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Here at Recombu Towers we’ve been huge fans of point n’ click adventures since the days of Maniac Mansion. For a while at the turn of the millennium, it seemed as if adventure games were as dead as dust, but thankfully they’ve enjoyed a recent resurgence. Now fresh new puzzle titles are emerging on the likes of Steam and GOG, while classics are being remastered for re-release.
So what are the best point and click games and puzzle-stuffed adventure titles that you can play on Mac computers in 2017? Here’s our pick of our favourites.
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Best Mac adventure games: Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park is a shiny new adventure game from Ron Gilbert, the genius behind some of the best point and click titles ever conceived. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: all Gilbert’s babies.
This new adventure stars a colourful cast (including a foul-mouthed clown and the most sarcastic federal agent of all time) and thrusts them into a twisty-turny murder mystery. As you explore the titular town and its surroundings, you’ll uncover sinister secrets about the various residents. But while the story is surprisingly dark, there’s a healthy dose of humour to lighten proceedings. Plus, the endings is all-out bonkers insane.
Check out our in-depth Thimbleweed Park review.
Best Mac adventure games: Syberia 3
If you don’t mind a gentle pace, Syberia 3 is a rewarding and rather epic adventure for Mac that has just been released on Steam.
Once again you’re thrust into Kate Walker’s well-insulated boots, as she helps a native tribe to migrate with their herd across a harsh, unforgiving landscape. A task that’s made much more difficult by the authorities, who frown upon such movements. Not to mention the dogged PI in hot pursuit, with aspirations of dragging her back to NYC.
Gorgeous graphics and a rather amusing cast of characters help Syberia 3 to really stand out from the adventure gaming crowd. We especially love the automotons, which are seriously creative. The game’s plot is engaging throughout the long running time, while the puzzles are just as clever and interesting as those in the last two Syberia titles.
Don’t worry if you haven’t played Kate Walker’s previous adventures, as Syberia 3 can definitely be played as a stand-alone title. Many of the references early on may be lost on you, so an understanding of the overarching plot is a definite plus, but it’s certainly no biggie.
Although we experienced a few technical glitches here and there, and the control scheme is definitely better suited to a controller, this is definitely a game well worth adding to any adventure fans’ library.
Best Mac adventure games: Day of the Tentacle
Day of the Tentacle will be well-known to anyone who appreciates a good point n’ click title. This classic adventure from Tim Schafer features a maniacal purple limb attempting to take over the world by means of a time travelling device, and only three geeky friends can help to stop his sinister plot.
With updated graphics and audio, the remastered version of Day of the Tentacle is the shiniest version of this amazing adventure around. However, it’s worth playing again simply for the brain-taxing puzzles and hilarious one-liners.
Best Mac adventure games: Obduction
If you like the Myst titles, you’ll love Obduction. This is a fresh new Myst game in all but title, offering stunning environments to explore and complex, multi-layered puzzles that are well integrated into those worlds. We love how the game characters are presented in full motion video too, rather than rendered efforts.
Be warned, however: Obduction is a serious performance hog. Our Macbook Pro test machine is the most powerful version you can buy right now, yet we still had to scale back the graphics to avoid stammers and pauses. It’s no wonder when you check out those graphics of course. And the good news is, even on medium settings, the game looks absolutely gorgeous.
Best Mac adventure games: Gemini Rue
If you want a hard-hitting sci-fi adventure game with a tight plot and interesting characters, check out Gemini Rue from developer Wadjet Eye. Wadjet has a strong back catalogue in fact, so check out as many of its titles as you can.
Gemini Rue may look like an old adventure thanks to its retro graphics, but you can expect top production values throughout. The voice acting is solid and the way you can switch between characters helps to make the game less linear.
Best Mac adventure games: Dropsy
The second game on this list to feature a slightly disturbing clown, Dropsy is a rather hilarious adventure title available for Mac on Steam and GOG right now. The open-world environment makes for a pleasingly linear-free experience, but there are plenty of interesting puzzles tucked away to solve and bizarre characters (including animals, who Dropsy can communicate with) to meet and befriend. And hug.
Best Mac adventure games: Tex Murphy series
Tex Murphy is one of our favourite characters from any videogame past or present and you can play all of his old adventures now thanks to Steam and GOG.
We recommend starting at the very beginning with Martian Memorandum and Mean Streets, if you don’t mind the dated interface and the rest. From Under a Killing Moon, the series went full 3D with the ability to explore your environments in first person in search of clues. Each game boasts a complex mystery to unravel and heaps of taxing puzzles, as well as a nifty built-in hint system and a casual mode for adventure game beginners.
Best Mac adventure games: The Last Door
Fans of Poe and classic horror stories should get a kick out of The Last Door. This stark point and click adventure game sports incredibly low-resolution graphics, yet still inspires terror thanks to its harrowing soundtrack and a healthy dose of imagination.
You can enjoy two series of The Last Door now on Mac, each of which features six episodes packed with puzzles and dread.
