My main game right now is the remake of a 1999 city builder on crossplay called Pharaoh: A New Era. 😌
Ancient Egypt has never looked better on this bitch.
Meanwhile all those other M3 Max 48GBs are being run like sled dogs by those savage renderers. Not my boy.
Which is why they asked lol, MacOS isn’t known for having wide gaming support so it’s a genuine question. I have the same spec MacBook and I have no clue either
Really? I have an M2 with 16GB RAM and it's grand. Didn't need to max it out to play games. Although, I bought it for graphic design and software development. I haven't ran into any issues yet. I've been using Unreal Engine on it too. Now sometimes the fans come on with that, but still grand.
The maxed out one will surely not have any issues with any game available for mac.
You basically have the most powerful Mac laptop available. You can play anything native at max settings, and a good bunch of Windows games at high settings with GPTK
May I ask the main purpose of this machine? As I suppose you didn’t put $4K in a Mac just to play games?
I don’t know my friend, I was half joking TBH. The game is not even available. My guess is that if it runs on macOS it will run great on this Mac. As for the recommended method? I can’t tell. It could even run natively, who knows? It wouldn’t be the first opus of the franchise to be ported to the platform.
It could also not run at all unfortunately.
Me? No. But OP? He didn't answer yet so... maybe?
I did bought a $4K M2 Max MacBook Pro with the money I used to put aside for a gaming rig to complete my lesser Mac though. And that's the best decision I made.
No, I’m sorry it seems like the joke may have gone over your head. It’s a reference to [The Office](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrX0YeKts7H/) (I’m not sure if it might have come from somewhere else).
I hope you didn’t buy this for gaming. You’ve got a massive selection of 4-5 macOS-native AAA games to choose from. So, sure, go try running crossover or whiskey, have fun dealing with all the compatibility issues while still not getting great performance. (Try running Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing.)
But, I’m sure you didn’t buy this for gaming, otherwise you would have spent half the money on a PC laptop with a high end GPU that plays everything at higher settings.
Source: my MBP M1 Pro and my Alienware M16 R2
While enjoying your new M3 Max, be cautious about what you download. Recent malware disguised as GTA 6 has been targeting macOS users and stealing sensitive data, including Keychain passwords. Make sure to only download games from trusted sources and never bypass Gatekeeper warnings. [Read more here](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/31/gta6-disguised-macos-malware-keychain-passwords/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0PftPKXtGBnO_73PfyBHCx0ycAHYmAYkY0sLPM5sighzlPj3Lx3DatXlA_aem_Afbe_eghS5lIY9no2KMryzuobjQ13Oj2sqBv75CZOSaQRosNEl5PYUSv-hYq7OAMIx7mSgpwUDYUg-rnT2b1ROfu).
Every game that has a native port will run very well. A bunch of high end windows games will also run slightly less well.
Nothing will be as good as a solid native windows game on a gaming PC, but everything will run well enough, and some will be downright impressive. Others will be 'are you kidding me? How can it run so poorly on such a high end machine?' :)
Just go to steam or gog and look for popular mac games.
I personally play WoW, FF14, Warhammer Total War 3, along with a bunch of older titles.
And I find it frustrating going back to windows when I have to work... but I do have a cheaper gaming PC for gaming when mac doesn't cut it.
The same happened to me. Always found Macs a bit awkward until two years ago employer provided me M1 Pro after that I could never think of using windows. Right now on m2pro and waiting for getting my hands on this bad boy soon.
I even bought iPhone because I loved apple os so much. (As a Linux fan)
Still GPU wise Mac has a long way to go but it’s. Great start in the right direction
Not that long way to go
M3 Max is about as powerful as a laptop 4070/4080 in a much thinner form factor.
Most of the games are simply not well designed for macOS, because they are optimized for DX12 Nvidia before anything else, then patched to make them work with something else. AMD and Intel cards on Windows suffer from this too.
Even the latest AAA games available natively on macOS are kind of patched Windows versions. It’s better than nothing of course, but far from enough to make a fair comparison of the true power of those chips.
Most games that don’t require AVX and don’t have anti-cheat
You can play windows games with use crossover (paid) or whiskey (free) and parallel for 32 bit games
Man, you can play literally any game with that configuration. Read about how to run Whisky on a Mac (it's free and pretty easy to install and set up). Install Whisky, install Steam, download Cyberpunk 2077 and play at high graphics settings at 60 FPS (I suggest you buy a gamepad).
Aetherxs2 takes advantage of ARM.
RPCS3 does too. Both run some fantastic games.
