Best mac games on Reddit

192 reviews from r/macgaming, r/gaming, r/Steam and 1 more subreddit

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#1

RimWorld

5.0
(6)
"Rimworld is a colony sim, one of my all time favorites."
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"Rimworld."
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"*Rimworld*! Incredibly addictive, deep replayability."
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"Rimworld or StardewValley"
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"Rimworld Rimworld Rimworld."
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"Rimworld Don’t Starve Together."
#2

Larian Studios

5.0
(6)
"My s/o and I finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 on two base M1 Airs after about 100h recently and had loads of fun."
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"Baldur’s Gate 3 or Slay the Spire would melt away the hours for me"
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"Baldur’s Gate 3"
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"Baldur’s Gate 3"
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"Baldurs Gate 3"
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"BG3 and death stranding could look great on wide screen"
#3

Hades

5.0
(5)
"Hades if ur using a controller."
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"Hades."
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"Hades."
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"Hades."
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"Didn’t see anyone say Hades so Hades. Such a fun game."
#4

Stardew Valley

5.0
(4)
"Stardew Valley"
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"Rimworld or StardewValley"
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"StarDew Valley"
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"Stardew Valley is kind of a treasure on every platform :P"
#5

Baldur's Gate

5.0
(4)
"BG3"
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"Baldurs Gate 1, 2 and 3 :-)"
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"CRPGs: * Baldure's Gate 3 * Divinity: Original Sin 2 * Wasteland 3 * Pathfinder: Kingmaker and DLSs * Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings"
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"There are a handful of awesome games. BG3 (you can get BG 1 and 2 off the App Store as well), Resident Evil 4 and Village, Stray, Fantasian, Beyond a Steel Sky, Lies of P. In Crossover: Elden Ring, Sekiro, Armored Core 6. I also like playing LiftOff for FPV racing."
#6

Civilization VI

4.8
(4)
"Don’t forget good ole Civilization VI. Plays as smoothly on all my M series as on my Steamtendo."
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"Steam has a Civ6 sale."
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"Civ 6! really makes the time go by."
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"For turn based, Civilization V and VI both work, as do games like Endless Legend and Endless Space."
#7

Civilization V

4.8
(4)
"Civ 5."
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"I've been enjoying Civilization V and Torchlight"
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"Civilization V (yeah, one of ours, but it's good!)"
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"For turn based, Civilization V and VI both work, as do games like Endless Legend and Endless Space."
#8

Stellaris

4.5
(4)
"Stellaris has got me through more long haul flights."
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"Main games I’m playing right now on a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro, all run fine in lower settings. All amazing games with tons of content and well developed for Mac."
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"Stellaris is a fun 4x."
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"Stellaris Total War Europa Universalis 4 You can probably guess what type of games I play."
#9

Cuphead

4.5
(4)
"- Cuphead (local co-op)"
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"A lot of people really like Cuphead."
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"Cuphead is cute but sadly very difficult if one of the players isn't much of a gamer (my wife wanted to play it so bad but she's having a hard time playing it) Streets of Rage 4 is really fun for us though. Rayman Origins is also good but 32-bit (we played it on our Windows bootcamp after I updated to Catalina)"
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"Cuphead"
#10

Steam

4.5
(4)
"Games that I recommend: Thief Simulator, Stardew Valley, House Flipper, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Youtubers Li"
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"I was trying to find ports and things to get games for the mac, but its just easier running windows + steam."
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"If so, that DEFINITELY ranks high. If not Gamersgate it. It's awesome."
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"I find the choice of Mac games at Steam to be a bit anemic."
#11

Baldur's Gate 3

4.3
(4)
"Baldurs Gate 3 is pretty awesome"
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"Baldur’s Gate 3."
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"Baldurs Gate 3, & Frostpunk have a good amount to play."
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"Baulders gate 3 is a good story game."
#12

Borderlands

4.3
(4)
"Borderlands series is cross platform."
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"Borderlands 2 & 3 in co-op mode, if she likes shooters."
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"Borderlands and if your kids are old enough there is creativerse which is kind of like Minecraft but free"
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"While steam does have a generous amount, the Mac app store has some games that steam only has available for pc, like Borderlands and Batman: Arkham."
#13

No Man's Sky

4.3
(4)
"I personally recommend No Man's Sky, Resident Evil Village."
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"No man's sky."
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"No man sky."
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"No Man's Sky, Lies of P, Grid Legends, Dead Cells, Borderlands, Death Stranding, Metro Exodus."
#14

