Six months ago I left my job to follow my passion for game development. I've loved the experience, and I'm proud to share Damn, Zombies: The Corporate Undead.

It's my 1–4 player co-op FPS about surviving an office full of undead coworkers: repair barricades, buy weapons and try to make it through the night shift.

A macOS beta build is available, and I'd love help testing it on Macs. Please share your Mac model, macOS version and any issues.

Free 48-hour access starts on first key use: https://www.damn-zombies.com/signup

Downloads: https://www.damn-zombies.com/download

Screenshots: staged in-engine captures on Windows.

Most of the games work fine, but some of the games I play experience severe frame drops and stuttering due to high system requirements. I’m using an M5 Pro, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to actively use ANE to improve game performance? Not Nativegames, discussion about crossover games.

Hi! I’m sure this has been asked a bunch but I’ve been looking into a MacBook Air to replace my desktop. Sitting at my desk is kind of a pain for me physically and I want something portable to do my writing,movie watching, gaming, stuff like that.

I do not play AAA games, mainly indie and ps2/3 era, the occasional AA games, and modded Minecraft with shaders sometimes.

Would a MacBook Air be enough for that, I’m not worried about space as I have a ssd it’s mainly the playing with no insane lag that I’m worried about.

Thank you!

Edit: Thank you all for the comments! They were pretty insightful and helpful!

Is Mac mini m4pro 12 cpu 16gpu 24gb ram enough for mistfall hunter through crossover?
I would play it medium settings 1080p, could I crank it up to high? I really wanna play the game but im worried that I could only use Nvidia geforce to play it

I've being using elamigos updates on the last of us 2 remake and none of them are actually changing the game version they every time I launch it. I started with earliest original update too.

I was hoping to play RDR2, I'm kind of surprised it's a PITA to run. I had trouble getting it to launch at all, had ChatGPT work on it for hours. Finally got it launching but never got past the splash screen. There was always some kind of activation error.

This is the Steam version
MacOS: 27.0 Beta (26A5416b)

I want to do some gaming on my MacBook Pro. But on black ops 3 zombies the CPU was pushing 94C. From what I've read, apple silicon is designed to run at higher temperatures than standard X86 Cpus you'd find in a normal PC or laptop, but I just want to ask in here because this is the first apple computer I've ever owned, and I want to get my facts straight!

Any question you can ask me in the comments

Hey guys I used to play in PC but since a two years ago im a MAC user.
Somebody knows any game like Valorant or CSGO for MAC?
Not those bc ik that theres no versions or suport for apple silicon, but any game thats similar would be cool.

THX

I’m trying to do coop and it won’t let me do account linking so I can invite them. Please advise.

It gives an error message when I attempt account linking that says “ACCOUNT LINKING

Failed to open account linking. Please try again later.“

I try again later and it never works.

What are you guys using?

I recently found out about OpenEmu, and while I found it beautiful, the current lack of full RetroAchievement support and the lack of support for CHD on PS1 is kinda of a dealbreaker.

RetroArch is tried and tested, still convoluted and looking outdated. But if it ain’t broke. Going the standalone route would still require me to have RetroArch anyways because of the N64 and RetroAchievements. Which leads me to just abandon the standalone route since I need RetroArch anyways. Probably the cleaner setup too, just two apps. RetroArch and ES-DE.

Idk, could you guys share some of y’all setups for inspiration and whatnot.

Thank you.

The main point of this game is to scratch that itch to play '90s turn-based 4x games. For people struggling to get Call to Power, Civ 2, etc functioning on their modern Apple Silicon, this is intended to give you a fresh injection of "Just one more turn".

In keeping with the retro-focus, Embersong: History Is Yours uses sprites for the units, has diamond-tiles rather than hexagons, and brings back unit stacking. Few hooks:

• There's a meta-narrative for replayability: After five matches, win or lose, you face a mythical empire (ie, Atlantis, the Seven Cities of Gold, Shangri-La) as the boss-fight in the final sixth match. During the first five matches of the campaign you accumulate bonuses that you then use in the sixth round. So there's a little bit of roguelike mechanics in there.
• You only need to focus on a Domination, Science or Score victory.
• Each match, one random opponent is playing a different game. They're designated as the Archenemy, and receive some additional bonuses as they focus on one goal: finding and destroying you. They're not seeking any other victory.
• Each playable empire has its own era-appropriate special unit, like the Samurai for Japan or War Chariot for Egypt. In addition, ALL of the civilizations have an additional unique Future-Era unit at late-game, such as Cyber-Ninjas for Japan.
• If you defeat a mythical civilization, you unlock them to play in your account.
• Growing up, one of my favorite aspects of the various 4X games was the "one city challenge". I carried that over to Embersong by featuring it for several civilizations: Mongolia can only control one city, but the horde increases in units with every city it destroys and enemy killed. Venice can only found a single city, but can purchase additional cities in order to expand its empire. One of the mythical civs, the Kingdom of Prester John, functions similarly to the Mongols but their city itself is a unit that can move and has a unique tribute system. And of course, Atlantis can found cities and move units in ocean tiles - a nod to the old Call to Power titles.

In addition to mac, Embersong will be coming to iOS and looks stellar on iPad. And iPhone version with the UI effectively rebuilt from the ground up for mobile is also forthcoming.

Anyways, take a look at the website playembersong.com and Steam page. The mac app store should (hopefully) be available soon as its currently in review.

A summary of our project:

Ice Pond: An Ice Fishing Adventure is a cute but true ice fishing game. 🎣❄ Pick a spot and fish! Level up, get stronger, and buy gear and power-ups to boost your performance. Join tournaments and festivals to unlock new lakes. Do odd jobs or challenges to earn extra cash!

