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1087 games we have reviewed that run on macOS, best first.
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A bite-sized empire-building strategy game built to finish in under an hour, whose time-conscious pitch genuinely wins over busy players even as a large share of its own audience argues it isn't really the 4X game it's marketed as.
7 / 10
The indie life sim that spent seven years being the great Sims alternative, now 91% positive and a million copies sold — with a build mode people adore and a live mode its own supporters say isn't finished.
7 / 10
A lovingly crafted Sega-Saturn-styled arcade rally racer whose drifting, presentation, and ska-scored charm earn near-universal praise, undercut at launch by a remarkably consistent, specific complaint that its physics punish exactly the high-speed play the game asks for, and by a thin initial track roster the developer has since worked to address with custom-track support and a paid expansion.
7 / 10
A RollerCoaster Tycoon-inspired theme park builder with deep decoration and behind-the-scenes logistics systems, Very Positive across more than 4,700 reviews for its genuine depth and craftsmanship — undercut by an extraordinarily persistent, years-long complaint about the total absence of an undo function, and a punishing economic balance several reviewers say prioritises difficulty over creative freedom.
7 / 10
Owlcat's debut CRPG launched in 2018 famously unfinished, and years of patches earned it a real redemption arc in its own reviews — only for a 2024 change of ownership to hand it a fresh publisher-trust problem that shows up plainly in this year's numbers.
7 / 10
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A relaxed, satisfying business sim about building a computer hardware empire from a one-room office to a global brand, hooking even its harshest critics for tens of hours before a genuinely broken product-scoring mechanic and a year-plus of development silence catch up with it.
7 / 10
A resizable, cozy idle aquarium simulator meant to sit on top of other work or games, praised as a genuinely calming interactive screensaver with a hundred hand-drawn fish to collect, held back by rough balance and UI issues a handful of reviewers report in real detail.
7 / 10
Obsidian's pirate-flavoured CRPG sequel draws real praise for its writing and open-sea setting, but "combat" is the single most-discussed word in its negative reviews — and one detailed review sums up a whole pattern in the corpus: 100+ hours logged, and still never finished.
7 / 10
A decade-old space colony sim with a specific, detailed design complaint at the heart of its negative reviews — one terrain quirk that some players call a fatal flaw and others, including a 900-hour veteran, call simple mismanagement.
7 / 10
A Fire Emblem-flavoured roguelike tactics RPG with real build variety and three distinct factions, undercut by a rough English translation its developer never fixed and support that visibly stopped a few weeks after its December 2022 full release.
7 / 10
A pixel-and-polygon retro boomer shooter with weapons, movement and gore its own review base calls some of the best in the genre, undercut for years by a single, near-unanimously criticised design decision — dying carries no real penalty — that the developer only partially addressed roughly a year after its full release.
7 / 10
A long-awaited psychic-adventure platformer sequel from Double Fine Productions, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 8,400 reviews for its outstanding writing, art, and humour — undercut by a consistent, well-corroborated complaint that its level design and combat feel formulaic compared to the original, a story that loses coherence in its second half, and persistent bugs that this review confirmed have gone unpatched for years.
7 / 10
A rhyming, creeping-horror roguelike that swaps deckbuilding for spatial positioning around a literal ring of rooms — genuinely original, still receiving content updates five years on, and shadowed the whole way by a randomness problem its own community nicknamed "the RNG of Pain."
7 / 10
A traditional roguelike that dresses ADOM- and Tales of Maj'Eyal-style permadeath dungeon-crawling in a friendlier interface and a satisfying meta-progression loop, held back by thin originality, patchy quality-of-life and a scattering of run-ending bugs.
7 / 10
A gorgeous Scandinavian-folklore adventure about grief and redemption from a debut studio of PlayStation veterans — critically Strong and Very Positive on Steam, with a very consistent minority complaint that its puzzle pacing, backtracking and slow, unskippable animations undercut the story it's telling.
7 / 10
Real chess, played with real rules, where every piece you capture hands you a spell card that can freeze a bishop, rotate a corner of the board, or turn a rook into a decoy king. A tactical roguelite built for players who already know how a knight moves.
7 / 10
A hand-drawn wizard's-eye adventure that wears its years-long Kickstarter journey on its sleeve, drawing near-unanimous praise for its charm, writing and lived-in world, while entering Early Access with only its first of three planned acts and a combat system a detailed minority found undercooked.
7 / 10
A DVD-logo corner-hit clicker that grows into a three-mode idle RPG — mining, farming and fishing all feed the same currency as the bouncing logo — but it is a windowed Steam game, not an actual screensaver, and its store page never claims to earn a cent while it isn't open.
7 / 10
A scratch-card incremental that swaps the usual "buy 10" button for a mouse dragged across a lottery ticket, and turns out to be one of the most purely satisfying opening hours the genre has produced this year — right up until the point where the tickets stop having anything new to say.
7 / 10
A lovingly built SNES-style co-op action RPG that spent roughly nine years in Early Access — long enough that its own review section is full of players joking about getting married and having children while waiting — and whose eventual 1.0 release still didn't fully silence the complaints that made those jokes funny in the first place.
7 / 10
The closing chapter of the rebooted Survivor trilogy swapped Crystal Dynamics for Eidos-Montreal and gunfights for stealth and puzzles -- a deliberate pivot that split reviewers in 2018 and, eight years and a Definitive Edition later, is still what most players argue about, alongside a specific progress-blocking puzzle bug that outlived several rounds of patches.
7 / 10
Flying Wild Hog's reboot of the 1997 3D Realms shooter trades the original's crude, now-uncomfortable parody for a genuinely funny buddy-comedy story and some of the most consistently praised melee combat in first-person shooter history — undercut by a specific, well-corroborated critique that the ranged weapons and enemy variety don't hold up nearly as well as the katana does.
7 / 10
A quiet, deeply loved narrative deckbuilder about keeping a family shop and a caravan route alive while conversations themselves become the game's core mechanic — and, for a vocal minority, its central frustration once card types compound faster than most players can keep up with.
7 / 10
Thylacine Studios' third monster-collecting dungeon crawler is Very Positive on Steam and genuinely enormous in scope -- 1,172 Steam achievements' worth of breeding, itemisation and grind -- but its own review history is candid about a crude sense of humour some found genuinely uncomfortable, and most of its longtime fans now point newcomers to its own 2021 successor instead.
7 / 10
