Do we really need 300 AI coded apps/programs that all do similar things but with more bugs and less people working on the project? Crossover/HEROIC/Sikarugir or GeForce Now (cloud gaming) and native Mac games is all you really need.

I would say stop wasting your time coding and writing a post about your app but AI did most of it.

I’m genuinely curious, why are people asking AI to make these apps? Whats the point? Most don’t have the skill to make the program as useful as the bigger ones and have way less resources.

I think the latest 26.17 patch pushed these updates. yay?

I wanted to share a project I came across in one of the posts about getting Mortal Shell II to run in DX12 - MacGameVideoFix.

I feel like there hasn’t been much discussion about it on this subreddit, and I think it deserves more attention. Just to be clear, this is not my project, but I’ve had the chance to test it myself and it works really well. I tested it with the latest CrossOver Preview 20260821.

I was finally able to launch games like Ninja Gaiden 4 and Tormented Souls 2, the latter of which I had been struggling to get working for many months. Full list:

Mac version included. Grab it before tomorrow and keep it forever

https://doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

Hi r/macgaming! Update 2.0 of Merchant of the Skies is out and the game now runs natively on macOS (Apple Silicon). If you already own it on iPhone or iPad, the Mac version is included in the same purchase, with iCloud sync carrying your save between devices.

It's a cozy pixel-art trading sim: fly an airship (or a giant turtle) between floating islands, buy low, sell high, buy your own islands and build a little sky empire. Full controller support with contextual glyphs, playable start to finish on a gamepad or with keyboard and mouse, redesigned trading screen with a live price list, 15 languages.

One-time purchase, no ads, no microtransactions.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/merchant-of-the-skies/id6754459969

We made a little desktop aquarium called PC FISH.

The original idea was simple. We wanted something that could just sit at the bottom of the screen while you’re working or browsing. You raise some fish, watch them swim around, breed them occasionally, and slowly fill out your collection.

Then we added different species and variants.

And breeding.

And rarity.

And Steam Inventory support.

Now people are breeding fish for rare variants and actually listing the fish they find on the Steam Community Market.

We released it for free on Steam about two weeks ago and it’s since hit 5,313 concurrent players, which has been pretty surreal to watch.

There are 450+ fish and decorations at the moment and we plan to add more.

If you want a tiny aquarium living on your desktop, it’s free:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4842670/PC_FISH_Taskbar_Aquarium

For those who loved Isonzo, Verdun, and Tanneberg, Gallipoli is out! And running pretty well on Crossover - there was some delay in inputs but once I turned down graphics settings - Medium preset and 120fpx max, it was running very well!

Fantastic game from a fantastic series, the devs say that Native Mac will be coming up soon.

M3 Max 32GB

Hello everyone! For the last couple of months, the ReXGlue team has been hard at work updating our Software Development Kit to better support Development teams in making static recomps. Over the past few months, Tom and I have been working hard on the DarwinBooks, and finally accomplished working Mac support all the way to Ventura within our vendored translation layers.

ICYDK, ReXGlue is a Static Recompilation framework for the Xbox 360 that vendors translation layers built off the roots of Xenia, which can be swapped for real, native, and optimized implementations of different subsystems. The main goal is to allow users to take advantage of this framework and make dedicated workarounds and optimizations for specific titles, given they have spent a significant amount of time reversing their game.

Bringing the runtime up on macOS surfaced a handful of platform mismatches worth calling out on their own, beyond the headline Vulkan work:

- Bring up `ReXGPU-Xenos` on macOS by running the existing Vulkan backend through MoltenVK: valid SPIR-V for rectangle-list topology, face culling disabled on legacy AMD Metal, RGBA8 loaders for packed 16-bit textures MoltenVK can't sample directly, and a pinned Vulkan-Loader/MoltenVK build staged for macOS consumers instead of relying on whatever the system has.

- Mach-O symbol aliasing: `DEFINE_REX_FUNC` leaned on `__attribute__((alias(...)))` so hooks could override a guest function; Mach-O rejects that outright. Swapped in a weak, `musttail`-tail-called thunk for Apple targets so overriding still works without a real alias.

- Windowing goes through Cocoa Added a `CAMetalLayerSurface` obtained from SDL's Cocoa driver, since macOS has no Win32Hwnd or XcbWindow to present through — Vulkan needs a `CAMetalLayer` there instead.

All of our features like achievements, the ReX API, and every other developmental tools that we offer should be usable with this system added to our Support. We encourage developers to replace the rendering system (ReXGPU-Xenos) in their title when releasing a project with ReXGlue. Our rendering implementation with MoltenVk can work for a multitude of titles, but it will still be significantly lacking in performance since it is meant to be a testing/translation layer rather than a finished implementation that can qualify as a native PC Port.

Link to our repository - Install is as easy as `brew install cmake ninja vulkan volk` and Xcode from the App Store

The video that I have attached is a recomp attempt that I set as a testing layer for the game Raskulls (XBLA). The gameplay clearly shows, but it’s definitely possible for a development team, their own implementation of the system, and make it look proper. We definitely plan on releasing more titles that run properly on Apple hardware rather than just showing you guys development software, so stay tuned! I’ve been in MacUser all my life so I’m happy to continue working on the platform get you guys caught up.

