PC MacOS Game Recommendations?

[Piper Halliwell]

Hi! I haven't posted on here for a while and I've been meaning to ask this question since I've sort of transitioned from WIN10 to MacOS. This new Macbook Air laptop is the one I use for school. However, I'm getting kinda tired of some of the games I have on the steam store. So I'm looking to expand my library a little with emulation or anything! Unfortunately, my options are limited since I'm using an M4 Mac Air and wine doesn't work. Anyone have any recommendations for games in the old school FPS category? Or RPGs? Anything that I can play if I need a short break from college work :,)

 

[DunkeyKong]

You can play games with an emulator until the 7th gen (and maybe beyond) if you have the system requirements, here's the list for example
https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1cpk4ox/all_emulators_that_work_on_mac/

 

[Piper Halliwell]

You can play games with an emulator until the 7th gen (and maybe beyond) if you have the system requirements, here's the list for example
https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1cpk4ox/all_emulators_that_work_on_mac/

Thanks! I'll take a look. I don't know the exact gen but all I know its the 2025 Macbook Air

 

[Natsuyasumi]

For old School FPS, The original Marathon games are free and have MacOS ports.

For emulation, there's OpenEmu, Dolphin, PCSX2, Duckstation, BSNES, Mesen, Citra, Cemu, Xemu, Flycast, Vita3k, PPSSPP, Pico-8, RPCS3, ShadPS4, Ryujinx, the list goes on.

Get a free trial to the Apple Arcade for a couple hundred games. Whether you enjoy any of them depends on your taste.. They have Fantasian and a few other RPGs on there.

Should be able to play all of the above no problem on a 2025 MBA.

 

[Segadude113]

the Ultima series for RPGs
Marathon trilogy for FPS
i screenshot a bunch of Mac games that were ported to Windows but there's ways to play the originals via Sheepshaver and Basilisk II.

Here's some other Mac games that were brought back, Monkey Shines requires Java to run

 

[Sfjeov]

Mac Source Ports

 

[Segadude113]

Mac Source Ports

ah, speaking of the Marathon trilogy! All 3 games are here! :D

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Also Marathon Infinity is getting a new scenario on September 23rd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1ni7wd5/dont_worry_the_marathon_extraction_shooter_game/

 

[Jeff]

Try an app called Whisky. it's like Wine, but easy to use to play Windows only fan games. https://getwhisky.app/