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

[Homy]

Snowrunner is out for Mac on MAS and Steam with three years of content. On Steam it's on sale with 50% discount for $15. On MAS it costs $40. It's universal binary for Intel too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1465360/SnowRunner/

Has a free DLC too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585810/SnowRunner__Anniversary_DLC/

[Homy]

Grid Legends Deluxe Edition will be released on MAS on Dec 12.
https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/news/1182/

[halfberry35]

Homy a écrit :

I discovered that Gas Station Sim is now released for Mac with native support for Apple Silicon. Also Juno: New Origins is released and Disney Dreamlight Valley is out on Mac App Store only for M1. It has an empty Steam depot. Wonder if it's another exclusive deal Apple has made.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/870200/Juno_New_Origins/

Dont Believe the System requirements for GSS, I own that run smooth on my Mac Pro 2013. An will bet it run smooth on a Mac Pro 2010

[emberfrost8]

Apple appears to be investing in game developers financially to secure exclusive titles on the Mac App Store. This strategy mirrors Valve's approach to SteamOS. By helping developers bring their games to macOS, Apple aims to expand its gaming ecosystem and potentially lower the cost of porting future titles.

[Homy]

halfberry35 a écrit :

Homy a écrit :

I discovered that Gas Station Sim is now released for Mac with native support for Apple Silicon. Also Juno: New Origins is released and Disney Dreamlight Valley is out on Mac App Store only for M1. It has an empty Steam depot. Wonder if it's another exclusive deal Apple has made.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/870200/Juno_New_Origins/

Dont Believe the System requirements for GSS, I own that run smooth on my Mac Pro 2013. An will bet it run smooth on a Mac Pro 2010

Thanks for the report!

[Homy]

emberfrost8 a écrit :

Apple appears to be investing in game developers financially to secure exclusive titles on the Mac App Store. This strategy mirrors Valve's approach to SteamOS. By helping developers bring their games to macOS, Apple aims to expand its gaming ecosystem and potentially lower the cost of porting future titles.

[Homy]

A new flight sim for Apple Silicon: aerofly RC 10 - RC Flight Simulator

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2394350/aerofly_RC_10__RC_Flight_Simulator/
Demeo is also released for Apple Silicon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484280/Demeo/

[Homy]

The Lost Legend of Redwall: The Scout Anthology based on Brian Jacques' Redwall book series is coming to Mac. You play a mouse (instead of a cat in Stray). It appears to be their first Mac game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2169570/The_Lost_Legends_of_Redwall_The_Scout_Anthology/

Combat Master is a free alternative to CS 2 with very positive reviews and native port according to Steamdb. It's more popular than CoD: Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War that was released back in March and those have only Win version.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2281730/Combat_Master_Season_1/

Raw Metal has a demo.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2279600/Raw_Metal/

Stella Settlers will have a native port for AS.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2628570/Stellar_Settlers/

Time Handlers is a puzzle game and has a demo.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2448830/Time_Handlers/

[Homy]

Well, what do you know! Path of Exile 2 is coming to Mac after all. Path of Exile 2 will have a closed beta with start on June 7, 2024 for release in 2025. The system requirements on Steam for Mac and PC are just copy-and-paste from PoE 1 so it remains to see. The Mac Steam depot just say mac64 but it’s too early to see if it will be a native AS port or not.

https://pathofexile2.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2694490/Path_of_Exile_2/

[DeviantXS]

Stray is now available for Macs with Apple Silicon only.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332010/Stray/

[emberfrost8]

I've seen the video of the Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, and it looks promising. Here it is: https://youtu.be/954eMSj_5oc?si=0BGyipfovKFI1bCx
I hope the game is gonna be as good as the gameplay video I've seen.

[alexmaru]

emberfrost8 a écrit :

I've seen the video of the Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, and it looks promising. Here it is: https://youtu.be/954eMSj_5oc?si=0BGyipfovKFI1bCx
I hope the game is gonna be as good as the gameplay video I've seen.

its not for mac.

[emberfrost8]

Then, I should consider buying another gaming laptop. How much are they now?

[alexmaru]

emberfrost8 a écrit :

Then, I should consider buying another gaming laptop. How much are they now?

It wouldn't help, this call of duty is for iphone/ipad/android, touchscreen or joystics. No mouse and keyboard.

[Homy]

Bzzzt is a cool retro-future platformer, released recently that is getting very positive reviews from journalists and players. Said to be very addictive and one of the best. It uses Metal and has a Mac demo.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293170/Bzzzt/

Also two games announced at The Game Awards coming to Mac are Usual June from people behind Tunic and Night in the Woods, and Big Walk from people behind Untitled Goose Game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2702430/Usual_June/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478500/Big_Walk/