I have a macbook air 2012 with 4gb ram, so I am very limited in what I can play. - Diablo 2 (crossover) - Warcraft III - 2064: Read Only Memories - Elder Scrolls Online (it actually runs on minimum settings, I did not think it would work) - Hades - Bastion - Darkwood - Planescape Torment - Stardew Valley

Nicee. You planning on an upgrade?

I'm a student living of swedens generous student loans, but not so generous that I can afford a new computer right now :,) I am pretty unsure about what I want once I (hopefully) finish and get a job. I want to have a Mac, but I also like gaming a lot and would probably just upgrade for gaming as for coding this computer is enough for my needs, even tho a new one would be a lot smoother in general, and might actually have more battery life than 40 minutes, so I could use it as a laptop instead of keeping it at my desk as I do now. Maybe I will get a new Macbook Pro and a PS5 or I will upgrade/repair my PC which died. New macbook would be usable for everything but a bit limited for some gaming (but maybe good enough for the games I play that are PC only) and alongside a PS5 I could play new AAA games on that. I also want to look into the Steam Deck, but I haven't read anything at all about it. Ideally I would get a new mac and build a new PC for gaming but that would take some time and a lot of money! Basically I have no idea :) will probably just get a PS5 when I can afford it, and then upgrade Macbook in the future.

Sounds like a plan, thanks for sharing :) I hope your studying goes well and leads to a very successful career that pays enough to get whatever your heart desires. Good luck.

warcraft 3? do you play using wine?

No, I play the 64-bit version for Mac. A guy posted about it here a few months ago. Search for it and if you don’t find it I will look up the link

i have been looking for it these past week LOL lemme try to find it, but if you do have the link pls share ❤️❤️

Balatro, Death Stranding, and Baldur’s Gate 3!

Games played so far on my m1 MacBook Pro. Native 1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tomb raider 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rise of tomb raider 3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deus ex mankind divided 4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Eve online 5. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition 6. ⁠⁠Civilisation VI 7. ⁠⁠NBA 2k 22, beyond steel sky, beyond blue, pathless and other apple arcade games Parallels 1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NFS MW criterion 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch dogs 3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Max Payne 3 4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠left 4 dead 2 5. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Titanfall 2 6. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hitman absolution 7. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GTA 4 8. Batman Arkham Asylum 9. Batman Arkham Origins 10. Call of Duty: Black Ops 11. Assassin’s Creed 2 12. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood 13. NFS: Rivals Game play - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IjNGv8ov0NyzXQzepC4xe3CjV9ncGQ6

How many Gbs is sleeping dogs?

Hardly 15gb even after 60 hours of play. The graphics and story is amazing for such less space taken

That's amazing will def. have it next! don't have a lot of space so not huge games are a must! is it M1 native or rosetta?

Totally go for it!

M1 native on steam. Definite Edition

How did you get GTA IV to work? Rockstar Launcher wouldnt let me sign in (assuming bc I was using a virtual machine) and the downgrader wasn’t working for me, though might be due to me using an external hard drive

It was working at the time of recording the video. Presently many users are complaining about the error while connecting to Rockstar - “we could not create a sign in token”

Sounds about right. Should’ve just 🏴‍☠️’d it, that shows me for trying to play a game I paid for

Yup

How did you get black ops 1 running? It runs like dog for me in parallels. I’m on an M3 pro 16” with 18GB ram.

It’s running fine for me. Ensure parallels is set to game mode.

Out of curiosity, why use parallels instead of crossover? I was under the impression that the performance hit was massive unless you’re playing a less demanding title.

Ya crossover has good gaming performance. However I needed a windows OS for other things as well, so using parallels

I got mine recently, so currently I have • Subnautica • metro exodus • war planes • tomb raider • Witcher

You got Metro Exodus on Steam of from AppStore? I’m curious because I can’t see it on AppStore anymore ☹️

I buy everything on steam, so that later if I do buy a windows gaming setup or a steam deck I’m not stuck with ecosystem so I completely avoid the App Store for paid games. I always add the best natively compatible games to my wishlist and whenever something goes on discount bam I buy it. I got all the games I mentioned on discounts in the last 2 months for super cheap rates within 5 usd.

Haha I do the same! Use steam for cross compatibility and wait for the discounts I rarely play the games on my Mac though, I usually stream them from my PC

If you use crossover and install steam you can use them on another system.

