[dee-bee]

I agree that gaming on mac is fairly grim, but I've been quite happy playing games on my 13" M1 macbook (air i think?). This excludes most AAA games, but I've certainly enjoyed Victoria 3 (and other paradox games). They don't seem to run much slower than on intel (which, granted, is typically worse than through wine or windows). Baldurs Gate 3 should be on it soon, I think. The mac market itself should shift pretty rapidly.

Edit: factorio and oxygen not included have both been pretty solid, too. I think factorio is even native.

[badsectoracula]

Well, yes, at the end of the day Macs are still general purpose computers and despite all the hoops Apple puts in place that developers have to jump through, you can still release programs - including games - for them. So they do have and - unless Apple really screws up things somewhere - will always have games.

But what you're writing is basically what Linux gamers were writing for many years - even before Valve started focusing on it too.

[alpaca128]

> Baldurs Gate 3 should be on it soon, I think

That's the one bad experience I had with the game - in Steam it is already marked as available on Mac OS but after downloading the 100GB it tells you that it's actually still the Early Access version (with incompatible save files!) and you have to wait till September for the actual game. Which meant another 110GB download on my fallback device.

[elbrian]

Rimworld is also great on an M1 MBP.