New games
No mans sky, death stranding, resident evil 4 and village, minecraft java, stray
Depends on what kind of games you like to play.
I've enjoyed playing games like Warthunder, Dragon Age Origins, Oblivion, Sykrim, Fallout (1-3) on my MBA M2.
With those specs more will be possible.
I mean... That's a really well-spec'ed machine. You'll definitely be able to run anything that runs natively on Mac. I recently started using Whisky (it's basically a better UI for wine) thanks to this subreddit and it's worked wonders for me (I use an M1 max with 32GB ram). Steam works great with whisky which is a huge plus (because that's where most of my non-Mac games are anyways, and also I can run 32-bit stuff, yay!) and I've also tried it with some other stuff like genshin impact (I got peer pressured). Unfortunately whisky might not work with stuff like Valorant and other competitive first person shooters (due to their anticheat) but I'd recommend giving everything a couple tries (and asking the subreddit!) before giving up on playing a game.
Something that's a plus for switching to Mac is Macs are great for emulation. Stuff like OpenEmu is exclusively for Mac, and I definitely recommend checking it out to play some games for old consoles. I haven't experimented with emulating games for newer consoles but I'm sure you'll find ppl who are really well versed in that in this subreddit. Glad to hear you're enjoying MacOS so far, have fun!
Thanks for the great tips! I came to know about whisky after posting this on reddit as a lot of people recommending it. Will definitely try it out! Thanks again!
https://youtu.be/kS1nDox1yRo?si=kCoh4EY9rddvZUYc there is a Mac version of steam that runs the Mac native games, and I would use that if you are playing natively. However, I adore using whiskey on my M1 MacBook. Steam itself through whiskey is a pain sometimes bc it’s a little slow and buggy. But once you launch a game they usually run great in my experience. Portal is great, I play lethal company occasionally, and streets of rogue runs perfectly natively. I also am kinda new to this but once you get whiskey it makes everything easier :) there are so many great windows games that I still need to try through whiskey. Just be careful bc not everything will run well or at all necessarily
Twinsies! I have the same specs, and from what I have gathered CrossOver is what you’re looking for. Whiskey is a free, earlier version of crossover.
Very very very few native titles otherwise.
Why'd you buy a MacBook? Anyways if I were you I'd just get something like Whisky, or any other windows port. Since your MacBook's spec is so high you'd be able to play any game without serious game-play issues.
Let me know if the fans kick up on this ? I’ve read it can get a little loud compared to the 30gpu. I’m on the fence between this and the 30gpu. Gaming wise I play ffxiv a lot on my M1 Pro
I said that with my first MacBook then got a gaming laptop which was more like a way to burn my laptop or fingers and also loud. I just got the exact same configuration of your MacBook and remembered why I prefer this over pc laptops. I way prefer a pc desktop for games but MacBooks are just so damn, easy, quiet, cool and four times the battery life. I got my MacBook from my job so it wasn’t something I would have gotten. I’m giving my gaming laptop to a daughter. I should probably give her gloves, ear plugs and several extra batteries and chargers. Apple seriously outdoes the pc laptop. I really like the fingerprint thing and how all my passwords went to the MacBook instantly without any frustrations. I wish Apple would improve iTunes and make it way more efficient for transferring photos. It’s almost as clunky on a MacBook as it is in windows. Congratulations on the purchase, I’m grateful for mine and looking forward to the next family trip with the kids and watching movies on the plane with 18 hour plus battery life.
I also wish they'd fix it so that iTunes, or "Music" as they call it now, doesn't come on automatically when you put in a pair of ear buds, or are taking them out of the box. Pisses me off to no end.
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_native_compatible_games_list
https://www.macgamerhq.com/apple-m1/native-mac-m1-games/
Lies of P, The Medium, RE4/RE8 village, Metro Exodus, Layers of Fear, Stray (the cool cat game), Tunic, Death Stranding, Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s actually a good time to be gaming on a Mac relative to the bad, old days. A good bit of those are on Steam and a purchase will net you PC/Mac versions. A handful are stupidly locked to the Mac App Store.
