Suggest me a game for Mac

The Game Room
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Directly to the point… I just switched to Mac and I’m trying to find a few good games. I rarely if ever shop for games so I don’t know what’s out there anymore.

The last thing I really enjoyed was Sins of a Solar Empire, and I wore that sucker out. I liked it because I enjoy realtime strategy, but few of them are so well-balanced in terms of complexity, navigability, and scope.

I also really enjoyed BF2, but at that time I had a monster graphics card which I don’t now.

Also liked Hearthstone, but I got tired of having to keep up with every fancy new deck that came out.

In general I tend not to go for the fantasy genre. It’s just not my thing.

Hardware: MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB. It’s not going to smoke any graphics benchmarks obviously, but that’s not a requirement for me.

Thanks in advance, and feel free to digress into anything I haven’t explored enough. I’m not really aware of the current state of the art.

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How do you feel about city building?

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I played the heck out of SimCity 4, so this looks pretty good. Thanks.

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You can run windows on a Mac, either by the native Bootcamp or with a Parallels type app, so you don’t have to restrict yourself to Mac games.

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Stellaris…

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Concrete Jungle might be of interest. Sort of a city builder/deck builder hybrid.

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And of course Europa Universalis IV is also Mac compatible.

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RimWorld is probably the new standard in sandbox building games. Mac version is solid as far as I know.

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Palooka were you a BF2 player for a while? I could swear I’d seen that tag floating up in the hills of Karkand, haha.

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I’ve heard good things about Children of a Dead Earth.

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It’s tough to tell from your listed examples what other games you’d like, so I’ll just list out the games I’ve played and enjoyed on Mac, filtering out the fantasy:

Starcraft 2
And Yet It Moves: A peculiar platformer where you can change the direction of gravity at will
Don’t Starve: An unforgiving survival game, where you have to build up everything you need from nothing
Gratuitous Space Battles: Assemble a fleet from customizable ships and give them general orders, then hit go and watch them carry out those orders fighting an enemy fleet.
Portal and Portal 2 (and recently, a free add-on called Portal Stories: Mel)
Terraria (OK, I guess this is technically fantasy, but it doesn’t have the same feel as most fantasy): 2-d platformer sandbox, with a progression of bosses and other monsters to fight.

All of these except for Starcraft are on Steam.

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Thanks everyone. Everything looks good but I have to pick one first, so I think I’ll try Skylines. Definltely bookmarking the thread, though.

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Are you already done with the Civilization series? It’s available for the Mac, too.

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I love this game! Although after having played the shit out of it, I realized almost all of the difficulty is in the complete lack of any instruction whatsoever. Once you’ve figured out what everything is for and how to build it, it’s pretty easy.

For the OP, I don’t know how much you are or aren’t into puzzle platformers but I will recommend Braid, The Bridge, and FEZ. Braid is all about time manipulation, The Bridge is all about gravity manipulation (and has an amazing Escher-eque aesthetic), and FEZ is all about dimensional/perspective manipulation. All are fantastic, highly acclaimed games. They’re all available through Steam, and Braid is also available from the App Store. And they’re all very cheap, at $14.99, $9.99, and $9.99, respectively, and are almost always included in digital game distributor sales.

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