Can't find Mechabellum.exe on MacOS

[Rovenson]

Hi,
I just bought and downloaded the game on my (M1 Pro) Macbook, but I can't start it because it fails to find "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Mechabellum/Mechabellum.exe".

I looked into the path and did not find an executable in there, but two folders "game.app" and "game.exe". The only executable I could start manually was ".../Mechabellum/game.app/Contents/MacOS/Steel Warzone", which would however crash after the loading screen because it says that Steam isn't connected.

Help would be appreciated. :)

[Grand Admiral Prawn]

Same. Trying to run this on a M1 Macbook Pro. Encountered this same error. I'm going to try on my Windows desktop, as I assume the game will work there.

[Soulstrike]

MacOS isn't supported, thats why

Originally posted by Bearlike:

We are not supporting Mac OS on launch day as we don't even have one M1/M2 chipset Mac in our office. But we do hope to support more systems, we will see what we can do after launch.

Was said in another thread

[Rovenson]

Oh, weird that I could install it anyway without a warning. Bummer.
But thanks!

[TheRishka]

One actually can launch an offline version of the game. It would be an out-dated, weirdly texted game called.
On your Mac just open contents of the game, and you will find file name "game". Launch it with Rosetta (get info -> tick "launch with rosetta"), and the game will launch.

[MenOfWar]

was about the report the same thing. they should definitely then remove the ability to install the game in non supported systems like other games do

[torvon]

Please mark the game as not being available on mac — the universal standard on steam is that you cannot download a game on mac if you cannot play it. Makes no sense I can download and install if I cannot play .. the game also shows as "playable" under the mac tag in steam.

[neuromancer92]

So there's something odd here: the game's Store page doesn't have Mac requirements and isn't listed if you filter by MacOS when searching. However, the game itself comes up in the Mac-friendly tab of your library, and is listed as M1 compatible.

I don't know if the Library listing is something the developers can control, since their store page is set up correctly. If they can't though, I know that developers can change the M1 compatibility listing, so they could mark it incompatible to help at least some people.

[Sami]

Originally posted by TheRishka:

One actually can launch an offline version of the game. It would be an out-dated, weirdly texted game called.
On your Mac just open contents of the game, and you will find file name "game". Launch it with Rosetta (get info -> tick "launch with rosetta"), and the game will launch.

I tried this as well, really weird, different version of the game. I'd totally fine with running the game with Rosetta, if they only let me play a new and online version!

[stavrozinio]

what all guys above said ^

[ZimmaH]

hugely misleading to flag the game as "playable on MacOS" when it isn't

[Dahli]

its still available and installable on mac. How hard can that be to fix?!?

[Hyp3rSon1X]

There actually are files for Mac present in a MacOS Depot, however they are very outdated. Last updated on: 29 July 2022 – 10:14:37 UTC

Probably some test/prototype. That's probably the reason for Steam to show it as downloadable on Mac.

You can see the Depot and it's contents on SteamDB.