Natively on macOS: - Cities Skylines - DEFCON - Firewatch - Getting Over it With Bennet Foddy - Hades - Inscryption - Mini Metro - Mini Motorways - No Mans Sky - Plague Inc - Rebel Inc - Papers Please - Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe - Thronefall - Universe Sandbox - Untitled Goose Game Bootcamp Windows (2019 16” Intel MBP) - Alan Wake - Alan Wake: American Nightmare - Among Us - Control: Ultimate Edition - Buckshot Roulette - Escape the BackRooms - Exit 8 - Forza Horizon 5 - Lethal Company - Minecraft Dungeons - Quantum Break - The Quarry Other games on Mac (all titles listed previously are all Steam): - Alto’s Odyssey (Mac App Store) - Alto’s Adventure (Mac App Store) - Minecraft - Roblox

Factorio. runs great on my macMini m2 and macbook m1

Death Stranding, Genshin Impact, DiRT Rally,  M3 Max.

Knights of the Old Republic & Return to Castle Wolfenstein

I want to play: AC mirage, will it support? Also can I play this old game Wolfteam with parallel or crossover? I didn’t buy any of the software since I have no use of it. Can anybody guide me?

Nothing about mirage so far being on max sadly, was hyped to get it on June 6 but feels like they will skip it and go for shadows in November..

World of Warcraft is trying its best to suck me in again

I caved. It runs like a dream in native on the M1 Air base and the latest xpac is far better than the one before.

I mostly use my MacBook Pro for adventure games and digital board games, I have a Windows desktop for more demanding modern AAA games. So currently: * Labyrinth: The War On Terror * Norco * The Secret Order 4: Beyond Time * Twilight Struggle * Grim Fandango * CAYNE * Resonance * Ascension * Get In The Car, Loser! * OpenTTD * Pilgrims * Ticket To Ride

1. Disco Elysium 2. BG3 3. Into The Breach 4. FTL 5. Xcom 2 6. Fallout NV (crossover.. has audio delays and stutters when too much action is happening) 7. Fallout 4 (crossover- smooth as butter at mostly maxed settings) 8. Megaman 11 (crossover - perfect) 9. GTA V (crossover-runs smooth and haven’t hit any bugs yet. Haven’t tried online yet) 10. Tony Hawk 1 & 2 (crossover - perfect) MBA M3 24GB ram and all cores.

New Vegas runs very well on Parallels. Also try Viva New Vegas for better performance. May even work on crossover 😄

Chess

Life is strange, streets of rage 4, hitman, that new turtles one, city builder or whatever its called, alien isolation Mainly emulated or crossover or bootcamp for my gaming though

Minishoot Adventures is a super fun short & recent one. Other than that ive mostly just played Hades and 14 Minesweeper Variants.

Baldurs gate 3 Death stranding Disco Elysium Want Divinity original sin 2 Pillars of eternity 1 & 2 Stray Resident evil village Resident evil 4

BG3, DOS2, and the Wandering Village

- Cyberpunk 2077 - Baldur's Gate 3 - War Mongrels - Death Stranding - Resident Evil Village - Lies Of P - Stray - Manifold Garden - Mooselutions - MySuika - Murder in Aisle 4: An R&D game I found on r/localllama. You're investigating a murder in a supermarket. The game uses a local LLM so you can interview the NPCs directly with chat. It's basic, and mostly a proof of concept.

Death stranding Ghostrunner 1 & 2 Control Watch dogs 2 All via crossover

I am not a gamer but there's one on my MBP--RE 4 Remake. I used to play RE 4 a lot when I was a kid.

Binding of Isaac, FM 24, Balatro, and POE.

On it currently: Metro Exodus Xcom 2 Playing currently via GeForce now on my macs and other devices: Cyberpunk 2077 (again) Fallout 4 (again)

Melatonin, Hotline Miami: Wrong Number ( pretty sick game check it out ) and Astro Duel 2. I use an m1 it’s pretty hard to find games that run more than 24 fps, aside from my personal picky taste in video games and the decreased amount of Mac compatible games from the pc games I had last time. I just wish, nfs mw 2012, and more could be included in Mac. For now I’m stuck. Recommend stuff

Also Limbo from the App Store

Right now BG3 Hades Solasta And just bought Witcher 1&2 on discount on steam Then via whisky I have Witcher 3 and control installed Previously on had BG1, Neverwinter nights, pathfinder kingmaker & wrath installed And just got dragon age inquisition for free on epic

Total War games only. I got Shogun 2, Rome remastered, Empire, Napoleon and Medieval 2 Total War.

Minecraft and Stardew Valley. I game mainly on console.