FTL: Faster Than Light

5.0
(3)
"FTL is my goto flight game."
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"I recommend FTL, faster than Light."
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"FTL."
#15

Portal 2

5.0
(3)
"Portal 2, solve puzzles together!"
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"Portal 2 + HL2 definitely."
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"On Steam: Portal 1 & 2. (Best 'puzzle' games ever made)"
#16

Final Fantasy XIV

5.0
(3)
"If you are into mmo’s, ffxiv works really well on Mac."
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"For an MMO, Final Fantasy XIV is pretty fun."
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"Native on Mac I am playing Final Fantasy 14, and really enjoying it."
#17

Slay the Spire

5.0
(3)
"Slay the spire for sure."
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"Slay the spire."
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"Slay the Spire is something you may like."
#18

Borderlands 2

4.7
(3)
"Borderlands 2"
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"Borderlands 2 is a classic co op game."
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"Borderlands 2 + the Pre-Sequel, Arkham Asylum + City, Half Life/Portal series."
#19

World of Warcraft

4.7
(3)
"World of Warcraft, any version you prefer. Retail looks and runs great on M3."
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"World of Warcraft, DiabloIII, Factorio."
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"World of Warcraft, Diablo III, and depending on how it runs on M1 these days, Final Fantasy XIV."
#20

Left 4 Dead 2

4.7
(3)
"Left 4 dead 2."
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"- Left for Dead 2"
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"On Steam: Left for Dead 1 & 2 (Awesome zombie-shooters)"
#21

Don't Starve Together

4.3
(3)
"Don’t Starve Together The Last Of Us Papers, please I’m just making fun of the virus situation. I play a lot of Darkest Dungeon and Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Good time killers."
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"Don't Starve Together (creepy, not cute, but fun!)"
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"Don't starve toether might be a fun one"
#22

The Binding of Isaac

4.0
(3)
"The Binding of Isaac"
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"If you really want to stick with Steam though, which I advise for its awesome sales and definitely more games than the Mac app store, anything Valve is pretty good, as well as GTA, The Binding of Isaac."
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"The Binding of Isaac, the only downside is Steam Achievements are kind of broken on mac."
#23

Assassin's Creed

5.0
(2)
"I would recommend the following games: * Assassin's Creed"
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"Assassins creed is looong"
#24

Celeste

5.0
(2)
"Celeste https://mattmakesgames.itch.io/celeste"
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"Celeste definitely has to be on this list."
#25

Sports Interactive

5.0
(2)
"Football Manager Hexargy, it’s a deck builder, turn based Civ"
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"Football Manager….."
#26

ConcernedApe

5.0
(2)
"Stardew Valley. The most girlfriend friendly game there is"
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"Stardew Valley"
#27

Super Meat Boy

5.0
(2)
"Here are a few games that I've enjoyed (all available for Mac): Super Meat Boy."
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"Fucking Super Meat Boy, I have been seriously addicted to this game, platforming perfection."
#28

League of Legends

5.0
(2)
"League works on Catalina, used it 2 weeks ago. You just have to get the 64 bit installer. Try out CSGO, War thunder, and all of the other free Mac steam games. Another option is GeForce Now."
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"Time to break out League if Legends - free to play."
#29

Torchlight

5.0
(2)
"- Torchlight"
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"* Torchlight"
#30

Subnautica

5.0
(2)
"Subnautica is a great adventure game."
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"Subnautica."
#31

BioShock

5.0
(2)
"Bioshock is always a good place to start"
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"* Bioshock"
#32

GeForce Now

5.0
(2)
"GeForce Now has already been mentioned, but there are also Services like PSnow which contain a lot of PS4 exclusive games. Which are often masterpieces like The Last Of Us. If you are into story-driven games, then PlayStation exclusives are really enjoyable."
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"Nvidia Geforce Now"
#33

The Elder Scrolls Online

5.0
(2)
"Elder Scrolls Online, so immersive and beautiful with a shit ton of content."
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"Main games I’m playing right now on a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro, all run fine in lower settings. All amazing games with tons of content and well developed for Mac."
#34

Iron Gate Studio

5.0
(2)
"Valheim and Stranded Deep"
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"Try Valheim, I love it."
#35

