FPS games for M1 Mac?
September 3, 2022 8:21 AM Subscribe
I’m not going to buy a new PC / console but I do like to play the odd singleplayer FPS when the mood takes me. However, I only own a new M1 Mac. Are there any games of this type available? It’s hard to search Steam / GoG stores because they don’t let you combine specific filters as far as I can tell; and because lots of games won’t run on 64-bit Macs (often not clear from the system reqs)
Best answer: I'm currently running Borderlands 2 (from Steam store) and Borderlands 3 (from Epic store). They both run well on my 2017-era iMac. From the system requirements, I'm not seeing anything that excludes an M1 Mac.
posted by SPrintF at 10:11 AM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by SPrintF at 10:11 AM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Steam preferences has a "platform preferences" section which lets you tell it to "only" show you MacOS-compatible games. I say "only" because there's a bunch of views and carousels throughout the store that don't obey this, BUT it definitely helps. I have that set and when I go to the FPS category everything in the tabbed lists (new & trending etc.) is MacOS compatible.
FPS isn't my genre usually but Prodeus is a Mac-compatible boomer shooter (Doom-style) that is super fun. It's in early access but is largely complete, at least to my satisfaction.
posted by wemayfreeze at 10:36 AM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
FPS isn't my genre usually but Prodeus is a Mac-compatible boomer shooter (Doom-style) that is super fun. It's in early access but is largely complete, at least to my satisfaction.
posted by wemayfreeze at 10:36 AM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
Apple Silicon Games might be useful (almost all major games have to run through Rosetta, which is annoying but works well enough in some cases).
posted by malevolent at 12:32 PM on September 3, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by malevolent at 12:32 PM on September 3, 2022 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Bioshock Remastered from the Steam Library plays like a treat on my M1 Mac Mini. Boy, it'd be sweet it Valve bothered to update their source engine games to 64 bit compatibility, though. It's only been 3 years, y'all.
Honestly, the sort of mild annoyance with Valve is that the Steam Launcher is still x86 and all the Steam APIs are still x86, so I guess there's sort of a catch-22 for game devs who would want to upgrade to ARM native in Steam's storefront, since there's some library compatibility shenanigans that would end up with everything running through Rosetta anyway, I guess?
posted by Kyol at 3:23 PM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
Honestly, the sort of mild annoyance with Valve is that the Steam Launcher is still x86 and all the Steam APIs are still x86, so I guess there's sort of a catch-22 for game devs who would want to upgrade to ARM native in Steam's storefront, since there's some library compatibility shenanigans that would end up with everything running through Rosetta anyway, I guess?
posted by Kyol at 3:23 PM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I'm running Borderlands 3 from Epic on my M1 Macbook Pro and it looks good enough. My computer certainly gets very hot, so I wouldn't really play this on my lap.
posted by MonsieurBon at 4:25 PM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by MonsieurBon at 4:25 PM on September 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
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Others will hopefully have more to say about available single player FPS titles, not really my genre.
posted by snuffleupagus at 8:59 AM on September 3, 2022