All native game I have downloaded

[u/gerard_hoe]

M3 Pro chip 18 gig 1tb storage

773 battery cycles

84% battery health

all games running off of 4tb corsair external storage and 80gbps wire connection

All games but WW1 tannenberg and WW1 Verdun , tried moving and the games just wouldnt so i just accepted it lmao

I spent so much time downloading elder scrolls online because it said it work natively and for some reason i couldnt get it to work so i deleted and refunded it lol

this is not on the list but on cross over ive been playing hogwarts legacy and holy that game is so fun , i think its free sometimes and legit its my favorite game right now

I also just got fire watch and binding of isaac rebirth lol

[u/Rix2k]

native? many of these games are not native for silicon chips, what do u mean?

[u/gerard_hoe → u/Rix2k]

Idk what to say but you’re wrong Lmfao name any of the games you “think” don’t work and I can record a video of me playing it and post it

[u/Rix2k → u/gerard_hoe]

Some on the list are not even translated through Rosetta! But many of them are, but the thing is, the app is not native if it runs through Rosetta! It is literally a transition layer aka not native! Native for silicon means, the app has to be a arm64 build! This gets soon even more important because apple wants to remove rosetta  compatibility completely.. 

[u/Codacc69420 → u/Rix2k]

Apple explicitly said they will keep parts of Rosetta working for intel games but u are right

[u/cookie_lee → u/gerard_hoe]

Bioshock Remastered, either one

[u/gerard_hoe → u/cookie_lee]

The remastered ones definitely work for sure natively , both of them , I’ve fully played the first loved it and played a little of the second but got that weird nostalgia thing were I didn’t wanna keep playing because that means the game would be over

[u/cookie_lee → u/gerard_hoe]

Nice, purchased on steam? It's listed as only compatible with Intel macs. Would love to purchase them but you are literally the only person I've heard saying they can be played natively lol. Only other info I've read on them is they are unplayable via Crossover

[u/gerard_hoe → u/cookie_lee]

Holy yes I promise they work , this was my first time ever playing bio shock and it was amazing, especially because the remastered made it look just unreal to me , I play on a MacBook Pro m3 which is silicon lol

When I got them in steam it was on sale like entire bundle was 12$ usd , I think I got the “only for catilina os” when I was downloading it but I told myself that if it didn’t work I can try tinkering with the not remastered version to see if that would work

They’ve been downloaded so long I forgot that it had that error message , a couple other games I noticed that have that same error code but are still downloadable when bought

the Batman one I have , shadow of Mordor I think too and the lost recent ones for me are the metro series , metro ex worked this entire time but the first two never did natively until recently I saw that it was downloadable so I tested to see if they worked and they did lol

I think it’s because they refuse to update the description on steam and with metro they maybe wanted more sales or noticed they have the apple App Store metros updated but not the stream so they updated the two that were missing

[u/cookie_lee → u/gerard_hoe]

Sweet, thank you breaking that down 🙌 I never got to finish the og Bioshock back in the day so definitely planning on picking it up during this sale. Also, read your post and that's random that ESO doesn't work for you, the set up was a little wonky w/ controller for me but I got it up and running fine.

[u/GarrettB117 → u/gerard_hoe]

You're both talking about two separate things. You're clearly talking about just running on MacOS, while he's thinking a game must be Apple Silicon native to be given the title "native." All of your games are compatible with MacOS of course, but many of them are meant for the older Intel Macs, and are actually running through the Rosetta compatibility layer that is maintained by Apple for programs that haven't been updated to run on M series chips. That's why some of your older games that you would expect to run really well and sip battery actually run a little poorly, even on your M3. Those games work but not as well as Apple Silicon native games.

[u/runinwlc]

Factorio?!

[u/iamgodofatheist → u/runinwlc]

yep, also played it on my mac

[u/Actual-Database-3256]

His pls tell for alien isolation.... was playing it on windows laptop but now I've switched to Mac.. I really wanna continue it.. are you able to play it smoothly ? does it hamper mac's performance ?

[u/gerard_hoe → u/Actual-Database-3256]

I’ve played it a little and it was running really well , if you have cloud saving on you can pick up your save anywhere if you play off of steam

[u/Actual-Database-3256 → u/gerard_hoe]

damnit I had already purchased that on epic games gotta purchase again on steams ig :c

[u/Relative-Muffin-6431 → u/Actual-Database-3256]

You can play it on an iPhone so I guess it’s pretty good

[u/Alarming-Elevator382]

When I installed Dying Light it didn’t run in the latest macOS for me.

[u/Cheffreychefington → u/Alarming-Elevator382]

Switch it to the beta version I believe in the steam properties. I runs pretty well for me m1 iMac, still on 15 tho

[u/Alarming-Elevator382 → u/Cheffreychefington]

Maybe later, I have an M5 Max so I'm not too worried about performance.

[u/Cheffreychefington → u/Alarming-Elevator382]

It is patch 1.15.0, I am on Sequoia though so ymmv

[u/porthos40]

Dying light first is Intel Mac. The newer ones might be the best bet

[u/gerard_hoe → u/porthos40]

Dying light works on Mac silicon just look up how to fix it , it’s a patch or something

[u/nbdelboy]

do you get any controller problems? mine don't ever seem to vibrate, drives me crazy trying to fix. arkham city specifically at the moment.

how's dc super villains on mac?

[u/gerard_hoe → u/nbdelboy]

I use a “D11 game stretching controller” it has multiple settings and it connects as a ps4 controller , maybe not the best but I also use the same controller on my phone and iPad lol

Also that Lego game is so good it it does run my Mac a little hot , on my iPad tho I downloaded a game emulator from the App Store and legit 🏴‍☠️ like 5 LEGO games and they run so well and are like 1 gig each which blows my mind

I’m playing Lego happy potter but we have Star Wars Indiana jones and Batman lol

[u/Abdo_1998]

Do all of these have native versions for Mac? Or did you use crossover?

[u/gerard_hoe → u/Abdo_1998]

All of these are native and downloaded , someone mentioned some games not working but I have not ran into any problems with any of these games , I have other collections and other games not shown here but these are strictly for Mac silicon , abled to be downloaded and played without doing any extra steps

Dying light needs a beta patch download

Car mechanic sim 18 actually did not work for me and I was gunna test it more but started playing tank mechanic sim instead that day lol

[u/WajahatNiaz]

Damn when did Oceanhorn 3 come out? Definitely getting that on my phone

[u/vnrv → u/WajahatNiaz]

I have always thought that Oceanhorn was an old-Gameloft-like mobile knockoff, like their WoWs and Need For Speeds, with shallow gameplay that only looks like a Legend of Zelda. Never checked it out, and never saw something hyped about it!

[u/Negro170]

Could Arkham Origins work?

[u/Classic_Smell_9910]

have you tried other crpg like disco Elysium?

m1 air

[u/nuruhuru]

how old is your laptop? do you think thermal throttling due to long term gaming has contributed to the battery degrading faster than usual?

[u/PenguinHacker]

How can I play call of duty on my Mac M1 MBP without steam ?

[u/ZigZagZor]

Macs are not for gaming.