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Home Latest Video The Bests Highlight Reel Reviews Impressions Cosplay The 12 Best Games for Mac Kotaku Staff 112217 2:00PM Filed to: The bests The bests Mac Kotaku Core 12 bests 415 28 Illustration by Sam Woolley Hey, look A sleek computer with a piece of fruit embossed on it.

Contrary to popular belief, theres loads of games to be played on Apple computers.

Advertisement In the six years since Civilization V came out, we managed to review it not once but twice.

Thats how much these games lend themselves to playing and replaying, and Civ VI is no different.

The latest entry adds a lot of new ideas to the Firaxiss tried-and-true formula, and while some new ideas work better than others, the whole is as usual more than the sum of its parts.

The mechanical tweaks and refinements are wrapped up in a subtle, board-game-like aesthetic that is as pleasing on your twentieth hour as it was on your tenth.

A Good Match For: Civ fans, people who have never played a Civ game, basically anyone who doesnt actively hate Civ.

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Purchase From: Steam Mac App Store Advertisement In Hitman, a simple setup paves the way for an unusually complex game.

Maybe youre in a Paris fashion show, maybe youre in the market outside a Moroccan embassy.

Maybe youre in a sprawling Italian villa, maybe a posh Bangkok hotel.

Wherever you are, youll likely be impressed by Hitman s painstakingly detailed clockwork communities as they tick along, inviting you to explore and exploit them.

The main story assassinations are the tip of the iceberg here, as repeatable escalations, player-made challenges, and miss-and-you-fail elusive targets round out a supremely satisfying collection of sneaking, costumery, and espionage challenges.

Yes, Blood Money was great, but this new Hitman represents a pinnacle for the series.

A Good Match For: Fans of classic spy movies, people who like playing dress-up, meticulous folks who love hatching a plan.

Purchase From: Steam Advertisement Youre alone on an island, surrounded by puzzles.

Thats The Witness, an extremely complicated game that is really very simple.

Some of the puzzles are obvious: Theyre on screens right in front of you, stacked in orderly rows.

All of them will stymie and confound you, but over time youll gradually dismantle them until the games grand design is laid out in front of you like the workings of a finely crafted watch.

Some games make you level up your character to access new areas; this one makes you level up yourself.

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