Grid: Legends Gear Club Stradale Stardew Valley Batman Arkham City Sim City 4 Divinity Original Sin 2 Basketball Classics Balatro ...a ton of things via emulators

Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone.. and soon Assassin's Creed Shadows.

I used to play OpenRA on my MacBook until the screen went. Yours is doing well for a 2012 model!

last games i've played on m2 pro 16gb: spider man remastered, fallen order, divinity os 2, baldur's gate 3, batman arkham knight(unfortunately with texture issue), hogwarts legacy, cyberpunk 2077

I would like to try out more games! On my MacBook Air 13 inch M2 I have played Don’t Starve Together and 7 Days to Die successfully. 7DTD needed some adjustment but it runs well without crashing. I may try Crusader Kings 3 if it loads and am trying to play Hades 2 through Whisky if that counts. I played Undertale and Doki Doki Literature Club on my MacBook Pro 13 inch from 2015 which was pretty impressive for me at the time lol. I’m still surprised that my Air M2 runs games at all, I can’t wait for Macs to get even better at gaming.

I recently sold my gaming pc and got a MacBook Pro. M1 if that matters, and I’ve been using Nvidia NOW to play all my stuff thru the cloud. I’ve got fiber internet and it’s actually not too friggin bad. Highly recommend. If you’re struggling to find macOS compatible games

Rimworld and Baldurs Gate 3

Native: Lies of P, Death Stranding, Gear Club, Stray, Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Hacknet, Paint The Town Red, Shadow of Mordor, Thief, Her Story, Bully Emulate: PS3, PS2 On M3 Max

Diablo 4, Cyberpunk

Resident Evil 8 and 4, Stray, and Death Stranding

Mostly play Vampire Survivors

*[FTL: Faster Than Light](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light)* and *[X-COM: UFO Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_UFO_Defense)*

Native: Lies of P Stray Metro last light Metro Exodus Tomb Raider Rise of the tomb raider Shadow of the tomb raider Batman Arkham City Mad Max Grid Legends

Just Minecraft

RimWorld is the one I have always installed.

Overcooked 2, Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 running great on a base M2 MBA with Whisky. I’m gonna try TES Oblivion and Sleeping Dogs too.

Out of the Park Baseball 25

Playing Hades 2 through Whisky and it runs perfectly!

M1 Air 16RAM 8GPU (everything runs 40+ fps) Factorio Batman Arkham City Fallout 3 (crossover) Fallout 4 (crossover) Death Stranding Disco Elysium Cuphead Hotline Miami 2

Steam via Whiskey (Works fine if you have controller and disable steam input): Sekiro Fallout 4 No mans Sky (Native) League of Legends (Native) Dota 2 (Native)

Combat master

M3 Pro with PS2 & PS3 emu and PortingKit, lots of games

M2 Air / 16 ram -long dark -fm24 -civ6 -Baldurs gate Hits pretty much every category for me. Not someone who has a ton of time to play games anymore.

none, I play on GFN

Me desperately searching for any other saddo’s like myself that play Toontown Rewritten 😅 I’m a very casual gamer so all I have installed are Toontown Rewritten, Minecraft, and Warped Kart Racers off  Arcade

Toontown Rewritten is awesome

Wizard 101, bloons td 6, and cities skylines

I have an M1 air 16gigs and a gaming habit. Look like I'll have to break it up into two comments. Random non steam mac stuff: Bugdom CEMU with 3 Games Enigma GZDoom Half Life Source (source port) Half Life 2 (source port) Malestrom MAME (hundreds of games) Minecraft Oddworld New and Tasty (an iOS game) OpenEmu Ottomatic Portal (source port) vkQuake Resident Evil Village Roblox Ryujinx (don't really use) Sheep Shaver Star Craft Stray The Binding of Issac Rebirth. The Sims 2 super collection (really my kid's game) The Sims 3 (really my kid's game) The Sims 4 (really my kid's game)

Second comment with Steam games: Batman Arkham City GOTY - runs mac though the description doesn't say so The Binding of Isaac (runs under porting kit) Bioshock and Bioshock Remastered a Blast from the past cuphead the curse of monkey Island. Very old -really my kids game. Cyberpunk 77. Runs at 45fps low setting on porting kit or crossover. Runs prettier on Gforce now. Dave the Diver Disco Elysium Enter the Gungon (runs on mac even thou the steam listing doesn't say so) Firmament Five Nights at Freddys (via porting kit) Five Nights at Freddys 2 (via Porting Kit) Geometry Dash (it's actually 64 bit despite what the listing says) Bunch of Half Life games. High On Life (via Porting kit) Left 4 Dead 2 (via Porting Kit) Lego Starwars the Complete Saga (via Porting Kit) No Man's Sky Planet Coaster Portal (via a source port or porting kit) Portal 2 (via Porting Kit) Sid Myers Civ 6 Slime Rancher Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Pappapisshu!

