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/

 

[Segadude113]

Munchies

GitHub - ascott18/Munchies: A re-creation of Michael Fan's 1996-2001 game, Munchies.

A re-creation of Michael Fan's 1996-2001 game, Munchies. - ascott18/Munchies

github.com

Power Pete/Mighty Mike

GitHub - jorio/MightyMike: Pangea Software's Mighty Mike (Power Pete) for modern systems

Pangea Software's Mighty Mike (Power Pete) for modern systems - jorio/MightyMike

github.com

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Saturn games are a bit iffy with or without Retroarch and OpenEmu but other than that, you’ll have good options for pretty much every console up until more modern ones like PS4

Playing Windows games can be a bit annoying though. The least storage costly method is BootCamp but BootCamp can only be turned on by shutting down the computer and pressing a specific button combination before it boots.

 

[Segadude113]

Saturn games are a bit iffy with or without Retroarch and OpenEmu but other than that, you’ll have good options for pretty much every console up until more modern ones like PS4

heck you can get a mac mini dirt cheap online, doesn't have to be current model. Makes for a good emulation machine.

 

[Judgment System]

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/

I second this. Ive gotten everything 6th gen and below to work excellently and about 75% of games I try on RPCS3 give me no issues.

 

[Segadude113]

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster | Zomb's Lair

Install and play Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995) on your modern PC | Screenshots | Review

www.zombs-lair.com

Journeyman: Project Turbo | Zomb's Lair

Install and play Journeyman: Project Turbo (1993) on your modern PC | Screenshots | Review

www.zombs-lair.com

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Scarab of Ra that runs on Windows 11

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

 

[SpecialK]

Is not a game, but as multiplatform emulator I recommend OpenEmu: https://openemu.org

For me is the best one, fast and good looking. I would love to have something similar in Windows, but It doesn't exist.

 

[nobitakun]

Is that transition reversible? because macOS is not the right platform for playing native PC games counterparts. Although for emulation is very nice, I have an Air M1 laptop and it can run even many Switch games perfectly.

 

[Segadude113]

Is that transition reversible? because macOS is not the right platform for playing native PC games counterparts. Although for emulation is very nice, I have an Air M1 laptop and it can run even many Switch games perfectly.

what about Mac games? EDIT: Also i realized my mistake in the last few posts. I've been posting links to Mac games ported to Windows, not links to the Mac versions for OSX onward. ._. sorry.