Popular Cat Adventure Game 'Stray' Coming to the Mac

[krspkbl]

Between this and No Man's Sky coming to Macs, this is turning into a surprisingly good year for Mac gaming.

Both are good games but if this is a good year for Mac gaming then that says a lot.

Apple are going to have to do a lot better if they want gaming to be taken seriously on Mac.

 

[mrparker]

Blame Apple for making the platform difficult to develop on. If you want new games on macOS, let Apple know and tell them to convince game developers to come back, which good luck because the divesting of OpenGL and killing 32 bit app support was enough to steer game developers away.

Also the platform only providing a proprietary graphics API rather than supporting Vulkan - which is where the rest of the industry is heading towards to replace the aging OpenGL.

If Apple just focused their support on open standards rather than on heightening the barriers for entry, it'd be a lot better overall for the Mac.

I wouldn't be surprised if most developers just use a Vulkan to Metal library to support Apple's systems, anyways (provided they make their own engines).

 

[Black Magic]

My girlfriend and I beat the game a few weeks back on the PS5. Great game with an interesting story!

 

[RalfTheDog]

I feel my productivity suddenly being destroyed.

 

[Solomani]

Friendly reminder: This game has a meow button

I repeat, THERE IS A DEDICATED BUTTON JUST FOR MEOWING

I pressed the Meow button on your screenshot. It did nothing. No sound. No meow.

Cat's got your tongue?

 

[GhostRaider]

Stray is a good game. Played it on PS5. Just wish it was longer though. Definitely falls into the "Essential Games" category for the Mac if you haven't played it.

 

[svish]

Glad to hear that more games are coming to Mac.

 

[falkon-engine]

Looks good. I think what some developers are missing is the fact that a game such as this might have a higher % of Mac users because of the scarcity of this type of content. There are plenty of Macs in use, so the audience should be sizable.

This seems like a game for Mac users.

 

[dannydan]

Odd choice that they're not taking it to other consoles

Probably because of some deal with Sony.

 

[yegon]

Not a cat lover (or hater), but I really enjoyed this game on PS5. You meet some…curious characters along the way.

 

[MindYourMind]

My goodness, can't put Stray on my mac, because if I do I'll lose my mac to my wife..😅

 

[sunny5]

Blame Apple for making the platform difficult to develop on. If you want new games on macOS, let Apple know and tell them to convince game developers to come back, which good luck because the divesting of OpenGL and killing 32 bit app support was enough to steer game developers away.

+ Poor Apple GPU's performance
+ Pathetic Metal API
+ Expensive computers
+ No killer titles on Mac
+ Worst compatibility
+ No interests in Mac instead mobile
+ Poor Mac platform itself
+ Very limited amount of Mac gamers
+ Lack investment
+ Limited power consumption = low performance = no overclocking
+ Useless and meaningless higher power mode
+ And more...

 

[star-affinity]

This was actually pretty great on playstation... however, one reason why I will almost certainly NOT buy it for Mac is that most Mac versions of neat games that I've played on a different platform before, sucked hard.

This can be a problem. But it's not always that way. I hope the tools Apple provides nowadays makes this even less so, and it seems Metal helps and espeially the features in Metal 3.

+ Poor Apple GPU's performance
+ Pathetic Metal API
+ Expensive computers
+ No killer titles on Mac
+ Worst compatibility
+ No interests in Mac instead mobile
+ Poor Mac platform itself
+ Very limited amount of Mac gamers
+ Lack investment
+ Limited power consumption = low performance = no overclocking
+ Useless and meaningless higher power mode
+ And more...

Why is the Metal API pathetic? Metal 3 seems pretty capable to me.

 

[starman111]

Do I need a controller for this?

Nope. I played it on my PC using a keyboard and mouse. It works great that way.

 

[zapmymac]

To win game: have cat puke on mutant bacteria that’s on the rugs! 🤣😼

 

[zapmymac]

Friendly reminder: This game has a meow button

I repeat, THERE IS A DEDICATED BUTTON JUST FOR MEOWING

Same with my girlfriend…

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Not a big gamer, but I'm getting this one. 😻😻😻

 

[ikir]

THIS IS HUGE

 

[star-affinity]

@bLackjackj Feel free to elaborate on why you dislaked my post. I'm prepared to change my mind if I'm wrong.

Why is Metal that bad?

 

[Pezimak]

I hope this trend continues and mac becomes an alternative platform for AAA gaming.

It won't, even Gabe Newell gets fed up with Apple, they spent years literally negotiating with Apple to bring Steam to the platform. And even then only a handful of games work natively. He said they would talk with Apple, the team there would be all excited and make all these promises and nothing would happen, then a new team at Apple would take over and the exact same thing they negotiate, make promises and then nothing. Year after year. And then they killed 32 bit apps..

Apple could literally not care less about Mac gaming, it makes token gestures and that's all, after all they are making literally billions from the biggest gaming platform on the planet, mobile.

 

[JordanNZ]

Also the platform only providing a proprietary graphics API rather than supporting Vulkan - which is where the rest of the industry is heading towards to replace the aging OpenGL.

If Apple just focused their support on open standards rather than on heightening the barriers for entry, it'd be a lot better overall for the Mac.

I wouldn't be surprised if most developers just use a Vulkan to Metal library to support Apple's systems, anyways (provided they make their own engines).

Outside of ID and Valve, almost no one is using Vulkan. It’s DX12 in Windows land, and Sonys API on PS5.

All of the recent announcements/releases are targeting metal 3 directly.

 

[galad]

Apple has got its fault. But the fact that in 15 years Valve couldn't get someone to update their games to 64bit, which isn't even an hard thing to do, and that Steam is such a train wreck is not Apple's fault.
And let's not talk about the fact that Steam still lists many 64bit games as 32bit, and says they can't be used when they just run fine.

 

[MJaP]

Some Mac users will still be unable to play the game...

 

[darngooddesign]

Now I really believe Apple will bring finally AAA games to MAC...

This is a misconception. 3rd party developers, not Apple, are the ones who would bring AAA games to the Mac.

 

[darngooddesign]

Both are good games but if this is a good year for Mac gaming then that says a lot.

Apple are going to have to do a lot better if they want gaming to be taken seriously on Mac.

Whether we go from "one" to "many" depends entirely on the consumer reaction to "a few", and it's ok to be excited about a few and the possibility of a few more.