Control Command Escape

As a 30-something male, I'm pretty sure I'm not the target demographic for this game. It's about being a young girl at (a magical) school with all the drama that entails. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

A 2D stealth action game where you are a ninja out for revenge.

The classic 4X turn-based strategy, where you must colonise planets and build up a fleet of starships in an attempt…

Max Payne 3 should have been one of the best games available on Mac OS X, but a terrible port make it seem like a cash-grab and something to avoid.

You know those puzzles in adventure games that don't make any sense until after you've found the answer? All of those are in McPixel.

A point-and-click adventure where you switch between two interwoven stories, using items and magic to solve puzzles.

A first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic future, in the metro system beneath Moscow, where you must fend off mutated creatures and survive in a harsh environment.

A first person turn-based RPG in the spirit of previous games in the Might & Magic series.

Investigate a mystery spanning millennia as antiquities appraiser Malachai Rector, in this adventure written by Jane Jensen.

A top-down co-op stealth game where you and up to three others commit various heists.

The sixth game in the Total War series (and the third to be released on Mac OS X), Napoleon builds on its predecessors, adding improved visuals and AI to the strategy and tactical hybrid gameplay.

A platformer where you play as a creature of the void called Born, who is able to change the physical properties of the environment in various ways.

A tower defence game with all the trimmings, and ludicrous enemies to fend off.

A game that forces you to make some tough choices working as an immigration officer trying to support a family.

An isometric fantasy RPG, featuring pausable real-time combat. Pillars of Eternity is due for release in 2014.

Featuring what's possibly the most engaging, thought-provoking story ever seen in a computer game, Planescape: Torment is a symphonic RPG that hits all the right notes.

Undoubtedly the best game to grace Mac OS X in 2011, Portal 2 was released on all platforms simultaneously. It…

A point-and-click adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future with an emphasis on having puzzles solved through logic and exploration rather…

A magical experience that's less a game and more an art form, Proteus is an audiovisual gallery of minute delights.

From the creator of the Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island series, Psychonauts is the thinking man’s (or woman’s) platformer. Yes,…

A 2D platformer starring limbless hero Rayman is a tour de force in visual expression and abundance of gameplay.

A point-and-click adventure game where you control four characters in search of a vault containing important research belonging to a…

A city-builder where you control giants that terraform a planet and cultivate civilizations.

Manage a group of survivors as the found a fledgling colony at the edge of the galaxy, under the direction of an AI storyteller.