Best Mac adventure games: Life is Strange
Life is Strange offers a very different experience compared with the other Mac adventures here. This casual title casts you as a college girl who discovers she has the ability to turn back time and prevent bad things from happening – at a cost. It’s your typical teenage drama, but with well-realised characters, dark plot twists and a healthy dose of supernatural shenanigans.
The pacing is slow and the gameplay is gentle at best, but Life is Strange is one hell of a trip.
Best Mac adventure games: Dead Synchronicity
If you’re after a bit of light relief, stay well clear of Dead Synchronicity. Just take a look at the game description on Steam:
“Help Michael face a dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. Face a merciless world that gets sick and vanishes. Face no past, no present, no future…” and so on.
The story is as bleak as it comes, but Dead Synchronicity is a gripping glimpse of a horrific apocalyptic future where the population is overcome by a deadly virus. Stuck away in a grim containment camp, you must break free and discover a solution to the world’s predicament. Smart puzzles and slick production makes for a great adventure.
Best Mac adventure games: Broken Age
Tim Schafer (of Day of the Tentacle fame) came up with this imaginative and rather bonkers new adventure game, starring two very different characters who find their worlds colliding in dramatic fashion. Gorgeous cartoon graphics, tough brainteasers and a couple of rather great plot twists make for a solid Mac adventure game.
Download
- Mirror 1 (HQX): Prince.hqx (1.16 MB)
- Mirror 2 (SIT): pop1.sit (1.36 MB)
- Mirror 3 (HFS): PoP1.hfs (5.00 MB)
Prince of Persia CD Collection (DOS and Macintosh 1 & 2)
Now you can download exclusively on popuw.com: Prince of Persia CD Collection (DOS and Macintosh 1 & 2 Full ISO). Thanks to ThunderStorM.
The Prince of Persia CD Collection is a re-release of the original Prince of Persia and PoP 2: The Shadow and the Flame. The package contains both the Windows and MacOS versions of both games on a single hybrid CD.
Download: PRINCECD.ISO (29.3 MB)
Key Codes
Here's a visual sheet for the Mac version for Prince of Persia 1: (Click to enlarge)
Prince of Persia 1 Manuals
Go to download.html.
Hacks for Prince of Persia 1 (Mac version)
Here are some hacks for the Mac version of POP1 (saving/potion level/etc) - by Emma Kane.
Prince of Persia 1.0 on OS X
There are two ways to run PoP on OSX - one is to use Basilisk II, which will run in colour, the other is to use Minivmac - which has sound and is more stable, but uses a mac plus rom only so everything is in black and white.
Prince of Persia is a superb game. Its a lot like tombraider in terms of controls, it was well ahead of its time (1992), and is very playable today.
However, it was commercial software and as such is copy protected. In order to progress through the game you have to go to a room and pick one of 24 potions (a-z) to drink. Pick the wrong one and you're dead. The code to pick the right one comes up on the screen and you need the manual to figure out the fight potion. With me so far? So you need a copy of the manual to play much of the game. Or you need this image.
Or you need a copy of Resedit and the ability to use it to hack into your copy of POP as follows:
(the first one definitely works) The Potion Level never appears
patch for 1.0
CODE 2, offset 1F70
change 660A
to 600A
The Potion Level is passed over
patch for 1.0
1. delete existing Potion Level (level 12? 15?)
2. copy LEVL 1 to clipboard
3. change the ID and name of the existing LEVL 1 to that of Potion Level
4. paste back in LEVL 1
Get unlimited chances to find the right potion patch for 1.0
CODE 3, offset 55A6
change 5240
to 7000
allow editing of saved files
patch
CODE 2, offset 15AC
change 663A
to 4E71
The save file is in the following format, two bytes each:
1. minutes left
2. fraction of a minute out of $2D0 (max is $2CF)
3. level
â—¦ $F is potion level
â—¦ $E is last level or princess level
â—¦ $C and $D are level 12 part 1 and part 2 Jaffer level
â—¦ $1-$B is level 1 to 11
â—¦ $0 is the demo level
4. potions
5. unknown
6. prizes (people killed, items obtained, big potions etc.)
7. how many times prince died
8. checksum (= $1B39 - min*$B - frac - level*$11 - potions*$25 - unknown*$C1 - prize*$17 - died*$D)
(You can also check the source to see how to emulate PoP1 macintosh version to run either under Basilisk II or under Minivmac on a Mac OSX) - Source: http://www.iknowthe.net/classicmac)
Play PoP Macintosh versions on Windows
Here is a complete and detailed tutorial for playing Prince of Persia 1 or 2 Macintosh versions on Windows: CLICK HERE.Play PoP Macintosh versions on Mac OS X
Mac Os Demo Online
Here is a complete and detailed tutorial for playing Prince of Persia 1 or 2 Macintosh versions on Mac OSX: CLICK HERE.
PoPMap Mac Prince of Persia Editor
PoPMap Mac Prince of Persia Editor: (Released in 1992/3 / Works with Executor as well).
How to use:
1) Download from below both Prince of Persia level editors from HyperArchive.
