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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.

Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if steam will make a proton for mac.

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I used to play so many of their games. The Escape Velocity series was great. And I remember one called Slithereens. Oh the nostalgia!

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah apparently, or at least mac users with steam installed

Yup, I play a few on my work laptop (not my choice of hardware/software). A lot of stuff doesn't work, but as an occasional time-waster when I'm taking a break, it works okay.

I mostly just play quick Risk matches, but there's an okay selection of games. It basically feels like Steam on Linux back when they first launched the Linux client before Proton a thing. It kinda sucks, but there's enough selection for what I need it for.

These days I just keep my Steam Deck at my desk and play games that way instead. But before I got my Steam Deck, I played natively on macOS.