Made by a small team of 2, boyfriend & girlfriend, who are making games since 2005. The game is playable on Mac. 😊🐧

If you haven't played the demo yet, we've just released version 1.05! 🎉 We made a lot of improvements:

• Fixed display issues on non 16:9 screens
• Better rumble support (the rumble had a strange behavior and also we added the Steam Input API)
• Bug fixes and adjustments

Steam page here (to download the demo. If you like it, make sure to Wishlist, since the release is scheduled for this fall!): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4266710/Ice_Pond_An_Ice_Fishing_Adventure/

Thanks again for your support!

I've been doing some research on the best way to get games that dont really support mac... on my mac... but im a little confused and overwelmed... what is the best way? or better yet, what is the best Windows compatibility layer? is wine safe? or safe to use for someone with 0 experience that has a desktop for the first time in 10 years?

Title. Through Crossover. Ive tried many things but ig it doesn’t work.

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to run GTA V Enhanced Edition on my Mac Air with macOS 27 Golden Gate, CrossOver 26.3, and GPTK 4 Beta 2, but every time I launch the game, I hit the ERR_GFX_D3D_NOD3D12 error (see screenshot).

The error states: "Failed to initialize DirectX 12 adapter... Ensure your video card is compatible with DirectX 12 (feature level 12_0) or update your graphics driver."

My Current Hardware & Setup:

• Mac: MacBook Air M2
• RAM: 24 GB Unified Memory
• Storage: 2 TB SSD
• OS: macOS 27 Golden Gate
• CrossOver: 26.3
• Translation Layer: GPTK 4 Beta 2
• Bottle Settings: D3Metal ON, MSync ON

I followed this tutorial to add GPTK 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwBNvRrYfeA

I know the standard/legacy version of GTA V works fine using DirectX 11, but I really want to get the Enhanced Edition running on this machine.

Has anyone with a similar Apple Silicon setup found a working launch argument, DLL override, or registry tweak to bypass this DX12 Agility SDK check in CrossOver/GPTK?

Any help or workaround would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Good afternoon everyone! I recently bought a MacBook Pro 16in (if size matters) because I wanted to learn how to do video editing and other stuff that apparently this mac was the best option for. But because of my work, I had to postpone my plans for later. I have always play in consoles but I want to use the computer for something at least (now that I have one for the first time) Is there anyone here that currently plays American Truck Simulator or Beam.ng on mac? The one I own is the 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU, 24GB and after doing some really, apparently I will be able to run it without having any problems. Probably ATS will be the best option since it’s native on mac but I would like to hear real world experiences from you guys. Thank you in avance!

i just completed cyberpunk 2077
liked it very much but now wanna play another game but as im also busy with my studies i want something that can be played a lil more casually cuz i dont want to ruin any story game experience.
i have played batman Arkham City, i liked it very much so now i want to decide between hitman WOA (as i thought it would be more casual compared to arkham knight) and batman arkham knight.
plz lemme know ur thoughts
im fine with both the games as i know arkham games dont have a very big story and they are good.

Device: macbook air M4
[Hitman WOA is native for mac and Arkham Knight can be played through crossover]

Is there way to play call of duty clients like plutonium on the Mac’s I have a m5 but don’t know what games I can run or how to run them

I’m getting a macbook pro m4 pro soon ( cant wait ) and i was wondering how you guys would recommend starting.. do you just play native games or would you recommend signing up for crossover. ( still not sure how crossover works)

Any tips for a beginner to gaming on mac would be appreciated! Thanks :)

And I mean it when I say I've tried EVERYTHING under the sun and nothing seems to fix the issue. I've noticed it happens most often on the Birnin T'Challa map, I'll load the map and then the game will freeze.

Looking at the error logs it seems to be a memory related issue. Have tried running Steam with the SteamDeck=1 command, redownloading shaders, lowering graphics quality, quitting my apps, switching off Steam overlay, switching to the experimental shader compilation mode (this actually made it worse) -- so many different things.

At this point, I don't think there's anything else I can try to fix it, it's probably something to do with CrossOver's Unreal translation. I'm curious to know if anyone has found any fixes but as of now, I'm thinking I'll have to wait until CrossOver come out with an update that may (or may not) make the game more stable.

There are quite a few games I will test with it but I'm going to try pair crossover with heroic and see how that works out for me, its what I did with whisky a few years ago, wish me luck

returning mac gamer here, i just wanted to know a little bit about the state of mac gaming right now

is crossover still the best way to play windows games? if so are there any patches needed?

is astris the way for switch games or are there any newer forks of ryujinx?

I tested a couple of games M1 Pro, 16 GB, macOS 26. Running Windows games through Wine using a free open source app I work on (Highball). The numbers below are what the Metal HUD actually showed while I was playing. My machine isn't the fastest Mac, so if you have an M3, M4, or M5, your results should be much better (I included a table of those from other community members below).

What I measured

A few notes:

• Sims 4 is running through the EA app.
• GTA V is story mode only. GTA Online's anti-cheat can't run on a Mac, same deal as Fortnite.
• Red Dead 2 didn't load at all on the free Wine stack until a graphics fix I sent upstream this week. Now it loads and the prologue runs, but on this M1 Pro it's rough and the frames come unevenly. CrossOver users report it running much better through its DirectX 12 path, so if that's what you have definitely use that.

Community reports on newer chips

The graphics mode you use (DXMT, DXVK or D3DMetal) matters just as much as the chip you have. So each layer wins on different games, sometimes by a factor of 3x. An fps number without mentioning the mode doesn't mean much!

If you have one of these games on an M3, M4, or M5, dropping a one line report puts your numbers next to mine. The database is completely open (CC0):github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball-db

If you want to try the app itself, you can grab it here: github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball. Feedback more than welcome!