Baldur’s Gate 3 is an exemplary RPG that embraces the genre's tabletop roots. In it, your party is tainted with a mind flayer’s parasite, so you must fight the corruption or let the aberrant evil take over your minds. You do this by exploring Dungeons & Dragons' Forgotten Realms; battling creatures in flexible, turn-based combat; or exercising diplomacy in tense situations. Baldur’s Gate 3 embraces choice, so there is no wrong way to play.

Developer CD Projekt Red leverages Apple's Metal technology to deliver a high-quality port of its open-world action RPG. Based on Mike Pondsmith's tabletop role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077 is a bleak title that depicts a world where corporations, both foreign and domestic, maintain a stranglehold on military technology, healthcare, cybernetic advancements, drugs, and virtually anything the common person could want or need. Shoot, hack, and slice your way out of trouble across the sprawling, dystopian Night City. This package includes the Cyberpunk 2077 base game and its spy-thriller expansion, Phantom Liberty.

Hideo Kojima's trippy action game makes its way to macOS and includes the enhanced visuals and additional content from the PS5's Director's Cut. Don't let the combination of environmental traversal, third-person shooting, and quirky storytelling throw you for a loop. This unique marriage results in a thrilling package-delivery simulator that's well worth your time.

In Mankind Divided's future time, humanity has embraced machine augmentation, creating a dystopian world of cybernetically enhanced people—and a wary population that hates them. Adam Jensen, a special operative armed to the teeth with cyber-weaponry, must unravel a worldwide conspiracy that endangers the global populace. As an action-RPG, Mankind Divided lets you customize Jensen to play as aggressively or evasively as you like. Careful exploration unearths alternate routes within a level, giving you tremendous replay value.

If the idea of building and managing factories sounds like a bore, think again. Factorio blends real-time strategy, survival, and resource management to create an engrossing and addictive game loop. Scavenge materials to create tools and machines, which you can then use to acquire advanced materials to construct new projects.

Grip the wheel and burn rubber in this motorsport game that delivers thrilling arcade-style racing and a robust single-player story. Even better, GRID's Nemesis system creates hyperaggressive AI drivers that deliberately sabotage you based on how you interacted with them in previous races. If you need a change of pace, you can customize tracks to define routes, rules, and obstacles.

Lies of P is a Souls-like action-RPG that pits you against monsters in brutally unforgiving combat. You play as Pinocchio, a puppet who awakens amidst a tumultuous automaton revolt within the city of Krat. Madness has taken the survivors, and killer machines lurk around every corner. Master the parry system to riposte foes, and save what little humanity is left in Krat—as you make sense of your own.

No Man’s Sky is no longer the buggy, underwhelming space adventure it was at release. Developer Hello Games improved every game facet so it now has enhanced graphics and an overwhelming amount of content, including crafting, space battles, and trading. No Man’s Sky has cross-save functionality between the Windows and Mac versions, too.

Return to Raccoon City and relive the zombie-riddled horror in this spectacular remake. The original Resident Evil 2, released back in 1998, has enjoyed numerous ports and rereleases to date. That said, the 2019 remake is easily the best iteration of Resident Evil 2, and is one of the best games in the series. It delivers a satisfying middle ground between RE1's methodical combat and RE4's full-blown action, making it a must-play for horror fans.

Ethan Winters faces unspeakable horrors as he searches for his kidnapped daughter in a derelict European village. This first-person action game takes you through the countryside's beast-infested dirt roads and into the depths of a vampire-haunted castle. Puzzle out where you need to go, and gun down any shambling abomination that gets in your way.

Capcom modernized its earlier Resident Evil entries to critical acclaim. Resident Evil 4, however, was a landmark game for the franchise thanks to its genre-redefining third-person action. The idea or remaking a masterpiece raised many an eyebrow. Thankfully, Capcom updated the visuals, modernized controls, and streamlined the experience without sacrificing anything that made the original so outstanding. The Resident Evil 4 remake doesn't redefine shooters as it did back in 2005, but it delivers an action-packed adventure that is just as fun to play as the original.

Search for the Lost City of Kitezh as the legendary Lara Croft in this third-person action game. A brotherhood of military zealots also seek the city and fight Lara tooth and nail to reach it first. Craft and upgrade your gear, master movement and stealth to ambush enemies, and solve brain-teasing puzzles as you search for the lost city.

Resident Evil 7 reinvigorated Capcom's survival-horror franchise back in 2017 by dialing back the action in exchange for white-knuckle suspense. By slowing down the action and committing to a first-person perspective, Capcom injected some much-needed freshness into the series, while also capturing the dread and thrills that made Resident Evil so iconic in the first place. Amazing atmosphere, thoughtful combat, and excellent pacing add up to a fantastic horror game fans Mac gamers should absolutely play.

Play as an adorable stray cat in a post-apocalyptic world where mankind is on the verge of extinction and only machine wardens remain. You're separated from your fellow felines and must explore an ancient underground cityscape maintained by the robots. Explore, solve puzzles, evade capture, and unravel the mystery behind humanity’s demise, while searching for a way back to the surface.

Think Viking Minecraft, and you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Valheim. The game offers rich resource-gathering and crafting depth, as well as unforgiving combat inspired by Norse myth. Yet, it is also brilliantly balanced and well-paced. You aren't bogged down by excessive resource management or frustrating crafting limits, and the challenge always feels fair. These unique twists make Valheim an enthralling game to enjoy solo or with friends.

Not just another free-to-play gacha game, Wuthering Waves sets itself apart from the crowded action-RPG pack with excellent action, expansive environments, and an awesome aesthetic. Combat focuses on tight, Bayonetta-like evasion; weapon-clashing parries; Nioh-style soul-summoning; and energetic, tag-based assists similar to Zenless Zone Zero. Exploration is highly satisfying as well: You can climb and run up walls, Wuxia-style, and a handy flight ability lets you soar across the map to locate new challenges and treasure.