New or upcoming Mac games

[Homy]

Last summer Apple announced RE Village, No Man's Sky and Grid Legends coming to Apple Silicon. RE Village and Winters' Expansion with Shadows of Rose have been released exclusively on Mac App Store. https://www.residentevil.com/village/us/mac/

NMS for Mac and Grid Legends for Mac are coming this year.

This year Apple has kicked off its gaming event early and had a press show with some upcoming games for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Here are the games shown at the event: https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/17/apple-event-gaming-iphone-mac/

- Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Lego Starwars castaways
- Run Legends
- The Medium

The Medium coming to Mac has "very positive" reviews on Steam and uses UE4. Bloober Team has previously released Brawl, Layers of Fear and Observer on Mac but their last Mac game was Observer from 2017. They now make a comeback for "Apple Silicon Mac Lineup" after 6 years.

They plan a release this summer according to their tweet: https://twitter.com/TheMediumGame/status/1626237105042239490

Here is the trailer for Apple Silicon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2eat2tUis

Apple's new strategy seems to be sponsoring game devs financially? in exchange for exclusive titles on MAS, a similar path to Valve's solution to the lack of games on SteamOS. By helping developers like Capcom and Hello games financially? Apple helps to port new game engines to Mac which will be useful and cheaper for porting future titles. I think that’s a good solution and start, helping devs to port their engines and their first Mac game for exclusive titles on MAS.

It remains to see if such exclusive titles will come to Steam in the future.

In other news Crossover's new update 22.1 offers great news for me personally and others. Many old 32-bit games now work great. My favorite Bioshock Infinite which I barely could play on my iMac 2011 is one so now I can finish it on my M1 Max. Other 32-bit games now working great are Borderlands 1 and Calll of Duty 2.


https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jschmid/2023/02/14/presenting-crossover-221-the-hallmark-of-this-holiday

[at0m]

so hard to find worthwhile games that work with my mac

[Homy]

Don't forget to get Humankind for Mac for free on Epic Game Store:

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/humankind

Resident Evil games are on sale again on Mac App Store. Also Sniper Elite 4 Complete (same as Deluxe on Steam) costs only $25.

[Homy]

Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning for Mac is free on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/813540/Scheming_Through_The_Zombie_Apocalypse_The_Beginning/


Sniper Elite Complete Edition was released for Mac last month on Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sniper-elite-4/id6477828959


Wuthering Waves is coming to Mac on March 27:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wuthering-waves/id6475033368


Lies of P: Overture is coming to Mac this summer:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2848330/Lies_of_P_Overture/

Captain Blood will be released after 20 years and it's coming to Mac too:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040220/Captain_Blood/


Persist Online for Mac is looking for testers:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082980/Persist_Online/

https://www.persist.online


City of Springs is out for Mac:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1752780/City_of_Springs/

Some interesting games planned for Mac:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/860210/Return_to_Nangrim/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2312280/7_Days_Blood_Moons/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241390/HAUNTED_SPACE/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2745870/Warfare_Legacy_Collection/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/463140/Glory_Warrior__Lord_of_Darkness/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/563530/Insatia/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/931060/Tormentum_II/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2266890/BECROWNED/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403250/Armor_Attack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1411900/Mictlan_An_Ancient_Mythical_Tale/

"We’re excited to share a comprehensive update on the state of Unreal Engine on Apple platforms. Our goal is to achieve feature parity with Windows and provide a cohesive experience for users across all platforms."

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/bringing-unreal-engine-on-macos-up-to-feature-parity-with-windowsprogress-report


Palworld is getting crossplay, even on Mac:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1623730/view/541100079887417458

[The_Abortionator]

引用自 at0m：

so hard to find worthwhile games that work with my mac

Yeah Homy wants to pretend its perfect but there are serious issues trying to game on Mac these days.

[Homy]

Crossover 25 Mac is released with 25% discount until March 25.

CrossOver 25 ships with the following updates:

Wine 10.0, bringing with it over 5,000 changes that offer improvements to a variety of applications
Wine Mono 9.4.0
vkd3d 1.14
MoltenVK 1.2.10
D3DMetal 2.1

"Additionally, we are excited to announce that CrossOver now includes DXMT, which is a Metal-based implementation of D3D11 on macOS. It can be toggled on in the right sidebar under "Graphics." DXMT is now another option for running DirectX 11 games through CrossOver, in addition to wined3d, DXVK and D3DMetal. While DXMT offers a better experience for some games on all Macs, our QA team found that DXMT offers especially good performance benefits for lower spec Macs."

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2025/3/11/experience-next-level-gaming-on-mac-with-crossover-25

[cocanard]

There are a few promising demos released during steam next fest a few weeks ago which includes a mac port. Here are some of them :
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796470/HASTE_Broken_Worlds/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1275550/Arctic_Awakening/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2545880/HistoriCity_Florence/

[Homy]

Party Club for Mac is free on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2796010/Party_Club/

[Homy]

Resident Evil 3 Remake is released for Mac and all 5 games (2, 3, 4, 7 and Village) are on sale on Mac App Store. RE 3 has universal purchase meaning the same copy can be played on Mac/iPhone/iPad.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resident-evil-3/id1640630077

[Homy]

Cyan releases The Age of Rime for Myst Mac tomorrow.

https://cyan.com/2025/03/18/press-release-new-age-brings-additional-intrigue-to-2020-myst-remake/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255560/Myst/

[Homy]

Assassin's Creed Shadows is released for Mac on Mac App Store but the game is very demanding on all platforms since you can't turn ray tracing off completely.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/assassins-creed-shadows/id6497794841


League of Legends is switching to Metal from OpenGL.

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/patch-2025-s1-3-notes/

[Homy]

From Ubisoft team on Reddit:

Hello everyone and Happy Launch Day! 

We wanted to take some time to add some precision concerning the macOS version of Assassin's Creed Shadows. First, we are very proud to have been able to support macOS natively at launch. This version is not a port but a first class platform we are delivering to the players. We have worked very hard in collaboration with Apple to make it happen. 

Apple and Ubisoft have partnered together because we both believed that Apple Sillicon M-Series is powerful enough to run a game this one, where we put everything we could in terms of latest technology. Raytracing Illumination, Virtualized Geometry, SSLR, Strands-based Rendering for hair etc. Of course, the usage of those features depend greatly on the model you are playing on. 

As a reminder, you can find the spec sheet for the macOS version here, Question 14.

We intend, in further updates of the game, to provide more scalability to have better support for older but capable devices. Also, the game hasn't been tweak at launch to sustain 60 fps. This is something that we will have a look later as well.

We hope you will enjoy playing Assassin's Creed Shadows on Mac. Rest assured that it is well supported and that it will improve in the future.

[霄王]

tanks

[Homy]

Control Ultimate Edition is released for Mac on Mac App Store. With family sharing one copy can be played by up to six family members at the same time

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/control-ultimate-edition/id6502953520?mt=12

The Mac version will come to Steam too in the future.

https://x.com/ControlRemedy/status/1904828202712785180

[Homy]

引用自 霄王：

tanks

[Homy]

Wuthering Waves is out for Mac on Mac App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wuthering-waves/id6475033368