Apple Games

[Nalano]

So I'm going on a weekend excursion which means I have to abandon my pcmasterrace desktops for a whole three days, leaving me with only a semi-ancient dell laptop and a slick new macbook pro.

I installed Steam on the Mac and opened up my games list. Apparently my choices are:

Valve's catalog
Civ 5

So, are there any single-player games that are available on the Mac that happen to be for sale?

[Sic]

Is there any reason you don't want to do boot-camp on it?

[Nalano]

Is there any reason you don't want to do boot-camp on it?

Because I hate macs and don't use them unless backed against a wall, because I'm leaving tomorrow and don't have time to buy/steal the software needed, and because emulation sucks

[Sic]

Apple makes ridiculously good hardware, and boot-camp isn't emulation, it's simply installing Win7 on Apple hardware.

I totally get that you don't have the time to do the install (and don't have the license), though.


Doesn't DOSBOX work on OSX?

[Nalano]

Apple makes ridiculously good hardware

I lol'd, but I don't want this to become a mac debate. Have you a suggestion for mac games?

[c-Row]

Well, you could just open the Mac tab on the Steam store page, but apparently that's too much stress for you. So...

Steam (most of which should run fine on every config)
Torchlight
Frozen Synapse
The Binding Of Isaac
Botanicula/Machinarium
1000 Amps
The Unstoppable Gorg!
Trine 2
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Limbo

Non-Steam (either physical or digitally available elsewhere)
StarCraft II
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Diablo III
Rage

Or you could go down the dreaded emulation road, get Boxer and throw some DOS games at it.

[johnki]

Yeah, DOSBox is OSX friendly, leaving you with a plethora of older games to choose from.

Deus Ex Human Revolution is on Mac, and the previous two games are too, if I remember correctly.

Actually, there are a TON of games that were published on Mac, from the first Halo, to No One Lives Forever, Age of Empires, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, but a lot of them are really hard to find.

They have a Mac abandonware site somewhere, but you'd need Mac OS 9 or lower.

Oh! Check out the games from Pangea Software (http://pangeasoft.net) and Ambrosia Software (http://www.ambrosiasw.com).

EDIT: Payback (http://www.apex-designs.net/payback.html) was an awesome GTA clone for pretty much everything except Windows.

EDIT: Oh, and there's every game that's come to a Humble Bundle, except for the Oxeye Mojam game.

[Nalano]

Well, you could just open the Mac tab on the Steam store page, but apparently that's too much stress for you.

The idea was to get it on sale, tho thanks for pointing out Torchlight. Clickfests it shall be!

[c-Row]

The idea was to get it on sale, tho thanks for pointing out Torchlight. Clickfests it shall be!

Guess you just missed the Humble Bundle by some days. But Torchlight is a good choice - just bring a mouse. ;)

[Heliocentric]

Apple bobbing is my favourite, but I've heard good things about spin the Apple if it's played with the right people.

[bonkers]

Did you grab any of the Humble Bundles? That should be enough for a few days ;)

*edit*
Ah, was mentioned above. Missed that.

[eel]

Puzzle Agent 1 is pretty neat.

[Skalpadda]

Apple bobbing is my favourite, but I've heard good things about spin the Apple if it's played with the right people.

I would like to express my disappointment over this not being the topic of the thread.

[bonkers]

You could create one?
Maybe it will even have punapples...

[roryok]

and because emulation sucks

While the other points pretty much stand for themselves, bootcamp is just an Apple makey-upey word for "windows drivers". You install Windows natively (you can even just format the whole thing, there's no need to have MacOS on it at all) and then you install "bootcamp", which is the drivers from the OSX disc.

I ran my macbook for 2 years with only windows. It's not the best hardware but I got it cheap off a guy at work.

[SouperSteve0]

If you can find it, get Escape Velocity: Nova. It's a bit old but is my favorite mac game and one of my favorite games ever. Good old space do-what-the-fuck-you-want-er