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1087 games we have reviewed that run on macOS, best first.
1087 reviews
A papercraft love letter to Diablo 1 that lets you set your own dungeon length with a literal on-screen dial — genuinely inventive and warmly reviewed by 90% of its nearly 4,000 players, while a consistent minority argue its card system is really just reskinned gear and its rail-movement combat wears thin well before the credits.
6.5 / 10
Tim Schafer's Double Fine returned to point-and-click adventure games with this Kickstarter-funded, celebrity-voiced two-part story about a girl fighting to escape a human sacrifice ritual and a boy trapped in an overprotective spaceship — and reviewers overwhelmingly agree on exactly where it succeeds and where it falls apart, splitting almost perfectly along the game's own Act 1/Act 2 structure.
6.5 / 10
Double Fine's heavy-metal fever dream casts Jack Black as roadie-turned-warrior Eddie Riggs across a world built from classic album art, voiced by an astonishing roster of real metal legends — reviewers adore its soundtrack, humor and setting almost unconditionally, while a near-universal, well-documented complaint targets the game's mid-campaign shift into RTS-style stage battles that many feel was never properly set up or well executed.
6.5 / 10
A short, cute incremental game from Moon Lagoon, the developers of Loddlenauts, casting players as a parakeet running a bug-catching shop, Overwhelmingly Positive across 608 English reviews for its charming art and satisfying core loop — with a widely repeated complaint that its two-to-three-hour runtime is too short for what it sets out to do.
6.5 / 10
Maracas Studio's cozy cat post office asks players to sort, scan, and stamp an endless tide of parcels at their own pace — a genuinely satisfying organization loop, warmly received for its low-pressure, no-punishment design, that a large share of players say runs out of new ideas well before the story does.
6.5 / 10
Cattails lets you live out the exact fantasy its title promises — join a wild cat colony, hunt, fight, fall in love, raise kittens — and its Overwhelmingly Positive reception is powered substantially by how rare and specific that fantasy is, especially for anyone who grew up on the Warrior Cats books. Its own detailed critics describe a specific, repeated problem underneath the premise: the actual moment-to-moment hunting and navigation often get in the way of the fantasy rather than supporting it.
6.5 / 10
An idle clicker that spends its entropy on the entire history of life and technology instead of lemonade stands, with genuine scientific content dressing up a tech tree that is more linear than it looks and a monetisation stack that leans harder every year it stays alive.
6.5 / 10
A tight, satisfying incremental lumberjack game from solo developer Blasted Games, whose short, one-sitting progression loop won over most players even as a genuinely weak prestige system and a thin endgame drew real complaints, later answered by a dedicated Super Prestige update.
6.5 / 10
A landmark, spiritual successor to SimCity that became the definitive modern city-builder, Very Positive across more than 100,000 reviews for genuinely excellent core simulation systems — dominated by an extraordinarily consistent complaint about Paradox Interactive's DLC pricing, a forced third-party launcher and expanded data-collection requirements that a large share of longtime fans say turned a beloved game hostile to its own community.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely deep idle civilization builder — a hundred-plus technologies, era-spanning wonders, a real global trading market — undercut by a headline feature that's been advertised for over a year without actually existing.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, addictive clickmash dungeon crawler with a genuine timing-based blocking mechanic, well liked for its first hours, undercut by a real difficulty wall between its first two dungeons and a month of active support that stopped abruptly in early 2024.
6.5 / 10
A frantic, keyboard-driven cooking simulator sequel with a vastly expanded recipe catalogue, Very Positive across more than 1,600 reviews — held back by an extremely consistent complaint from longtime fans that dropping the original's single-restaurant campaign for a preset-restaurant structure stripped away the series' sense of progression, alongside real, specific technical bugs affecting controllers, 4K displays and numpad keybindings.
6.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic road trip sequel to the beloved typing-and-cooking series that keeps the music and charm fans expect, but ramps up its trademark chaos so steeply from the very first stop that global achievement data shows almost nobody reaches its later content.
6.5 / 10
A short, relaxing 3D cleaning game about tidying rooms messed up by playful cats, praised for its lo-fi charm but criticized by reviewers for finicky item-grabbing, poor visibility on some clutter, and a repetitive 30-level structure that most finish in two to four hours.
6.5 / 10
A charming Dwarf Fortress-Terraria-Dungeon Keeper mashup whose own review base overwhelmingly describes the same arc — a genuinely magical opening stretch followed by a steep decline into repetitive grind — still receiving real updates a striking twelve years after its original release.
6.5 / 10
The fourth entry in a dark-fairytale puzzle-adventure series, sending an ordinary fishing trip somewhere far stranger, whose hand-drawn art, voice acting, and refined puzzle design earn continued affection from series fans, tempered by a small but specific chorus finding this the shortest, easiest, and least atmospheric entry so far.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely masterful medieval dynasty simulator, free to install and rated Very Positive by tens of thousands of players who, in review after review across more than a decade, still recommend it against a thumbs-down over what completing its DLC catalog actually costs.
6.5 / 10
A dice-based roguelike exploration game sending Victorian-era adventurers across dangerous islands, Very Positive across nearly 600 reviews for its ambitious expanded systems — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint from fans of the original Curious Expedition that this sequel is a downgrade in charm, pacing, and combat depth, compounded by overcomplicated systems and unbalanced difficulty.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based zombie survival RPG that splits its time between running a camp and sending a squad out to fight — genuinely deep for the first stretch, but Steam's own review text and achievement curve agree it wears thin well before the credits.
6.5 / 10
A comedic, procedurally generated zombie road-trip RPG in the spirit of Oregon Trail, Very Positive across more than 6,300 reviews for its charm and replayable structure — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that random events can end a well-played run through no fault of the player, and a persistent, specifically reported local co-op and controller-configuration bug several reviewers say has gone unresolved for close to a decade.
6.5 / 10
Cold War Naval Sim, Fifteen Minutes Into the Future of 1989 — In Space Deck & Conn puts you in command of a single nuclear-powered corvette in an endless, low-key war against the S
6.5 / 10
A free desktop-companion idle racing management sim in the mould of Rusty's Retirement, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its charming background-friendly presentation and cross-platform reach, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a paid pay-to-win DLC car, a thin Steam Market economy, and a requirement to stay online to keep progressing.
6.5 / 10
Developer and publisher Rogueside delivers a Hades-and-Vampire-Survivors-inspired bullet-heaven roguelite starring a rock band that sold its soul to the Devil, earning enthusiastic, specific praise for its art direction, voice acting and metal-infused presentation from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about thin content, an under-explained build system, and a specific music-dependent bug that can leave characters unable to attack.
6.5 / 10
A first-person puzzle adventure from the makers of Quern, praised for its atmosphere and early-game puzzle design but criticized by many reviewers for funneling an island that looks vast and explorable into a single linear manor, with puzzle quality and pacing declining sharply toward a short, abrupt ending.
6.5 / 10
