed out. Sid Meier's Civilization V has you ruling the world from the dawn of man all the way into the space age, where you will wage wars and conquer nations in the pursuit of progress and total domination. You'll also discover new technologies, strike treaties, and all that other diplomatic stuff that world leaders do. There is a multiplayer mode, though it is restricted to a LAN. If you're into amazing turn-based strategy games and love a good game of Risk, then Civ V is calling to you.
$29.99 - Myst. Originally released in 1993, Myst was recently revamped for the Mac, so that you can explore the open world of Myst Island and its Ages in a gloriously rebuilt environment. The world is completely interactive and you'll have to discover and solve puzzles in order to find books containing access to all of the Ages. The ending of the game changes depending on the choices you make, and you'll be torn between helping one of two brothers or their father, with your own fate entirely unknown until it's too late. Myst is an absolute classic and the graphics update puts a modern spin on it, bringing the Myst you grew up with into the 21st Century. If you love a classic puzzle game, a story filled with intrigue and twists, and open-world exploration games, then totally check out Myst. $17.99 - What do you play?
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25: Dragonsphere Developer: MicroProse Publisher: MicroProse During the peak of the LucasArts vs. Sierra adventure wars, Microprose decided to pluckily throw some games into the ring, and this one was a doozy. Dragonsphere was, and still is, a beautifully drawn adventure, in which you – as King Callash – must put aside your royal wealth and set off to prevent the evil wizard Sanwe from escaping his prison. It’s enormously detailed, with swathes of dialogue for the most minor of items on screen, and a pleasingly deep fantasy tale to explore.
Notes: Microprose also offered the adventuring world the extraordinarily named Rex Nebular And The Cosmic Gender Bender, as well as the far more boringly titled Return Of The Phantom. Where can I buy it: What else should I be playing if I like this: Get yourself Westwood’s Kyrandia series. 24: Police Quest III: The Kindred Developer: Sierra Online Publisher: Sierra Online The Police Quest games stood out in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s. Where adventure games were either about fairy tales or science fiction, Police Quest was defiantly straight-laced and serious. Procedural, even. And while it would eventually evolve into the SWAT license, in its point-and-click days it peaked with The Kindred. There are those who will pooh-pooh its inclusion, remembering how it would kill you if you filled in forms incorrectly, or how utterly bloody impossible it was to plot that pentagram of murder sites on the map, but no!
The tale of Sergeant Sonny Bonds, investigating the stabbing of his own wife and uncovering a Satanic cult, is a properly good time. It was a damn site better than all the bloody King’s Quest games everyone delusionally thinks were great, too. Notes: Police Quest writer and actual real-life policeman Jim Walls stormed off in a huff during development of The Kindred, which saw SWAT founder Daryl F. Gates taking over his role. Where can I buy it: What else should I be playing if I like this: Definitely look at the Gabriel Knight games. Read more: 23: Under A Killing Moon Developer: Access Software Publisher: US Gold Right, so picking a Tex Murphy game had to happen.
The FMV meets sci-fi meets pre-rendered monstrosities meets Chris Jones’s ultro-hamming were a saving grace of the 1990s car crash of FMV releases. But are you furious that it’s Under A Killing Moon, and not The Pandora Directive, or Overseer?
Don’t be mad – just write over the text on your monitor with a biro. This was the game in the series of noir-ish silliness that pulled me in, not just with its mystifying technical wizardry, but also a fun, deeply strange tale of norms vs.
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Mutants, and a doomsday plot from the Brotherhood Of Purity. Notes: FOUR CD-ROMS! That’s the modern equivalent of releasing your game on two Large Hadron Colliders. There were two Tex Murphy games previous to UAKM, but their plots were retconned and the whole series reinvented. Where can I buy it: What else should I be playing if I like this: Devour the whole series, as well as last year’s Tesla Effect. Read more: 22: Spycraft: The Great Game Developer: Activision Publisher: Activision There is admittedly not a lot of FMV in this list.
The format has not aged well, nor indeed was most of it any good in the first place. But Spycraft was something completely different, and it’s a proper shame how unknown it remains.
Playing for realism, you are a rookie spy, given materials to uncover a plot to assassinate the President of the United States (1996-style), engaging with the FBI and CIA as you do. Oh, and so much intrigue! It played like you were at your desk, analysing video and audio footage, using all sorts of tech and contraptions, and coo, it felt so involved. In fact, it still does, as you isolate particular pieces of background sound and run searches, build photo-IDs, and generally be an amazing hero spy person. Notes: Actual real-life spy people appear in the game, with former CIA director William Colby and former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin! Also, Charles Napier is in it, so BOOM. Where can I buy it: What else should I be playing if I like this: Bit of an outlier, but how about EXperience112.
21: Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Telltale ploughed their way through a lot of crap before they finally hit gold with Strong Bad. Two awful series of Sam & Max (woefully overrated by a confused press), the abandoned Bone episodes, and let us never forget their CSI games. But then along came the Brothers Chap, and suddenly their episodic format made sense. Using the characters from the now sadly mostly dead Homestar Runner site, the five episodes were co-written by the Chaps, along with – among others – adventure guru Mike Stemmle.
The result is a collection of truly hilarious adventure games that wholly capture the peculiar wit of the original Flash cartoons. For fans of H.R it was a wonderful surprise.
For fans of adventures, it was a moment of relief that Telltale really could do it. Episode 4 is the series highlight, but all are a great time. Notes: There is some hope for H.R. The site has updated twice in the last year, after a four year hiatus, and there is some possibility of more regular updates. Where can I buy it: What else should I be playing if I like this: There’s Telltale’s Tales Of Monkey Island, and their current Tales From The Borderlands.