Variety is the spice of Mac gaming, if last month’s top releases are any indication. Sure, tactical action, space shooting/exploration, and point-and-click adventures are all tried-and-true gaming concepts. But have you ever played a first-person cat simulator wherein the goal is simply to knock everything over? How about a game in which your actions as a housekeeper might help decide the fate of a civil war? Needless to say, Mac gaming is more diverse—and exciting—than ever, and we’ve picked the ten games from May that grabbed our attention the most. Whatever your tastes, you’ll surely find something interesting to play in this bunch. Klei Entertainment has a track record of excellence—see, and —so the praise around ($20) is hardly surprising.
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Most spy games take the route of blending action and stealth, however Invisible, Inc. Is a turn-based tactical affair wherein your every action contributes to (or takes away from) your success. As a group of covert agents, you’ll infiltrate buildings—with randomly generated contents, for maximum replayability—and use an array of tactics, including hacking security systems, picking locks, and taking out guards as needed. It looks super stylish and charmingly challenging, and the fact that you’re working for futuristic corporate clients sounds like an intriguing twist. Between being the latest entry in a 31-year-old series and for development, ($60) has maintained a high profile over the past couple of years. And after launching in beta for Mac some weeks back, it’s now available as a full release. Elite: Dangerous thrusts you into space and then leaves you to your own devices.
You can trade items legally, become a pirate, battle other ships, and explore the galaxy, which is modeled 1:1 after the Milky Way. And it has a persistent online world, with players’ collective actions potentially shaping the storyline ahead. It’s vast and impressive, and seems like a good place to indulge some sci-fi fantasies. Audiosurf is gospel amongst music gaming fans, as it’s able to transform your entire music library into a seemingly endless array of rhythmic challenge stages.
And now, after a lengthy Steam Early Access period, the sequel is fully available to purchase and enjoy. What’s new about ($15)? True, it maintains the same general approach: Each song you play is transformed into a rollercoaster-like track full of beat-matched icons to collect with a hovercraft. However, along with a nice visual upgrade, it’s been made very mod-friendly, with an array of game modes, graphic options, and other tweaks provided by the community. It already has more than 500 free mods to try out, so if you have a big music library and a lot of time, Audiosurf 2 can satisfy for ages. If you love old-school action/adventure games, don’t miss ($20). This retro-stylized side-scroller is pretty clearly designed as an homage to Nintendo’s classic Super Metroid, delivering a familiar blend of exploration and action in a sci-fi universe, complete with similar visual and audio motifs.
You might be tempted to call it a knockoff, but Axiom Verge has been praised in reviews for introducing some interesting gameplay elements into the classic framework—and besides, it’s not like Nintendo has bothered to deliver a 2D Metroid game in the last decade, and none of those games are on Mac. This looks like retro done right if you’ve got an itch for rich sci-fi action/adventure. Badland remains on iPhone and iPad—and it’s been steadily updated over the last couple years, to boot. But if you ever wanted to play it with a gamepad or keyboard, or simply see it on a larger screen, now’s your chance: ($10) has just launched on Mac. Beyond flaunting its success, the Mac version delivers a load of content: 100 single-player stages, 100 co-op multiplayer levels, and 27 local battle arenas. And this already amazing-looking game should really shine in 1080p, showing off its gorgeous, atmospheric artwork as you flap your little creatures through hazardous terrain. If you missed it on iOS or crave a return trip, this is the way to play.
You’ve probably never played anything quite like ($20). Inspired by the idea of what innocent bystanders experience in the worlds of first-person shooters, this adventure game puts you in the role of a housekeeper in a fictional South American country in 1972 following a military coup. Once a week, for an hour at a time, you clean the apartment of a wealthy, powerful man who starts leaving crucial intelligence in plain sight. Do you breach his privacy by going through his belongings and sharing information with revolutionaries? Is he intentionally trying to send you a message? Will you play a role in the downfall of Anchuria’s dictator, or let history run its course? It might seem mundane to some, but it sounds pretty captivating to us.
Cats are wonderful, but let’s face it: Cats are also sort of the worst, especially if you’re not around to pet them 24/7. But rather than scream at your furry friends for their indiscretions, why not try seeing it through their eyes? That’s where ($10) comes into play. Truth be told, there’s no sympathizing to be found here: You’ll simply play as a cat and try to knock everything onto the ground in each room you explore. It’s a first-person game, but you’re armed only with your two paws—and power-ups found around each area. Catlateral Damage looks and sounds superbly silly and stupid, but that’s obviously the point. It’s time to get in touch with your feline side.
Nancy Drew may be 85 years old (the first book came out in 1930), but the literary heroine is thriving in the world of adventure games. Case in point: ($20) is the 32nd point-and-click adventure game inspired by the long-running novel series, and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Sea of Darkness sees the teen sleuth transported to Iceland—complete with the Northern Lights—to try and find the missing captain of a ship. You’ll chat with locals, solve puzzles, and try to piece together clues from the environments. It looks like pretty standard adventure fare, and after 32 entries, we don’t expect surprises here. But for fans, it’s another new quest to dig into.
Real-time strategy matches can be sprawling, exhausting affairs, requiring an intense amount of concentration as you micromanage individual units. ($12) isn’t that game.
Instead, this flashy little indie game distills the essence of the RTS genre into matches that last about five minutes. You don’t have hundreds of individual units or massive maps to manage either: You can see the entire game board on one screen, and your goal is to corner your foe and take over the entire map. It has a similar visual style as Badland (and similarly bite-sized gameplay chunks, as well), and offers both local and online multiplayer showdowns.
We tried writing something here, but couldn’t top the game’s official description on Steam. So here’s that: “ ($20) is a dystopian steampunk mini-golf adventure game set in the skies above an alternate world where life on the ground is enveloped in permanent smog, constant darkness, and never-ending rain.” In other words, it’s no —or even.
And it’s a weird one, indeed. You’ll play on courses suspended in the clouds and draped with Victorian design influences, with an array of unique power-ups available to manipulate your ball towards its destination. And you can even create and share your own custom courses. If you like golf but don’t love realism or nature, Vertiginous Golf might satisfy.
Rated 4 out of 5 by HillbillyGal from Challenging, Mildly Addictive I enjoy trivia and this game is very good. They get pretty tricky! This game really tests your knowledge which I enjoy. I'm not a golfer so I don't really understand the terms in this game such as 'par,' 'shank,' 'hook' etc. But that's ok. The main thing is to get as many answers to the trivia questions correct as you can.
The more correct your answers the better golf shot you will get. Just aim the red arrow toward the hole, pick your club, answer the trivia question correctly and you have it made. If you don't answer it correctly that's ok, too. I enjoyed playing the free trial of this game.
Rated 2 out of 5 by Sternum from Not Bad! Maybe it is just me. I always loved the older games, being 38, I now feel old when I try newer games and am a bit unimpressed.! Saying that, THIS GAME IS FUN!
I enjoy the golf element as I always have loved any golfing game, especially a simple crazy golf type or thereabouts. The thing with this, and many other games on this site is that they mix elements of other game styles into one game and I really don't know if I like it this way or not. I would have been more happy to find that this game was a golf game, with a bit more skill element in the choosing and using of clubs, power of hit etc. Instead these are worked out by how well you answer a trivia question! This reduces the 'skill' in the golf part to luck! If you get a hard question you will fail to pot the ball, if you get an easy one and win it, you win! I don't like the gameplay all that much but I will say it is very nice interface, the game is relaxing and works well on my win 7 PC with not much ram OK.
I will continue to play it but I probably won't be looking for any more trivia mixed with. games in future.