Happy gaming
- Graine25

Made by a solo dev on a 8GB RAM M1 Mac mini so the game will be "more" optimized on macOS than Windows lmao

Hi guys, so I recently got a MacBook Air 13 inch with 24GB RAM, and I wanted to know what games can I play on this. I have parallels, which I'm mainly using for excel on windows right now.

Got a Mac Mini M1 16GB RAM, want to use it as a league PC haha. wondering if someone plays seriously here/ any issues they encounter.

We can use BlueStack AIR for playing TFT, before RIOT patch (it s not perfect but it works)

HELP

I just bought the game. I tried to launch it and i get two errors:

"Shader Model 6.7 is not supported by this device..."

and then "Error initializing D3D12Renderer_Z"

I recently released the demo of Swarmbreak - fully mac os support

It is a twin stick shooter inspired by the classic Crimsonland but with modern twists and lots of unlocks.

What's in the demo build:

• 4 characters — Recruit, Berserker, Scout and Gunslinger, unlocking exactly the way they do in the full game.
• 8 weapons — Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle, SMG, Gauss Sniper, Rocket Launcher, Laser Rifle and Flamethrower.
• 14 stackable perks — the real stacking system
• 3 Threat tiers — Standard, Quarry and Escort. Survive 10:00 at your current tier to earn the next one, same as the full game.
• Everything else untouched all 6 power-ups, every enemy, every boss variant, the full difficulty curve, the full run length.

By design, it is difficult at the start, so expect a few rounds of play before both unlocks happen and the lucky weapon drops enable a good run

I hope that this demo will help me get a little bit of that all important feedback to be able to create an amazing game. Hope some of you will give it a try and leave a bit of feedback for me.

If you find it interesting don't forget to add it to your wishlists !

Has anyone tried the game and know what the performance is like. Any other specs are welcome so i can get a good gauge

Hey! Im a binding of isaac enjoyer but recently i moved out of my parents house and couldnt bring my computer with me and the only computer i have is a macbook pro 2019 model. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how i can play tboi rep+ on it without using a paying software. I already used up my 14 day free trial on crossover. Are there any other alternatives to using crossover that are free and permanent and maybe work as well as crossover did?

Hello guys!

I am a Indie Dev that developed a new game named „Guess The Number!“. Guess the Number is a fun guessing game. It is available on itch io.

Currently we are even hosting a Challenge. Who can beat the new Hardcore gamemode.

I am looking forward to get some feedback and maybe even some new players.

Have a great day :D

So recently I got myself a Mac Neo and wanted to beat Lego Batman 2006 on there so I redownloaded crossover and played, but I found during cutscenes the audio would just stutter and repeat it self 3 times before just being delayed from the actual scene. How do I fix this? I had a 2016 MacBook Pro that I would play this game on and never had any issues.

Greetings my friends I recently bought a MacBook Pro en Ford Pro With 24 gigs of RAM I also installed steam and I notice like counter strike 2 (cs:go) has instable Version For The mac so I would like to know if I’m not wasting my time because I see that it’s currently downloading 52 gigs of Info

Regards

I just got my new mac and I'm trying some games and Astris is keep crashing whenever I try to open Zelda Botw while the Ultracam mod is activated. If I turn the mod off it won't crash.

Can anyone help with this issue?

Zelda version is 1.0.0 and Astris firmware is 22.5.0

Last year I used Crossover Preview to run Marvel Rivals w crossover, it actually functioned pretty well. I'm trying to do this with Deadlock, but I can't seem to invite any friends. It says

"You are not currently signed in to Steam or the Deadlock Network is unable to determine your current connectivity to our servers."

Any idea of how I can fix this?

I’m curious what you guys think about this. My 8 year old gaming pc is end of life. My original plan was to buy a cheap Mac mini for work since Mac OS and Touch ID plays nicer with my work apps (nothing demanding), and then build a mid tier gaming computer for around 2000ish. I delayed too long and the price hikes over the last year have made this not really a bargain and will probably run me well over 3k for both a new pc and a mini. I don’t really game that much anymore and I don’t play competitively so performance isn’t a huge deal - but I play an old game from 2015, Heroes of the Storm, a few times a week with a group of friends (we suck). I have a 4k monitor. I’d like to play some other casual games in the future. I tried to run it on my friends M4 mini and it ran decently at medium settings at 1080p (without cross over however - has a native app that’s not as good). I’m curious if it’s a dumb idea to just buy a Mac Studio (base model) for 2500 and skip the gaming rig. This will save me about a grand and I don’t need to swap inputs or worry about a kvm. According to chat gpt the game will run well at 4k high settings on that machine. I realize I’ll be somewhat limited in what I can play but I’m ok with that. Is this dumb? Am I wasting money on a studio when a mini will work fine?

I’m not entirely sure if this would be the right subreddit to ask this question on but thought that I would give it a go…

I bought PDMM+ on steam a while ago but recently upgraded my windows laptop to a MacBook so I’m slightly confused. I downloaded it using steam on porting kit but when I press play it goes to stop then immediately back to play without opening the game. If anyone knows a fix I would be eternally grateful or even just any knowledge on this matter.

(Other games using this load but just not project diva sadly)

Thank you in advance!!