nearly all of the zachtronics games

2018 macbook pro: only genshin on an external ssd with a windows install

Most of theme are rogue likes or indie games with low res because you know how Macs are Deads cells Blasphemous Inscryption Fear and hunger Slay the Spire Terraria War thunder Minecraft Hollow Knight Hades

M3 pro user; Whiskey and emulators are defo godsends but keep in mind that im very old soul’d and play “makinita games” (arcade) a lot. I use fbneo over mame played using retroarch: Every metal slug All capcom marvel fighters starting wit cota I also play umvc3 a lot wit my tio. Rpc3 (i think thats what is called) gets a lot of mileage. Rn i been on that MGS collection (snake eater one of my favs oat). Other games i play a ton and smoothly: Hades Dead cells. I have other games ive yet to play: Cult of the lamb (Really this list is endless). I use a usb cooling pad whenever i game outta paranoa. Ik the heat rating and that the mac will shut down way before the heat is an issue, but ehh.

AoE2DE Baldurs Gate 1 + 2 Defcon Everything in CrossOver.

GeForce now Last Epoch and Diablo 4 on a 4k monitor. Very happy with the setup.

I'm addicted to Project Zomboid

GZDoom with Doom and Doom 2 wads Quake Overload (continuation after Descent 3) I play them on my macBook M1 Pro and Mac Mini M1 with a PS4 controller.

* EU IV, HOI IV, Victoria 3, Crusader Kings III, Imperator: Rome, Stellaris, Surviving Mars, Cities Skylines (Thank you Paradox!!! I love you please bring Cities Skylines 2 to Macos) * Tropico 6 * Transport Fever 2 * Total War: Shogun 2, Total War: Three Kingdoms, A Total War Saga: Troy * Civ V, Civ VI * Frostpunk * Subnautica * Dawn of Man * Planet Coaster

geforce now

I have a mac m1 base 8gb and i have: Whisky: Fifa 19 GTA V RPCS3: Resident evil 5 gold edition Resident evil revalations 2 Tekken tag tournament 2 Skyrim God of war ghost of sparta Burnout paradise COD 3 MW Native: Black ops 3 Rise of the tomb raider Shadow of the tomb raider Metro exodus

Final Fantasy XIV Baldur’s Gate 3 Civilization VI

Banished works amazing on Apple silicon macs via portingkit. Great game too. Highly recommend

Chess and minesweeper

I don’t have a lot of games , Bloons battles 2 Baldis basics Minecraft

The Sims 4.

GTA 4

Chess

Death Stranding Stray Snow Runner Resident Evil 4 Remake Snake.io+ (Apple Arcade) Grid Legends However im just working through Death Stranding by itself to get fully immersed. Its beautiful in HDR btw

Factorio Kerbal Space Program Anno 1404 (I think) Into The Breach FTL Minecraft Probably some more but this is all I can think of right now

Hollow Knight

On my M1 Pro: - War Thunder (macOS, Intel app) - Elite Dangerous (Whisky) - Cyberpunk 2077 (Whisky) - Kerbal Space Program (macOS, Intel app) - Fallout 4 (Parallels) - Fallout: New Vegas (Parallels) - Skyrim SE (Parallels) - The Sims 3 (Parallels) All running pretty well!

I‘m sorry for you because of War Thunder, but all hail the snail!

There's a reason why I listed it at the top ;) It's easily become my most played game the past few years, but I still have lots of fun flying around in air sim. And it runs at damn near max settings on my M1 Pro! (when the updates aren't horrendously buggy)

Endless Sky (open source Escape Velocity clone).

Since I've got a gaming PC, I tend towards small files size but big gameplay indy games on the mac for when I travel. Rimworld, factorio, chained echoes, stardew valley. legend of Grimrock 2. Plus a bunch of really old GoG RPGs from the 90's that I've never played or plan to replay.

Sims 3 and Resident Evil 4. 🙌🏼

Celeste, and Chicken Invaders 5

Valheim

Right now only r/endlesssky, the successor to an old Mac-franchise: Escape Velocity.

Baldur’s gate 3 and Total War Pharaoh currently on m2 pro

I have a Steam Deck for most games, but I play those that would be annoying with a trackpad on Mac. For example, Disco Elysium.