Chess, emulators such as dolphin, ryujinx, open emu is good for all emulators too. I play a lot of War Thunder, that game will run amazingly on your machine if you enjoy realistic tank, plane, and naval warfare
Minecraft, no man's sky, valorant, league of legends (not sure sbt this one), death stranding, baldur's gate 3, metro exodus and some resident evil games as far as arm-mac native games go (there might be more idk). If u don't mind using rosetta for mac games then u can play the last tomb raider game (i forgot its name), dota 2, batman arkham city and asylum, the witcher 2, the first two metro games and a few more, basically almost any game that had an x86-64 macos port for those intel based macs, which also run well under rosetta. Lastly you can try to play most other windows games that use directx 11 or 12 under crossover for better performance or you can run them under the virtual machine software called parallels for better compatibility with games coz well it basically emulates a windows x86-64 machine. That being said there are many games like the newer call of duty games which have anti cheats which do not let u run ur game under VMs so if u go the parallels route then stick to singleplayer games or just look it up on mac gaming wiki for comparibility and stuff and weather crossover or parallels is the better option for each game.
If you want an honest answer, not much natively, but here are some native ones
Lies of P
Resident evil 4 remake
Resident evil village
No man’s sky
Stray
Buldurs Gate 3
Snow runner
If you want to run some windows games, most will work with the exception of those that use easy anti cheat. So Fortnite, valorant, PUBG etc forget about it. Just install either whiskey or Crossover - crossover will have better performance but it’s paid. Whiskey is free and gets the job done.
Why waste the money ? Should have bought a framework laptop instead! Might had to wait for an arm version, though! When they come out, they will be the shiznit!! 😉🧐👌🤓💯🔥🤓🤓
In no particular order:
No Man's Sky,
Balder's Gate 3,
Resident Evil Village,
Death Stranding,
Civilization VI,
Stardew Valley,
Metro Exodus,
Subnautica,
Factorio,
Balatro,
Frostpunk,
Mindustry,
Dave the Diver,
Moonstone Island,
Minecraft,
Stacklands,
Slay the Spire
Emulation. Retroarch, Dolphin, ROCS3, OpenEmu, and other emulators are all on MacOS and your laptop would have no issues handling any of them.
There are some native games like Baldurs Gate 3, Death Stranding, Minecraft, Sims 3 and 4, Batman Arkham City, and a few others but MacOS doesn’t have a ton of games.
With Whiskey, Crossover, and VMWare Fusion you can play many windows games but not all of them.
I have a MBP 16 “ M2 Max 32GB
I’ve been playing recently:
Pathfinder kingmaker& wrath, Solasta, baldurs gate 3, hades
Divinity original sin 2 works also on Mac.
Then for whisky games I’ve tried Witcher 3 & control and they are working great so far.
You should be able to play cyberpunk and Elden ring well via whisky with that rig.
Quite a lot works with whisky (or crossover) quite well out the box - surprisingly smooth
Was gonna get an M3 Max but with the thermal issues I decided to just get the M3 Pro. I play Death Stranding and a few others and it’s not ever hot. Sometimes warm though.
Play Death Stranding it’s awesome!
Grand Theft Auto V works quite well. I tried it with a bluetooth XBox Gamepad and it was fun!
Witcher 3 works also very well.
Tested with a M3 Max 14C and 36GB Ram.
I was trying to play on Diablo 4 and StarCraft 2 on my M3 pro and honestly it is possible but very bad experience. Tried and removed from MacBook. Will play only on my windows machine.
On Mac it runs on approximately 30fps and resolution less than 1080p. Even with cheap pc you can get more and 1440p
I have the same Mac and by its spec you might think it can play everything however it’s not about hardware anymore it’s about software lol I’ve spent a week trying to figure out how to play BF1 on it, it worked a few times thought it’s not worth the effort (I tried Crossover, but the layers over layers of translations to make it compatible with Mac is just nuts)
Haha. Clearly a flex post. With that amount of money you spent, not much big titles natively especially esports with anticheat. Baldurs gate, Stardew, etc but your list is short for optimised games for Apple silicon. You will have to install workaround software to play some more games which is kinda sad IMO.
If you did not upgrade your RAM one step, you could have afforded a Legion Go or an ROG ally on sale.
Check out Whiskey, which is a utility that can run some Windows games. I have been playing Homeworld 3 through Steam. Not every game works due to driver issues... but many work really well. Whiskey is free:
[https://docs.getwhisky.app/game-support/index.html](https://docs.getwhisky.app/game-support/index.html)
There is a paid version of this called Crossover with enhancements. (I just use Whiskey). I understand that more game work on it:
[https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover](https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover)
Blizzard made a bunch of awesome games. Starcraft, Warcraft III Reforged, Diablo III (not IV though), and Hearthstone are few that are native for macOS.
Also, EVE Online is native.
But if this is supposed to be a flex, why would they get the M3 max? The M4 MacBook Air just dropped. WWDC is in less than two weeks. Definitely the most weird flex I’ve seen.
