Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.
Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.
Yup, I play a few on my work laptop (not my choice of hardware/software). A lot of stuff doesn’t work, but as an occasional time-waster when I’m taking a break, it works okay.
I mostly just play quick Risk matches, but there’s an okay selection of games. It basically feels like Steam on Linux back when they first launched the Linux client before Proton a thing. It kinda sucks, but there’s enough selection for what I need it for.
These days I just keep my Steam Deck at my desk and play games that way instead. But before I got my Steam Deck, I played natively on macOS.
there are games for mac?!
Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.
Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.
I wonder if steam will make a proton for mac.
Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.
I used to play so many of their games. The Escape Velocity series was great. And I remember one called Slithereens. Oh the nostalgia!
Bungie also treated Mac as a first class platform during late 90s and 2000s.
Yeah apparently, or at least mac users with steam installed
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Yup, I play a few on my work laptop (not my choice of hardware/software). A lot of stuff doesn’t work, but as an occasional time-waster when I’m taking a break, it works okay.
I mostly just play quick Risk matches, but there’s an okay selection of games. It basically feels like Steam on Linux back when they first launched the Linux client before Proton a thing. It kinda sucks, but there’s enough selection for what I need it for.
These days I just keep my Steam Deck at my desk and play games that way instead. But before I got my Steam Deck, I played natively on macOS.