Abstract of Persia Cheater 1.0; cheats extension 9306 (06/26/1997) Download
Abstract of POP2 Saves 24K (06/26/1997) Download
Abstract of Prince of Persia 2 walkthrough update 14K (06/26/1997) Download
Abstract of Prince of Persia Editor 1.0 11K (06/26/1997) Download
Abstract of Prince of Persia Level Editor 39K (06/26/1997) Download
2) When using the editor, you must first make a copy of your POP game and rename it. If you do not rename the file, the editor will not save it. This is to protect your original levels.
3) Fool around with one of the levels.
4) Make some sweet levels and post them here!
5) Preview: (Click on the picture to enlarge it).
PoP1 Mac Tools
There's a couple of other cool things for POP - 2 level editors, plus an init (put in extensions) that adds a useful cheat menu.
persia-cheater-10.hqx
prince-of-persia-editor-10.hqx
prince-of-persia-lvl-editor.hqx
Prince of Persia 1 Mac DEMO
Download: popdemo.sit.hqx
Other downloads
Prince of Persia 1 Level Editor: popeditor.sit.hqx
PoPE (cheat): pope.sit.hqx
popyorn - Prince of Persia 1 Macintosh level editor
popyorn is a level editor of Prince of Persia for the Macintosh. Version 0.9b was released by Norbert de Jonge on 2 September 2018.
Homepage: https://www.norbertdejonge.nl/popyorn/
Downloads:
- Windows (latest, 0.9b version): popyorn-0.9b-win32.zip
- GNU/Linux (latest, 0.9b version): popyorn-0.9b.tar.gz
Prince's PoP 1-Mac sprite sheet
Click on the image to get the full size:
You can also get the sprites alone (separated gif files) from here: popspecial.html
Frame by Frame Sprites
You can get David's frame by frame sprites from here: macsprites.zip
PoP Macintosh Total Pack
POP MAC Total Pack for PC - contains PoP1, PoP2, tools, editors and other games with Basilisk II system (8.0). Released by adam77.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7u3dia2003ln2tq/macintosh_package.rar (80.51 MB)
Instructions
1) Download;
2) Extract;
3) Open up the Macintosh Package folder;
4) Open up 'BasiliskIIGUI.exe' (** Notice the file name it is NOT 'BasiliskII.exe'**);
5) Click on the 'RUN[F1]' button in the bottom right hand corner;
6) Click ok on the cd rom error (if you get an error);
7) The emulator should start.
8) The icon for the HD is in the top right hand corner
HERE ARE A LIST OF GAMES ALREADY INSTALLED
A) Prince of Persia 1 - (works) - includes Pop Map editor and POP Cheats.
B) Prince of Persia 2 - (works)
C) Tetris Max -(woks) - by far my favorite tetris game ever.
D) Diamonds - (works) - Awesome game
E) Jewell Box - (works)
F) Movod II - (works)
G) Load Runner - (works)
H) Lemmings - (woks) - Includes Lemmings, Oh No More Lemmings, and Holiday Lemmings
I) Beam Wars - (works)
J) Snake - (works)
K) Columns - (works)
L) Mac Brickout - (Used to love this game and I CANT get it to work. If you do, please let me know how)
M) Crystal Crazy - (Asks me for a disk?)
N) Blox Arcade (opens, but i see no pieces falling?)
O) Crystal Crazy - (works, but I cant quit and get back to main desktop)
P) Bonkheads Deluxe - (Crashed the program, let me know if you get working)
Q) Oids - (Couldn't get to work)
R) Scruffy - (wanted to change to B&W)
* Good Luck and let me know if you find any other games that work with the package. Stuffit expander is in one of the folders.
Regarding PopMap: You have to double click on popmap and then go to file-open and navigate to the pop1 folder where you will find the prince icon. Click on open and it will bring up a list of levels in the game to chose from where you can then edit the level. I guess you should make a copy of the game first so you can preserve the original levels. And PopMap works fine: when you double click on popmac it will look like it disappears, but in reality what happens is the File/Edit etc.. menu items at the top change to be used with the popmap program and that is when you go to file open. and select the pop icon. It does this for many mac applications, I think that is just the way that system 8 works, but I assure you it is there. The same thing happens when you double click on stuffit expander, everything disappears and you have to go to file/ expand.
Forum Topic (Topic 2)
PoP1 Mac Gameplay: Complete Walkthrough
Prince of Persia 1 Mac [1992] Mac Gameplay: Complete Walkthrough (HIGH QUALITY 2020) by ThunderStorM
Played and recorded by ThunderStorM on 14/07/20 - Emulator used: Basilisk II - Recorded with OBS in Full HD resolution (1920x1080) @ 60 fps, 15.000 bitrate.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQu10F6r5k
Adomatic's maps for PoP 1 PC and Mac versions
Interactive-like maps made by Adomatic. Click to enlarge.
| PC | Macintosh |
More
For more info, screens, etc. check out the old PoP Mac page here: http://geocities.com/princeofpersia123/mac.html
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