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432 games we have reviewed that run on macOS, best first.

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DREDGE

A fishing-and-exploration horror hybrid that reviewers rate Overwhelmingly Positive and keep recommending anyway, even while its single loudest, most consistent critique — a spectacular opening that the game never quite develops — shows up inside a striking share of its own five-star reviews.

8 / 10

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Dwarf Fortress

A genre-defining colony sim capable of genuinely unmatched emergent storytelling, undercut by a UI that even loyal thousand-hour players still call clunky, a brutal onboarding curve, and real, well-documented performance and bug problems that persist years after its celebrated Steam release.

8 / 10

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EVE Online

A single-shard spaceship MMO where losses are permanent, the economy is entirely player-built, and your character keeps training on a real-world clock whether you're logged in or not. Twenty-three years old, recently rebranded by its own studio, and still the sharpest argument in the genre for why risk has to be real to mean anything.

8 / 10

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Factory Town 2: Paradise

Erik Asmussen rebuilds his own factory-town formula from the ground up around a controllable avatar, a hungry volcano deity and a full ocean of islands — a sequel that risks alienating veterans of the original in its opening hours before proving, mechanic by mechanic, that almost every change was worth making.

8 / 10

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Idle Iktah

A free incremental RPG that hides a genuinely deep skill web behind a calm Pacific Northwest setting — and then puts a price on the one resource an idle game trades in, time away.

8 / 10

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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

A coming-of-age sci-fi RPG about growing up on an alien world across ten years and card- battle skill checks, praised by a huge share of its own audience as genuinely moving, undercut for a specific minority by a replay-driven structure several reviewers say betrays its own central promise that choices carry across lives.

8 / 10

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Ledgerbound

A narrative-driven tactical RPG about an insurance adjuster who has to deny a claim and save the world, mixing Fire Emblem-style grid combat with a fully voiced dating-sim layer and a time-management system some players find liberating and others find punishing.

8 / 10

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Lies of P

A Belle Époque retelling of Pinocchio that wears its Bloodborne influence on its sleeve, then earns the comparison with a weapon-assembly system and a guard-timing mechanic good enough to stand on their own.

8 / 10

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Metro Exodus

A well-regarded, atmospheric post-apocalyptic shooter whose reputation was genuinely damaged by a real 2019 Epic Games Store exclusivity controversy and a cluster of specific, long-unfixed bugs — but whose negative reviews have declined sharply since, consistent with a history that's now largely settled rather than an ongoing problem.

8 / 10

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Mindustry

A factory game where your conveyor belts double as your ammo supply, so a bottleneck in copper isn't a spreadsheet problem, it's a hole in your wall. Free and open source on Android and itch.io, a paid one-off on Steam, and one of the most distinctive marriages of automation and tower defence around.

8 / 10

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Mudborne - Frog Management Sim

A genetics-driven frog-breeding sim from one half of the APICO team, built around discovering and cross-breeding dozens of frog species across a waking and a dreaming world -- beautifully drawn and warmly received, with real friction in its navigation, inventory and pacing that a year and a half of updates hasn't fully resolved.

8 / 10

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Necesse

A top-down sandbox RPG that spent six years in Early Access building the one system that actually separates it from the Terraria-likes around it — recruit settlers, hand them jobs, and your colony keeps working while you're off fighting something in a cave.

8 / 10

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Nova Drift

An ARPG's worth of build synergy packed into an Asteroids cabinet, at thirteen dollars and 96% positive. The one thing standing between it and everybody is the control scheme — and that's a deliberate choice the game is literally named after.

8 / 10

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Pillars of Eternity

The game that brought the isometric party RPG back from the dead, and spent a decade being judged against a memory of Baldur's Gate rather than on its own terms. Fewer than half its buyers finish Act I — but the ones who push through average eighty hours.

8 / 10

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Rubinite

Cup Dog Games' debut strips the Soulslike down to nothing but boss fights, built around a Focus-and-Mark system that turns every encounter into a duel over who blinks first — and then asks its best players to do the whole thing again without getting hit once.

8 / 10

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Rust

Eight years after release and still getting a major update every month, Rust remains the most uncompromising survival game ever made — and the one whose own veterans write the funniest negative reviews about how much of their lives it took.

8 / 10

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Sandustry

A falling-sand physics factory game — every grain, drop and spark is a simulated resource — that went into Early Access on 13 August 2026 to a near-unanimous reception, backed by Hooded Horse and pre-release press comparing it to Factorio, Terraria and Noita all at once.

8 / 10

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Sephiria

A top-down action-roguelite from the studio behind Dungreed, built around a Tetris-style artifact inventory that turns loadout planning into its own puzzle game — dense, generous with content, and let down late by a damage-sponge final boss and a steep endgame DPS wall.

8 / 10

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