In another quiet month for Mac news, this has been a good month for game releases. A nice long list with a lot of puzzle based adventures, detective stories, and mysteries. There’s some notable action, life-sim, and strategy games too, but this month is more for the puzzle fans. In other non-news it is good to see Pocket City 2 make its way into Apple Arcade; a fun city builder. Anyhow, this is what caught my eye from the latest Mac games.
4D Intuition
“Build your intuition for four-dimensional space, starting with walking and jumping. Master a wide variety of interactions and solve challenging 4D Sokoban-style puzzles.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Alaris
“Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.”
macOS • Windows • Linux • SteamOS
Available from Steam, and Itch.
Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division
“Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.”
macOS • Windows • Linux • SteamOS
Available from Steam.
Desktop Explorer
“Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Dimhaven – The Lost Source
“Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Dorfromantik
Now available on macOS.
“Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!”
macOS • Windows • Switch • PlayStation • Xbox
macOS version available from Steam.
Other versions also from GOG, and console stores.
Also available as a board game.
The Incident at Galley House
“In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.”
macOS • Windows • Linux • SteamOS
Available from Steam.
Looking For Fael
“Hello, this is Fael… Listen, this is going to sound strange, but… I think I’m lost in the apartment. Right now… I… I don’t know where I am. Can you come and help me?”
macOS • Windows • Switch • PlayStation • Xbox
Available from Steam, and console stores.
The Mermaid Mask
“An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.”
macOS • Windows • Switch • PlayStation
Available from Steam, and console stores.
The Message from Deep Space
“Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Now available on macOS.
“A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.”
macOS • Windows • Switch • PlayStation • Xbox • iOS • iPadOS • tvOS • visionOS
macOS version available from the App Store.
Other versions from GOG, Steam, Epic, console and mobile stores.
Moonlight Peaks
“Welcome to your new vampiric life in the magical town of Moonlight Peaks. Raise mystical crops, learn spell-casting and potion-making, and befriend – or even romance – the local werewolves, witches, and mermaids in this heartwarming supernatural life-sim. Eternity awaits!”
macOS • Windows • Switch • Android
Available from Steam, console and mobile stores.
Omen Exitio: Hunger
“A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Palworld
“Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called “Pals” in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!”
macOS • Windows • PlayStation • Xbox
macOS version available from the App Store.
Other versions from Steam, and console stores.
Pathogenic
“You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host’s immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.”
macOS • Windows • Linux • SteamOS
Available from Steam.
Rubinite
“In this dark fantasy boss rush, use Ruby’s crimson eyes to expose the weak points of the Bloodstained monsters, then strike and shatter them. Carve a road home through the ruined Scarlet Kingdom and face the Witch who took it all.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Seed (EARLY ACCESS)
“SEED is a persistent, player-driven life and MMO simulation. We’re launching in Early Access because real society needs real people! Join early and get a chance to be one of the first to shape this ever-evolving new world.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Klang Games.
Swordless
“A broken sword… The left hand controls the hilt, the right hand guides the blade. They work together to reach the end, and unite as one!”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam.
Wiseman: No More Breakups
“Fight through a moving train in a stylish rhythm-combat boss rush where timed four-button inputs become your attacks. Defeat absurd bosses, survive relationship chaos, and help August Wiseman get his phone back.”
macOS • Windows
Available from Steam, and the App Store.
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