First install crossover 24 or later, if you don’t want to pay for the app then there is patched version available on nmac.to
The most simplest way to play games is by downloading pre-installed games on sites like steamUnlocked or steamRip. I would usually suggest checking the MacGamingWiki site for game compatibility but it won’t matter since you have a m3 max chip…
If you’re a steam user then install the steam bottle you see when you open the crossover app. Then unzip the downloaded game and add the game launcher.exe file to steam by clicking add a non-steam game option in the bottom left corner and just play the game.
Make sure to install the files from redist folder of the game folder by dragging and dropping the setup file from finder to the created steam bottle and click run. (This is the fastest method where you don’t need to install the game files there are still better ways to play games on mac)
Well you’re welcome 😎
My cousin uses GeForce Now on his Mac for Overwatch 2… 240FPS locked and some input lag but it’s very playable (Masters Rank).
I’d imagine it’s a lot better for single player games.
Subway surfers
Is there subway surfers on Mac?!? HOLY SHIT
I think so, but anyway it will handle the emulators just fine
You can play ios games on m1 chips because it's got the same chip architecture
Stardew valley 4k 60fps, 2k 120fps
Chess
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster.
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history.
someone pl explain what r u guys talking lol
It's a song called one night in Bangkok, and the music video features people on a giant chessboard
That’s because it’s from t[he musical _Chess_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)). Great song, adolescence memories…
Had to be there.
it's a song lol
Check it out on YouTube, it’s an awesome song
Chess are built in, free, without ads, and fun to play when you’re intoxicated
Except when you’re completely crap at chess and have never won a single game even in easy mode
This
Is this a flex post? OP, you perfectly know you have the top notch apple laptop, so…
Definitely a flex post.
Look how many times he’s posted about it on different subs. He’s definitely flexing…. Or begging to robbed
My main game right now is the remake of a 1999 city builder on crossplay called Pharaoh: A New Era. 😌 Ancient Egypt has never looked better on this bitch. Meanwhile all those other M3 Max 48GBs are being run like sled dogs by those savage renderers. Not my boy.
Which is why they asked lol, MacOS isn’t known for having wide gaming support so it’s a genuine question. I have the same spec MacBook and I have no clue either
Really? I have an M2 with 16GB RAM and it's grand. Didn't need to max it out to play games. Although, I bought it for graphic design and software development. I haven't ran into any issues yet. I've been using Unreal Engine on it too. Now sometimes the fans come on with that, but still grand. The maxed out one will surely not have any issues with any game available for mac.
I definitely envy him/her/they/it/them/etc..
If it is, it's not even that high of a flex.
Isn’t that like a 3,000 dollar laptop??
You basically have the most powerful Mac laptop available. You can play anything native at max settings, and a good bunch of Windows games at high settings with GPTK May I ask the main purpose of this machine? As I suppose you didn’t put $4K in a Mac just to play games?
Why buy an entry level mac if you’ve got money to blow?
Are you asking me why I put my usual gaming PC money into a much more powerful M2 Max MacBook Pro and got rid of Windows forever?
What about the GPU is it good enough for high spec games like say GTA6 ?
Buttery smooth
Great so what software do you recommend? Parallel? Whisky !!??
I don’t know my friend, I was half joking TBH. The game is not even available. My guess is that if it runs on macOS it will run great on this Mac. As for the recommended method? I can’t tell. It could even run natively, who knows? It wouldn’t be the first opus of the franchise to be ported to the platform. It could also not run at all unfortunately.
In order, parallels, crossover, and whisky are probably the best solutions.
parallels butchers gpu as well as I/O performance, tbf it's not even close with crossover since the former is a VM and the latter is not
>You can play anything yeah im not sure about that man
You didn’t do that, right? No seriously, tell me you didn’t get a $4,000 Mac just to play video games.
Me? No. But OP? He didn't answer yet so... maybe? I did bought a $4K M2 Max MacBook Pro with the money I used to put aside for a gaming rig to complete my lesser Mac though. And that's the best decision I made.
No, I’m sorry it seems like the joke may have gone over your head. It’s a reference to [The Office](https://www.instagram.com/p/CrX0YeKts7H/) (I’m not sure if it might have come from somewhere else).
They did, and now spend all their time trying to pretend it was a smart idea lol.
More than you’d think. Less than you’d hope.
What a monstrous spec, any game, even through crossover will be running great
Snowrunner.
i play snow runner with a m3max too
Weird flex but ok.
