Fun Games to Download on MacBook Air

As someone who's not exactly familiar with the current AAA gaming scene, I was excited to test out some games on my MacBook Air. My initial goal was to see how well recent, huge titles like Elden Ring, Halo, Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, and more would run on my M1 Mac. Unfortunately, most of these games aren't available for Mac, so I had to settle for some slightly older games.

I have to admit that I was a bit out of touch with the gaming world, having only dabbled in Terraria on my old MacBook back in 2017. But after watching gamers on Twitch, I thought this could be an exciting part of the PC gaming experience. Unfortunately, my experience was filled with issues like controllers not working and games not loading.

This was my first time gaming on a computer instead of a console, so there may be some things that I complain about that aren't exclusive to Mac. Additionally, I don't have any of the recent M1 upgrades (like M1 Max) nor do I have anything more than the basic amount of RAM, so you can consider this a very basic gaming on an M1 Mac experience.

Despite these limitations, I had a lot of fun and surprisingly, a lot of frustration. I logged at least ten hours on each of the six games I tested over the past three weeks. And I didn't just play through the beginning levels - I got deep into each game to see how well they performed.

The inspiration for this article came from Apple itself, which showed people successfully playing games like Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (which we'll be reviewing) during the M1 iMac announcement. As someone who loves playing video games and doesn't have a PS5 on the horizon, I wanted to see if I could treat my M1 Mac like a serious gaming machine.

Overall, while there were some challenges, I was happy to discover that it's possible to have fun playing games on a MacBook Air. Here are the six games I tested:

Fun games to download on macbook air