Spec me some Mac games

Cyberangel11 · 1 Oct 2014 at 08:15

Please spec me some games for my Mac. It's a 2013 iMac 27". I've got WoW, Diablo 3 and COD. What other good games are there? Thanks.

danielanthony · 1 Oct 2014 at 15:00

altrewin · 1 Oct 2014 at 18:50

TF2, Borderlands 2, The Witcher (1+2), Half-Life, Portal & Counter-Strike series, Bioshock Infinite, Don't Starve, Trine 1+2, Garry's Mod, Starbound. Also check out the Humble Bundles, the majority of the games in them have Mac versions too

Super-Spy · 1 Oct 2014 at 19:05

What's a Mac game.

I thought it was PC for hardcore gamers and Macs for looking cool in Starbucks

kitkat9933 · 2 Oct 2014 at 08:41

If you really want to game on your iMac, Bootcamp it and play games that way? It's a waste playing games on OS X apart from the odd thing like Wow and the fps will be much lower.

Tunney · 2 Oct 2014 at 09:38

My biggest advice is to buy from Steam rather than the Mac App Store. Steam Play is a fantastic concept.

uniQ · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:00

Hearthstone, The Witcher 1 + 2. Also check gog.com

Akagi · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:06

Dual boot Windows. Suddenly... EVERYTHING

Super-Spy · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:37

Good call on Bootcamp (or I imagine Parallels).

What kind of graphical/FPS performance can you expect from a PC game running under Bootcamp ?

N19h7m4r3 · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:59

Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Bioshock Trilogy, All Valve games, Civ 5, Witcher Games, All Total War games, but ROME II, Wasteland 2, Divinity Original Sin, Shovel knight, Pier Solar, mcDroid, Verdun, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Hand of Fate, and Infinity Wars.

So many, but as others mentioned it's better to buy off Steam, GOG, Humble, and other places. As with the Mac App Store you Only get the Mac version and not Windows, and Linux also.

Super-Spy said:
Good call on Bootcamp (or I imagine Parallels).

What kind of graphical/FPS performance can you expect from a PC game running under Bootcamp ?

The exact same as you would under a normal PC with the same graphics card. Bootcamp is just a normal Windows partition, aka dual boot. Update the latest drivers and have a blast.

Parallels you should avoid like the plague, it's a VM with **** graphics performance.

Also with OS X 10.10 there is a massive boost in FPS for games that use OpenGL 4, Tomb Raider, and Hitman Absolution saw more than a double in minimum FPS with Yosemite Beta 2 and up.

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is also launching on OS X same day as Windows, and Civ: Beyond Earth is roughly 2 weeks after.

Akagi · 2 Oct 2014 at 14:11

What he said ^

Though Parallels is good for other things.

Super-Spy · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:25

N19h7m4r3 said:
Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Bioshock Trilogy, All Valve games, Civ 5, Witcher Games, All Total War games, but ROME II, Wasteland 2, Divinity Original Sin, Shovel knight, Pier Solar, mcDroid, Verdun, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Hand of Fate, and Infinity Wars.

So many, but as others mentioned it's better to buy off Steam, GOG, Humble, and other places. As with the Mac App Store you Only get the Mac version and not Windows, and Linux also.

The exact same as you would under a normal PC with the same graphics card. Bootcamp is just a normal Windows partition, aka dual boot. Update the latest drivers and have a blast.

Parallels you should avoid like the plague, it's a VM with **** graphics performance.

Also with OS X 10.10 there is a massive boost in FPS for games that use OpenGL 4, Tomb Raider, and Hitman Absolution saw more than a double in minimum FPS with Yosemite Beta 2 and up.

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is also launching on OS X same day as Windows, and Civ: Beyond Earth is roughly 2 weeks after.

Thanks, useful info