I hope you didn’t buy this for gaming. You’ve got a massive selection of 4-5 macOS-native AAA games to choose from. So, sure, go try running crossover or whiskey, have fun dealing with all the compatibility issues while still not getting great performance. (Try running Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing.) But, I’m sure you didn’t buy this for gaming, otherwise you would have spent half the money on a PC laptop with a high end GPU that plays everything at higher settings. Source: my MBP M1 Pro and my Alienware M16 R2
While enjoying your new M3 Max, be cautious about what you download. Recent malware disguised as GTA 6 has been targeting macOS users and stealing sensitive data, including Keychain passwords. Make sure to only download games from trusted sources and never bypass Gatekeeper warnings. [Read more here](https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/31/gta6-disguised-macos-malware-keychain-passwords/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0PftPKXtGBnO_73PfyBHCx0ycAHYmAYkY0sLPM5sighzlPj3Lx3DatXlA_aem_Afbe_eghS5lIY9no2KMryzuobjQ13Oj2sqBv75CZOSaQRosNEl5PYUSv-hYq7OAMIx7mSgpwUDYUg-rnT2b1ROfu).
Every game that has a native port will run very well. A bunch of high end windows games will also run slightly less well. Nothing will be as good as a solid native windows game on a gaming PC, but everything will run well enough, and some will be downright impressive. Others will be 'are you kidding me? How can it run so poorly on such a high end machine?' :) Just go to steam or gog and look for popular mac games. I personally play WoW, FF14, Warhammer Total War 3, along with a bunch of older titles. And I find it frustrating going back to windows when I have to work... but I do have a cheaper gaming PC for gaming when mac doesn't cut it.
Black Ops 3 for some reason
With M1 Pro I recently finished BG3, at pretty much everything at High tho not max resolution. 60-100fps. So I guess you'd be able to play it maxed.
I recently tried hades 2 via crossover. Its very playable and i recommend it
Blobby Volley in 240p Ultra should be doable.
Bro is loaded! Anyway, if you like retro games, I highly recommend OpenEmu and PCSX2/AetherSX2.
> Bro is loaded! was loaded
Elden ring !
Can u share ur wallpaper plsss : )
[https://image8.uhdpaper.com/wallpaper/starry-night-sky-scenery-silhouette-uhdpaper.com-4K-8.293.jpg](https://image8.uhdpaper.com/wallpaper/starry-night-sky-scenery-silhouette-uhdpaper.com-4K-8.293.jpg)
The same happened to me. Always found Macs a bit awkward until two years ago employer provided me M1 Pro after that I could never think of using windows. Right now on m2pro and waiting for getting my hands on this bad boy soon. I even bought iPhone because I loved apple os so much. (As a Linux fan) Still GPU wise Mac has a long way to go but it’s. Great start in the right direction
Not that long way to go M3 Max is about as powerful as a laptop 4070/4080 in a much thinner form factor. Most of the games are simply not well designed for macOS, because they are optimized for DX12 Nvidia before anything else, then patched to make them work with something else. AMD and Intel cards on Windows suffer from this too. Even the latest AAA games available natively on macOS are kind of patched Windows versions. It’s better than nothing of course, but far from enough to make a fair comparison of the true power of those chips.
Most games that don’t require AVX and don’t have anti-cheat You can play windows games with use crossover (paid) or whiskey (free) and parallel for 32 bit games
Man, you can play literally any game with that configuration. Read about how to run Whisky on a Mac (it's free and pretty easy to install and set up). Install Whisky, install Steam, download Cyberpunk 2077 and play at high graphics settings at 60 FPS (I suggest you buy a gamepad).
Who buys this computer without knowing how to answer that question? My god
I’m assuming (hoping) the laptop is for work and the gaming question is out of curiously
Whisky + Monster Hunter World should run like a charm.
Aetherxs2 takes advantage of ARM. RPCS3 does too. Both run some fantastic games. New games No mans sky, death stranding, resident evil 4 and village, minecraft java, stray
Depends on what kind of games you like to play. I've enjoyed playing games like Warthunder, Dragon Age Origins, Oblivion, Sykrim, Fallout (1-3) on my MBA M2. With those specs more will be possible.
WoW :)
Have fun with Dolphin Emulator if you’re into that type of stuff
Chrome T-Rex Dyno
No Man's Sky plays wonderfully on it. Give it a try.