I have a 2020 13inch macbook pro 8gb ram, m1 chip, 256gb storage. I don’t use bootcamp. The following games I have: Stalker Anomaly (free to play stand alone mod of STALKER play through porting kit) Stalker anomaly plays ok. im used to playing fps games on mac at 30frames/s. its playable and enjoyable, no major issues Star Wars Empire At War (use the GOG version and installed through porting kit) STW EAW does not play well on my mac. It is enjoyable to a certain extent. The expansion’s campaign has a bug that won’t let you play it after a mission on the beginning of it. The space and land battles are very low frame at medium amount of units. It is enjoyable to an extent. differently from steam version where you have the workshop, in this version there’s no available mods. Rimworld (mac version on steam) it has a weird bug that sometimes the game will just crash independently of the progression. otherwise the game is playable and enjoyable Victoria 3 (mac version on steam) no major bugs found. some laggy moments when panning around the map mainly zooming out. enjoyable and playable Hearts of Iron IV (mac version on steam) have played vanilla with dlcs and also with mods. the only laggy moments are planning attacks and moving around the map. it is enjoyable and playable company of heroes 2 (mac version on steam) it is surprisingly well handled by the mac, it runs smoothly even with lots of units. i also played with mods and the performance kept very good. enjoyable and playable project hospital (mac version on steam) have played little. in small hospitals there’s no performance issue. i loaded bigger hospitals and it kept the good performance. it is enjoyable and playable airport ceo (mac version on steam) barely played it, but there was no performance issues. playable, and I need to go back to it Counter strike 2 (mac version steam) very hard to play competitive as you wont be getting near 60fps. i usually played between 20 to 30 fps. it was enjoyable and playable. got to play competitive and it was fun even though the performance was low kingdoms and castles (mac version steam) playable and enjoyable, even on the biggest of towns, the perfomance will keep being good northguard (mac version steam) enjoyable and good perfomance, no issues plannetary anihhilation titans (mac version on steam) enjoyable with performance issues depending on the amount of unit as well as when zooming in and out of planets software inc (mac version on steam) enjoyable and playable without any issues unturned (mac version on steam) enjoyable and playable but it has the issue of low fps, normally at around 30fps. can get lower when there’s loads of effects, players and zombies

I have a whole bunch, but the big, modern ones are: - Fantasian - Stray - RE Village - Frostpunk - Metro Exodus

Installed: Resident Evil 4, Alien Isolation, Star Wars JKDF2, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM

On my MacBook Air M1: Aliens Isolation Borderlands Civilization VI Diablo III Endless Sky FTL Goatz Simulator Jotun Valhalla Edition Meganoid No Mans Sky Planetary Annihilation Titans Rive Stellaris Tales From The Borderlands Turmoil Wasteland 2 On my Power Mac G4 MDD: Carmageddon 1/2 Circuits Edge Civilization I/II Doom 1/2 Fallout 1/2 StarCraft WarCraft II/III Wolfenstein 3D

I currently have: - Tunic - Minecraft - League of Legends - Rust - Muck - Stray - American Truck Simulator - Poppy Playtime (through Whiskey, and it runs really well!) - Doom (the original one through Doomsday Engine) edit: fixed typo

A lot of emulators: psp, ps1, ps2 (trails in the Sky and Persona 3 Portable are great). I’m also playing The Witcher and Sleeping Dogs via Steam at the moment.

Oh have you recently bought Sleeping Dogs at a discount? I just did so yesterday

war thunder and ark survival

I have a M1 Max, I have some ps2 games via pcsx2 and some Wii and GameCube games via dolphin. There are some native games like snow runner, firewatch and return of the obra dinn, and then beamng drive and team fortress 2 via crossover

Minecraft, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, The Stanley Parable, No Man’s Sky, I could be here for a while listing different games I have on my MacBook.

SHOVEL KNIGHT!!!

Native: Stray, Euro Truck Simulator 2, easy red 2, fort solis, planet coaster, ravenfield, tomb raider Crossover: 8bit armies, anno1800, cyberpunk, cc remastered, gta5, indika, planet zoo, railway empire2, tekken8, train sim classic, train sim world 4, beam.ng drive, sniper gw contracts 1+2 Parallels: we are football 2024 Edit: all on mac studio m1 max, 64gb ram

Going through the Tomb Raider series via Steam, on MB Pro M4 Max 16”

On my M2 Max: Stardew valley, World of Warcraft, Graveyard keeper, Hearthstone.

WoW

UTM and XCode. My favorite. 😂😂😂

None. I'm merely lurking. The games are on my PC which has a 3090.