Best Steam Gamesa Avalable For Mac
How to purchase microsoft word for mac. It was originally released as a standalone game in 2008 and we still cannot talk about the best free games for Mac without mentioning Team Fortress 2.
On the contrary, even without booting to Windows, the games available for the OS X are quite numerous and thanks to both Apple's own App Store and Valve's Steam, Mac owners can now turn their Mac into a gaming computer—albeit one with a limited library of good games. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of first person shooters, or FPS titles that run natively on the Mac OS X.
You can pick any of these games up through Valve's Steam platform or through the App Store. We'd recommend the former, if only to keep all your games in one place. Picking them up on Steam will also allow you to install and play those games on the PC without having to buy them twice.
I love my MacBook (2008, aluminum, Intel processor with the low-end nVidia chipset). I don't like running Windows. I don't want a Windows Bootcamp partition, because I found I never used it. (I really only used it for Oblivion, and even then stopped eventually because I enjoyed it more on the XBox, and hated the reboot-into-Windows process.) I'm using WINE to run Fallout and Fallout 2, with great success. I also have the Steam client, which I've used to get Portal and a second copy of Civ IV (+ addons, mostly so I didn't need the DVD with me). What I want to know is, can I buy a Windows game from the Steam client for the Mac, and then run it via WINE?
If so, do I need to take any special precautions? (For instance, my current winecfg emulates a 640x480 desktop to enable Fallout and Fallout 2.). Unfortunately, I don't believe Steam for OS X will let you even download a Windows app you buy through Steam. I suppose you could drag and drop the game files, and then restore the game from the copied files, but I'm not sure whether that works between platforms. And because Steam usually tries to launch all Steam games itself (at least on Windows), I don't think it would be possible to force a game to run under Wine unless Steam itself consents. You may be able to run non-DRMed games directly by double-clicking the executable, but I am unsure about this. I would recommend.
Using Wine, it allows you to download PC versions of your games and run them regularly through Wine. I've attempted this for Torchlight II, but YMMV depending on the game. First, install winetricks and Steam dependencies: • Save as a file named winetricks, in ~/wine/bin or wherever wine is saved.
• Navigate to the directory you saved it in in Terminal and type 'chmod +x winetricks'. • In that same Terminal window, type 'winetricks tahoma' and let it run, and afterwards 'winetricks flash'. Flash might try install twice; let it install both times. Then install Steam. • • Navigate to your Downloads folder in Terminal and type 'wine start SteamInstall.msi'.
If an 'installation ended prematurely' error pops up, ignore it, it should be fine. And finally, run Steam. • Navigate to the folder where Steam.exe is located in Terminal (probably ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam) and type 'wine Steam.exe' into Terminal.
• Wait for Steam to update, and log in as you would normally. To run games, download them via PC Steam.
Dependencies should install to the Wine folders. Alternatively, you can use It's essentially the same process, but packaged.
I haven't used it myself, so I'm afraid I can't elaborate on details, but it appears to be viable.