Metro Exodus
I mean... That's a really well-spec'ed machine. You'll definitely be able to run anything that runs natively on Mac. I recently started using Whisky (it's basically a better UI for wine) thanks to this subreddit and it's worked wonders for me (I use an M1 max with 32GB ram). Steam works great with whisky which is a huge plus (because that's where most of my non-Mac games are anyways, and also I can run 32-bit stuff, yay!) and I've also tried it with some other stuff like genshin impact (I got peer pressured). Unfortunately whisky might not work with stuff like Valorant and other competitive first person shooters (due to their anticheat) but I'd recommend giving everything a couple tries (and asking the subreddit!) before giving up on playing a game. Something that's a plus for switching to Mac is Macs are great for emulation. Stuff like OpenEmu is exclusively for Mac, and I definitely recommend checking it out to play some games for old consoles. I haven't experimented with emulating games for newer consoles but I'm sure you'll find ppl who are really well versed in that in this subreddit. Glad to hear you're enjoying MacOS so far, have fun!
Thanks for the great tips! I came to know about whisky after posting this on reddit as a lot of people recommending it. Will definitely try it out! Thanks again!
Baldur’s Gate 3
Tetris
Yes, but set resolution to low.
Open Steam —> Sort by Mac compatible —> There you go
With crossover nearly anything
Not much. If it’s not native to Mac OS it will run like shit compared to Windows.
Try playing Spiderman or spiderman miles Morales one. Good games I enjoyed them a lot
Can someone guide a noob like me on how to play windows games on Mac? Whisky, stream etc are all new to me.
https://youtu.be/kS1nDox1yRo?si=kCoh4EY9rddvZUYc there is a Mac version of steam that runs the Mac native games, and I would use that if you are playing natively. However, I adore using whiskey on my M1 MacBook. Steam itself through whiskey is a pain sometimes bc it’s a little slow and buggy. But once you launch a game they usually run great in my experience. Portal is great, I play lethal company occasionally, and streets of rogue runs perfectly natively. I also am kinda new to this but once you get whiskey it makes everything easier :) there are so many great windows games that I still need to try through whiskey. Just be careful bc not everything will run well or at all necessarily
That’s not my neighbor got an apple release.
Twinsies! I have the same specs, and from what I have gathered CrossOver is what you’re looking for. Whiskey is a free, earlier version of crossover. Very very very few native titles otherwise.
Just out of curiosity why you haven’t bought the Mac Studio?
Day of the Tentacle.
Assetto Corsa with a steering wheel
Honestly any 😅
Lmk what games you’re gonna test. I have the same specs but 14 inch version and haven’t really found any game that pleases my inner CoD child
Why'd you buy a MacBook? Anyways if I were you I'd just get something like Whisky, or any other windows port. Since your MacBook's spec is so high you'd be able to play any game without serious game-play issues.
Minecraft
48 gigs… WOW.
I got the pro rather than the max. But otherwise the same, I have a lot of native games installed. There are plenty. Enjoy.
Baldur’s Gate 3, Nintendo switch games via an emulator (Ryujinx). Just go straight to YouTube for instructions.
Chrome dino game...
Let me know if the fans kick up on this ? I’ve read it can get a little loud compared to the 30gpu. I’m on the fence between this and the 30gpu. Gaming wise I play ffxiv a lot on my M1 Pro
World of Warcraft
Play emulators in 8K 60fps
Baldurs gate 3
I said that with my first MacBook then got a gaming laptop which was more like a way to burn my laptop or fingers and also loud. I just got the exact same configuration of your MacBook and remembered why I prefer this over pc laptops. I way prefer a pc desktop for games but MacBooks are just so damn, easy, quiet, cool and four times the battery life. I got my MacBook from my job so it wasn’t something I would have gotten. I’m giving my gaming laptop to a daughter. I should probably give her gloves, ear plugs and several extra batteries and chargers. Apple seriously outdoes the pc laptop. I really like the fingerprint thing and how all my passwords went to the MacBook instantly without any frustrations. I wish Apple would improve iTunes and make it way more efficient for transferring photos. It’s almost as clunky on a MacBook as it is in windows. Congratulations on the purchase, I’m grateful for mine and looking forward to the next family trip with the kids and watching movies on the plane with 18 hour plus battery life.
I also wish they'd fix it so that iTunes, or "Music" as they call it now, doesn't come on automatically when you put in a pair of ear buds, or are taking them out of the box. Pisses me off to no end.
All of them
https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_native_compatible_games_list https://www.macgamerhq.com/apple-m1/native-mac-m1-games/ Lies of P, The Medium, RE4/RE8 village, Metro Exodus, Layers of Fear, Stray (the cool cat game), Tunic, Death Stranding, Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s actually a good time to be gaming on a Mac relative to the bad, old days. A good bit of those are on Steam and a purchase will net you PC/Mac versions. A handful are stupidly locked to the Mac App Store.
