Games for Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

[monty.ivy]

I've been away for a while. I recently got Steam working on my new iMacPro. While looking around in the store too buy a new game, I saw that of the list of available games for Mac was further shortened due to compatibility with MacOS Catalina.

Further, I wasn't able to find a search option to weed out the incompatible games making it pretty hard to shop.

Has there been any discussion surrounding this? Does the community at large know what if anything is being done to correct the issue?

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[COSABI]

Same problem with EVE online... It keeps showing Vine: Up to date...

[ILS | Gam3rToxic]

cuando entras en la aplicacion de steam te vas a tienda y te sale el apartado de juegos ahi seleccionas mac y te salen todos los compatibles con mac

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[Eljah]

Same here. I gave up searching for games that are compatible for catalina. Such a shame Steam does not care for catalina-macuser.

[RassE]

broh

[yarramie]

I'm having issues with opening games here too, despite downloading the right steam for Catalina...

[76561199020462349]

asfsrh

[vogonp42.gif]

Just set up some kind of WIndows or Linux dual boot using an external drive. That is what I did with my Macbook Pro.

[yarramie]

yea... i fixed it. I think it was a 'the game' issue. I emailed the programers who made the game since apparently steam cant do anything about viridi.

also i dont have a linux and windows hates me so i dont have that either.

[EnchantedOatmeal]

The same thing happens every time that Apple updates its OS. The OS on iPhones, iOS 13.1 had an issue where you could not use your keyboard at all. When iOS 4 came out, it crashed people's phoens a lot. When MOuntian LIon came out, I remember having huge issues with running Microsoft programs (This was also the time Microsoft switched to subscription services) and I made the permanent switch to Pages and Numbers because of that.

With Catalina, the issues have been really big, most notable, getting rid of iPhoto and iTunes. I've been remoting into my mom's computer to convert her millions of photos to jpegs and moving them onto an external drive so when Apple inevitable changes their photo browser file formats again, I won't have to ******************** deal with it. (PS, mom if you're reading this, you should consider not taking photos of every little thing you see. You don't need that picture of that big mosquito bite you got eight years ago so I'm deleting it).

Issues include problems with running non Apple programs like Adobe Creative Cloud, some Microsoft Office products, hardware issues with mouse and keyboard conenctivity, and even instances of freezing up during install of the new OS. I am SOOOO sorry you already have Catalina, because every IT person worth their salt would tell you to wait six months for the bug patches before installing. And you can't go back because Apple has made that IMPOSSIBLE.

Now to the real issue at hand, Catalina does NOT support 32-bit programs, of which a lot of games are made. Excel is 32-bit out of the box (You can upgrade to 64 bit though) and works great on the newest Windows 10 update, but then again, Windows has a ton of faults (in the eyes of a Mac user). Steam isn't as good as Origin at letting players know if any games in their library aren't compatible with new OS's so users had no warning. A lot of games that were earlier in franchises were 32-bit and those versions will never be made into a 64-bit version. I'm willing to bet that only the most current number in a franchise will be updated for Catalina's 64-bit requirements, but that might take a few months. I don't believe Apple gave app developers enough time to get with the program when they decided on ending 32-bit support with the new OS. Also with the coronavirus going on, expect slower results, even if people are working from home.

Suggestion:
So now you know the entire backstory (imagine irritable grumbles here) here is my suggestion: When searching for games, see if you can narrow by tag, 64-bit. I haven't tried that myself, but it should yield you some results if Steam isa competent game launcher...which I don't think it is. Otherwise, when browsing for games, I'd reccommend searching for games made within the last year as the new industry standard has been 64-bit and if you want to broaden that search, you can go back 3-4 years for large game developing companies because they have more than likely updated their most recent games to 64-bit.

Hope this helps, and again, so sorry you're stuck with Catalina, pre-bug fixes.

[yarramie]

Originally posted by lzbthnndgls:

Suggestion:
So now you know the entire backstory (imagine irritable grumbles here) here is my suggestion: When searching for games, see if you can narrow by tag, 64-bit. I haven't tried that myself, but it should yield you some results if Steam isa competent game launcher...which I don't think it is. Otherwise, when browsing for games, I'd reccommend searching for games made within the last year as the new industry standard has been 64-bit and if you want to broaden that search, you can go back 3-4 years for large game developing companies because they have more than likely updated their most recent games to 64-bit.

Hope this helps, and again, so sorry you're stuck with Catalina, pre-bug fixes.

Thanks Mate :)

[шашлычок prime]

Originally posted by monty.ivy:

I've been away for a while. I recently got Steam working on my new iMacPro. While looking around in the store too buy a new game, I saw that of the list of available games for Mac was further shortened due to compatibility with MacOS Catalina.

Further, I wasn't able to find a search option to weed out the incompatible games making it pretty hard to shop.

Has there been any discussion surrounding this? Does the community at large know what if anything is being done to correct the issue?

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[Dexter]

MacOS usere here! :yay:

[76561199003709630]

cant run tf2 on mac since mac 32 bit update please valve add 64 bit

[Sam Look]

The issue is Steams filter is just awful! more than half the games flagged as unusable actually run just fine, but they give you no filter that will actually show you all your Mac games after you update. You can choose everything which gives you all your Windows games, or "Apple" which gives you only the tiny number of games Steam thinks will work, neither option is actually useful!!! Worse yet any game incorrectly flagged as 32 bit will show in the list as uninstalled even if it is installed, however if you click on it you can click play and it works perfectly.

Basically Steam took an unfortunate situation created by Apple and literally made it as bad as it possibly could and months later it still hasn't been dealt with, basically all round crappy service really!

You can switch to showing all apps, install each app and test it yourself, then flag the ones that work in a group for later reference, but it's god awful painful especially on a slower connection or device with limited storage.