The Walking Dead

5.0
(2)
"Definitely get The Walking Dead."
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"I'd definitely recommend The Walking Dead."
#36

Untitled Goose Game

4.5
(2)
"For playing together I'd recommend: - Untitled Goose Game"
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"Untitled Goose Game has same-screen coop."
#37

Portal

4.5
(2)
"On Steam: Portal 1 & 2. (Best 'puzzle' games ever made)"
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"I'd try Portal 2, it's cross platform. I've played that with a long distance friend, it's nothing crazy special imo, but playing it together with him ended up being pretty fun."
#38

Binding of Isaac

4.5
(2)
"- The Binding of Issac"
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"Binding of Isaac."
#39

Darkest Dungeon

4.5
(2)
"Darkest Dungeon."
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"Darkest Dungeon."
#40

Hollow Knight

4.5
(2)
"Hollow Knight or Nine Sols are awesome."
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"Hollow Knight, Tales from the Borderlands."
#41

Terraria

4.5
(2)
"Terraria, stardew valley Lightweight games that dont eat up battery! :)"
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"Terraria."
#42

The Witcher

4.5
(2)
"- The Witcher"
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"[witcher 1] just went on mac."
#43

Civilization

4.5
(2)
"Steam has a Civ6 sale. You can't go wrong with that. One more turn. The thing will be over before you know it."
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"Civilization."
#44

Team Cherry

4.5
(2)
"Hollow Knight"
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"Hollow knight is also an amazing experience."
#45

Firaxis Games

4.5
(2)
"XCOM 2 - War of the Chosen."
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"XCOM 2"
#46

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

4.5
(2)
"AoE 2 DE is my deserted island game."
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"Aoe2 Definitive edition runs pretty well on Whisky."
#47

Tomb Raider

4.5
(2)
"Tomb Raider games Borderlands games Half life games Firewatch Portal games Subnautica Hardcode (itch.io) Thief Bioshock games Amnesia SOMA etc"
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"Tomb Raider & Rise of the Tomb Raider"
#48

Civilization IV

4.5
(2)
"Civ IV - with the Fall From Heaven mod."
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"Civ 4 is available in the app store, and is relatively cheap."
#49

Crayon Physics

4.5
(2)
"[crayon physics](http://www.crayonphysics.com/)"
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"[crayon physics]"
#50

Fantasian

4.5
(2)
"Fantasian on Apple Arcade. One of the best JRPG games ever made. And it's apple exclusive."
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"If you like turnbased jrpgs look up fantasian on apple arcade."
#51

Xbox

4.5
(2)
"I use an Xbox X|S wireless controller and it works great."
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"I use Xbox controller and it works great."
#52

Isonzo

4.0
(2)
"Isonzo"
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"Isonzo"
#53

StarCraft

4.0
(2)
"However there are blizzard games such as Diablo/Starcraft/Warcraft III."
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"Blizzard games work well on Mac, so Starcraft is another strategy title you could check out."
#54

Ghost Town Games

4.0
(2)
"Overcooked 2 is great"
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"If you like fast and frantic games, Overcooked 2 is a good option!"
#55

Grand Theft Auto

4.0
(2)
"If you really want to stick with Steam though, which I advise for its awesome sales and definitely more games than the Mac app store, anything Valve is pretty good, as well as GTA, The Binding of Isaac."
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"The older grand theft autos all have Mac versions as well as all(I think?) source games"
#56

Wube Software

5.0
(1)
"Factorio."
#57

Creative Assembly

5.0
(1)
"Alien Isolation"
#58

Witcher 2

5.0
(1)
"If you're going to get either Witcher, get them from GOG.com. They're on sale there until January 3rd."
#59

Kojima Productions

5.0
(1)
"Death stranding is very good on wide-screen"
#60

Witcher 1

5.0
(1)
"If you're going to get either Witcher, get them from GOG.com. They're on sale there until January 3rd."
#61

Company of Heroes

5.0
(1)
"Company of heroes 2."
#62

ZA/UM

5.0
(1)
"Disco Elysium"
#63

Hearthstone

5.0
(1)
"Hearthstone. Starcraft 2. Both are free. Soma, Fez, Outlast, Salt & Sanctuary, Sundered, Slay the spire, Tomb raider games, steamworld dig 1+2, diablo 3, nuclear throne, xeno crisis, darkwood."
#64