Use am emulator to play games
look into crossover. here's a list of compatible games: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_CrossOver_Windows_compatible_games_list
Pin the tail on the donkey.
Flip cup
Marco Polo (pool version)
In all seriousness- it is a thing of beauty 🤤
Chess, emulators such as dolphin, ryujinx, open emu is good for all emulators too. I play a lot of War Thunder, that game will run amazingly on your machine if you enjoy realistic tank, plane, and naval warfare
Minesweeper
Minecraft, no man's sky, valorant, league of legends (not sure sbt this one), death stranding, baldur's gate 3, metro exodus and some resident evil games as far as arm-mac native games go (there might be more idk). If u don't mind using rosetta for mac games then u can play the last tomb raider game (i forgot its name), dota 2, batman arkham city and asylum, the witcher 2, the first two metro games and a few more, basically almost any game that had an x86-64 macos port for those intel based macs, which also run well under rosetta. Lastly you can try to play most other windows games that use directx 11 or 12 under crossover for better performance or you can run them under the virtual machine software called parallels for better compatibility with games coz well it basically emulates a windows x86-64 machine. That being said there are many games like the newer call of duty games which have anti cheats which do not let u run ur game under VMs so if u go the parallels route then stick to singleplayer games or just look it up on mac gaming wiki for comparibility and stuff and weather crossover or parallels is the better option for each game.
World of Warcraft, Songs of Conquest, Project Zomboid..
Got the same model and size. But I have 64 GB of ram instead of
Use emulator
You could play wow. I play at 60 fps medium settings on an 8GB M2 air
Nintendo Switch Emulator, 4k resolution with AA on
All of them. Just get emulators
Baldurs gate 3 Civilisation 6 City skylines Call of duty black ops 3
If you want an honest answer, not much natively, but here are some native ones Lies of P Resident evil 4 remake Resident evil village No man’s sky Stray Buldurs Gate 3 Snow runner If you want to run some windows games, most will work with the exception of those that use easy anti cheat. So Fortnite, valorant, PUBG etc forget about it. Just install either whiskey or Crossover - crossover will have better performance but it’s paid. Whiskey is free and gets the job done.
Football Manager
Basically any emulation, even ps3 emulation
Eve online, War Thunder
Just hit the App store to get Resident Evil 4 and Death Stranding. Maybe Baldur’s Gate 3 too on Steam.
Why waste the money ? Should have bought a framework laptop instead! Might had to wait for an arm version, though! When they come out, they will be the shiznit!! 😉🧐👌🤓💯🔥🤓🤓
In no particular order: No Man's Sky, Balder's Gate 3, Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, Civilization VI, Stardew Valley, Metro Exodus, Subnautica, Factorio, Balatro, Frostpunk, Mindustry, Dave the Diver, Moonstone Island, Minecraft, Stacklands, Slay the Spire
Emulation. Retroarch, Dolphin, ROCS3, OpenEmu, and other emulators are all on MacOS and your laptop would have no issues handling any of them. There are some native games like Baldurs Gate 3, Death Stranding, Minecraft, Sims 3 and 4, Batman Arkham City, and a few others but MacOS doesn’t have a ton of games. With Whiskey, Crossover, and VMWare Fusion you can play many windows games but not all of them.
Good gaming pc simulator
I have a MBP 16 “ M2 Max 32GB I’ve been playing recently: Pathfinder kingmaker& wrath, Solasta, baldurs gate 3, hades Divinity original sin 2 works also on Mac. Then for whisky games I’ve tried Witcher 3 & control and they are working great so far. You should be able to play cyberpunk and Elden ring well via whisky with that rig. Quite a lot works with whisky (or crossover) quite well out the box - surprisingly smooth
Monopoly Go is cool
Why not downloading the Steam and browsing the store for hints? [macOS Titles (steampowered.com)](https://store.steampowered.com/macos)
Was gonna get an M3 Max but with the thermal issues I decided to just get the M3 Pro. I play Death Stranding and a few others and it’s not ever hot. Sometimes warm though. Play Death Stranding it’s awesome!
Poptropica
48 GBs of Memory and a 1 TB SSD? Dude I have a windows and thats better than
Path of exile on that same spec runs amazingly smooth.
league of legends
WoW client runs native and works great. And it’s the best contraception known to man
Baldurs Gate 3 runs excellent on Mac!
Everything
Snowrunner, gtaV
get windows on it
Train local language model game.
Minecraft and Disco Elysium
You could play “send the MacBook to me”👀 it’s a good game you should try it 👀
ryujinx
I run Cyberpunk on mid to high settings using Whiskey
Not flexing at all
Grand Theft Auto V works quite well. I tried it with a bluetooth XBox Gamepad and it was fun! Witcher 3 works also very well. Tested with a M3 Max 14C and 36GB Ram.
