20 best games for Mac
If there’s one good thing about the relative scarcity of games on the Mac, it’s that we often get the best games when we do get them. Sure, you’ll find a few stinkers, but the fact remains that many developers don’t even consider porting their creations – and they’re almost always ports – over to Apple’s desktop system unless they think they have a chance of surviving between brushed aluminium and a Retina display. In fact, there are enough quality games on Mac that I could easily rattle out a list with 30 more, but nobody has time for that. For our money (and yours), these are the best.
A couple of quick notes: first, most links here go to Steam, but you can find many of the same titles on the Mac App Store. You’ll almost certainly save money on Steam, though, especially since some games are on sale right now. Secondly, a couple or these games haven’t been updated for 64-bit support in macOS Catalina yet, so for now you can only play them on Mojave or earlier. Hopefully the developers will fix that soon, but we advise checking for the warning on the Steam landing page before buying a game.
1. Portal
Price: £7.19 from fave.co/2x7HXCb
Portal 2 may be the perfect game. It’s a puzzler at heart, but it injects those puzzles – these involve the best placement of the portals, which you