Frostpunk

5.0
(1)
"Frostpunk 🥶"
#65

Paradox Interactive

5.0
(1)
"Heart of Iron (WWII strategy game) could easily kill 12-2000 hours."
#66

Hazelight Studios

5.0
(1)
"You can download “it takes two” via whisky."
#67

XCOM

5.0
(1)
"Great games I’m running on my base M1 MBA XCOM2 Sleeping Dogs Divinity Original Sin 2 Disco Elysium The binding of Isaac Slay the Spire Don’t starve Project Zomboid Want to try out Baldurs gate 3 but don’t know if 8 gigs of ram can handle it Also there’s company of heroes 2 in steam and Hades … great games"
#68

FTL

5.0
(1)
"FTL: Faster Than Light, Disco Elysium, Griftlands, Old School RuneScape, Borderlands 2"
#69

Factorio

5.0
(1)
"FACTORIO (also stack lands, oxygen not included)"
#70

Mojang Studios

5.0
(1)
"Minecraft?"
#71

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

5.0
(1)
"One amazing co-op game you could try is Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes."
#72

Diablo III

5.0
(1)
"Diablo 3 or Torchlight 2 if you like action rpgs."
#73

Bethesda

4.0
(1)
"Starfield and Palworld…little disclaimer, it’s through game pass ultimate but you can stream any game included through safari"
#74

BlueTwelve Studio

4.0
(1)
"Stray Its about 5-6hrs game play iirc"
#75

Asphalt

4.0
(1)
"1. Asphalt 9 - [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/asphalt-9-legends/id1491129197?mt=12](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/asphalt-9-legends/id1491129197?mt=12) 2. SpaceJet - [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-jet-war-galaxy-machines/id1054873402?mt=12](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/space-jet-war-galaxy-machines/id1054873402?mt=12) 3. Extreme Landings - [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/extreme-landings/id9"
#76

Edmund McMillen

4.0
(1)
"Binding of Isaac and Factorio"
#77

Insurgency

4.0
(1)
"Insurgency, not Sandstorm. It’s lovely, and run on CS engine (look decent tho!) = good flow on most computer. Super cheap on Steam atm!"
#78

Fallout

4.0
(1)
"Porting Kit + Fallout New vegas/Age of Empires II HD. I get frame rate issues, bugs in FNV but it's still fun. Age of Empires II runs fine."
#79

DreadXP

4.0
(1)
"Vampire survivors"
#80

Brogue

4.0
(1)
"Brogue Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Into The Breach Minecraft Boohu Unreal Tournament (99) Slay the Spire"
#81

Plague Inc

4.0
(1)
"Plague Inc ;)"
#82

A Hat in Time

4.0
(1)
"Hat in Time, although you'll have to run it through Crossover. They dropped Mac support a while back."
#83

Brace Yourself Games

4.0
(1)
"Crypt of the Necrodancer, Stray, Tunic"
#84

Humble Bundle

4.0
(1)
"Humble Indie Bundle 6 has just gone live."
#85

Oxygen Not Included

4.0
(1)
"Oxygen No Included, CK2, Infinifactory"
#86

The Talos Principle

4.0
(1)
"Talos Principle"
#87

Curse of Monkey Island

4.0
(1)
"If you’re looking for a change of pace, Curse of Monkey Island has a Mac version on GOG!"
#88

Plague Inc.

4.0
(1)
"Plague Inc. ...too soon ?"
#89

Songs of Syx

4.0
(1)
"Songs of Syx."
#90

Stadia

4.0
(1)
"Stadia is also a fantastic option."
#91

Karlson 3D

4.0
(1)
"I recommend karlson 3d, its an sort of early access fps/parkour game."
#92

Hello Games

4.0
(1)
"No man's sky. You'll need to fiddle with the settings a bit to make it run smooth."
#93

Monster Train

4.0
(1)
"Monster Train should keep you busy for a while!"
#94

OpenTTD

4.0
(1)
"OpenTTD or Northguard for me"
#95

8bitdo

4.0
(1)
"I play Steam games and I have a 8bitdo Pro 2 which very usefully has 4 different modes."
#96

Call of Duty

3.0
(1)
"I just took a subscription on geforce now. I like Call of Duty kinda games. I was hoping I could play the new COD Warzone, but no luck. Any advice for -sort of- realistic (MP) fps? I've been playing borderland on stadia, but not really my cup of tea I think."
#97

Vlambeer

3.0
(1)
"Free mac games? super crate box, spelunky."

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