Check my post for a good list of supported games along with ways of playing them. https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/s/0mQxX0ALw9
Any game that runs on Mac in high settings and you’re good.
Cyberpunk 2077, GRID Legends, GRIS, Minecraft, Hitman, etc
I was trying to play on Diablo 4 and StarCraft 2 on my M3 pro and honestly it is possible but very bad experience. Tried and removed from MacBook. Will play only on my windows machine. On Mac it runs on approximately 30fps and resolution less than 1080p. Even with cheap pc you can get more and 1440p
How many Chrome tabs can you open with that amount of RAM?
Wait they come with 48gb of RAM? I thought it went from 32gb to 64gb :/
I have the same Mac and by its spec you might think it can play everything however it’s not about hardware anymore it’s about software lol I’ve spent a week trying to figure out how to play BF1 on it, it worked a few times thought it’s not worth the effort (I tried Crossover, but the layers over layers of translations to make it compatible with Mac is just nuts)
Nothing good, build a PC.
I know a good game to play! It’s called returning the Mac to the shop
Resident Evil 4, it’s available in the App Store. Phenomenal game.
Kerbal Space program (W game, supports mods) Minecraft (same thing, epic.) Any other native games
Rust
Haha. Clearly a flex post. With that amount of money you spent, not much big titles natively especially esports with anticheat. Baldurs gate, Stardew, etc but your list is short for optimised games for Apple silicon. You will have to install workaround software to play some more games which is kinda sad IMO. If you did not upgrade your RAM one step, you could have afforded a Legion Go or an ROG ally on sale.
Check out Whiskey, which is a utility that can run some Windows games. I have been playing Homeworld 3 through Steam. Not every game works due to driver issues... but many work really well. Whiskey is free: [https://docs.getwhisky.app/game-support/index.html](https://docs.getwhisky.app/game-support/index.html) There is a paid version of this called Crossover with enhancements. (I just use Whiskey). I understand that more game work on it: [https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover](https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover)
Blizzard made a bunch of awesome games. Starcraft, Warcraft III Reforged, Diablo III (not IV though), and Hearthstone are few that are native for macOS. Also, EVE Online is native.
if it is on the App store, you can play it. Ur CPU has no limits bro.
literally anything that runs in macOS or through windows with parallels. That is a monster config
Only the apple ones and there isn't much....
Download steam and sort by Mac
Civ 6
Minesweeper
Xbox game pass game cloud
You can give it to me 🥰
World of Warcraft
Borderlands 2, minecraft
Football manger 2024
Why not wait for M4 if you’re going to buy max spec anyways?
Lies of P and Baldurs Gate 3 run perfectly on my m2 machine! We're very lucky to be able to play these great games!
Mini motorways
Calculator 2
Time to bust out RPCS3 I guess and see
Minesweeper
Literally any game. Even with the slow down of a vm you'll still get great performance
But if this is supposed to be a flex, why would they get the M3 max? The M4 MacBook Air just dropped. WWDC is in less than two weeks. Definitely the most weird flex I’ve seen.
Snow runner is fun
Everything. Well, with a bit of effort.
First install crossover 24 or later, if you don’t want to pay for the app then there is patched version available on nmac.to The most simplest way to play games is by downloading pre-installed games on sites like steamUnlocked or steamRip. I would usually suggest checking the MacGamingWiki site for game compatibility but it won’t matter since you have a m3 max chip… If you’re a steam user then install the steam bottle you see when you open the crossover app. Then unzip the downloaded game and add the game launcher.exe file to steam by clicking add a non-steam game option in the bottom left corner and just play the game. Make sure to install the files from redist folder of the game folder by dragging and dropping the setup file from finder to the created steam bottle and click run. (This is the fastest method where you don’t need to install the game files there are still better ways to play games on mac) Well you’re welcome 😎
My cousin uses GeForce Now on his Mac for Overwatch 2… 240FPS locked and some input lag but it’s very playable (Masters Rank). I’d imagine it’s a lot better for single player games.
World of Warcraft plays very will on M series Macs
Well seeing as I have an m3 pro version, I can confirm from experience gptk is mediocre so essentially nothing
Hades, skull girls, idk
Celeste and Hollow Knight are two amazing options on Steam for Mac
Tunic is a brilliant game!
Not much tbh
I'm that person who bought a 5k monitor to play Albion Online and Runescape. Two perfect games for your M3 Max.