Mac M1 Games: Native & Rosetta 2 supported games

by Ric Molina | Jun 14, 2021

The new ARM-based Macs, also known as M1 Macs, are a big deal, especially for gaming.

Early on, tech experts predicted that M1 Macs with silicon processors could perhaps become powerful enough to save Mac gaming. But they warned it could take years.

Yet here we are, and M1 Macs are already blowing us away with their incredible gaming performance compared to Intel Macs.

As more and more games get M1 support every day, either natively or via Rosetta 2, this page will too keep growing to help you track M1 compatibility and gaming performance.

Count It: M1 FPS counter

Count It is a free Frame-rate counter (FPS) Mac app that allows you to track, record, and benchmark frames per second (FPS) on M1 Macs.

Apple M1 Mac games compatibility list

This is our growing curated list of Mac games we have personally tested and/or verified on M1 Macs:

Game	Developer	Genre	API	M1 Support	Performance	64-bit?	M1 Support?
Asphalt 8	Gameloft	Racing	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
Asphalt 9	Gameloft	Racing	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
Disco Elysium	ZA/UM	RPG	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
Pascal's Wager: Definitive Edition	TipsWorks	RPG	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
Spacebase Startopia	Realmforge Studios	Strategy	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
World of Warcraft	Blizzard	MMO	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
World of Warcraft: Classic	Blizzard	MMO	Metal	Native	Good	Yes	Native
Among Us	InnerSloth	Party	Metal	iOS	Good	Yes	iOS
Pokemon Quest	Game Freak	Adventure	Metal	iOS	Good	Yes	iOS
911 Operator	Jutsu Games	Simulation	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
A Total War Saga: Troy	Feral Interactive	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Age of Wonders: Planetfall	Triumph Studios	Strategy	TBC	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Albion Online	Sandbox Interactive	MMO	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Alien: Isolation	Feral Interactive	Horror	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
American Truck Simulator	SCS Software	Simulation	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Aragami	Lince Works	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Baba is You	Hempuli Oy	Puzzle	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Baldur's Gate 3	Larian Studios	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Bastion	Supergiant Games	Adventure	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Batman: Arkham City	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Battle for Wesnoth	Battle for Wesnoth Project	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
BATTLETECH	Harebrained Schemes	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Beholder	Warm Lamp Games	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Beyond A Steel Sky	Revolution Software	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Bioshock 2 Remastered	Feral Interactive	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
BioShock Remastered	Feral Interactive	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Borderlands 2	Gearbox Software	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Borderlands 3	Gearbox Software	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3	Aspyr Media	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
CARRION	Phobia Game Studio	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Cave Story	Studio Pixel	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Celeste	Matt Makes Games	Action	Vulkan	Rosetta	Poor	Yes	Rosetta
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare	Torn Banner Studios	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Cities: Skylines	Colossal Order	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Civilization 5	Aspyr Media	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Civilization 6	Aspyr Media	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Company of Heroes 2	Feral Interactive	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Counter Strike: Global Offensive	Valve	Shooter	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Crusader Kings 3	Paradox Development	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Cuphead	StudioMDHR	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Darkest Dungeon	Red Hook Studios	RPG	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Dead Cells	Motion Twin	Action	TBC	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Desperados 3	Mimimi Games	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Deus Ex: Manking Divided	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Diablo 3	Blizzard	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
DiRT 4	Feral Interactive	Racing	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
DiRT Rally	Feral Interactive	Racing	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Divinity: Original Sin 2	Larian Studios	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Doki Doki Literature Club!	Team Salvato	Visual Novel	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Dota 2	Valve	MOBA	Vulkan	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Dota Underlords	Valve	Strategy	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Dying Light	Techland	Survival	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Elder Scrolls Online	Zenimax Online	MMO	Vulkan	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Europa Universalis 4	Paradox Development	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Everspace	ROCKFISH Games	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
F1 2016	Feral Interactive	Racing	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
F1 2017	Feral Interactive	Racing	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Factorio	Wube Software	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Firewatch	Campo Santo	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Fishing Planet	Fishing Planet LLC	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Football Manager 2021	Sports Interactive	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Fortnite	Epic Games	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Frostpunk	11 bit studios	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Guild Wars 2	ArenaNet	MMO	OpenGL	Rosetta	Poor	Yes	Rosetta
Hades	Supergiant Games	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Hearthstone	Blizzard	CCD	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Hellpoint	Cradle Games	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Her Story	Sam Barlow	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Hitman	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Hollow Knight	Team Cherry	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
INSIDE	Playdead	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Insurgency	New World Interactive	Shooter	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Into the Breach	Subset Games	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Kingdoms and Castles	Lionshield Studios	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Layers of Fear	Aspyr Media	Horror	TBC	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
League of Legends	Riot Games	MOBA	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
LEGO: The Incredibles	Feral Interactive	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Life is Strange	Feral Interactive	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Life is Strange 2	Feral Interactive	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Life is Strange: Before the Storm	Feral Interactive	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Mad Max	Feral Interactive	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Magic The Gathering Arena	Wizards of the Coast	CCD	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Metro: 2033 Redux	4A Games	Shooter	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Metro: Exodus	4A Games	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Metro: Last Light Redux	4A Games	Shooter	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor	Feral Interactive	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Minecraft	Mojang	Sandbox	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Moonlighter	Digital Sun	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Moto Racer 4	Artefacts Studio	Racing	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Night in the Woods	Infinite Fall	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Northgard	Shiro Games	Strategy	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Obduction	Cyan Worlds	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Outlast	Red Barrels	Horror	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Owlboy	D-Pad Studio	Adventure	TBC	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Oxenfree	Night School Studio	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Oxygen Not Included	Klei	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Path of Exile	Grinding Gear Games	RPG	Vulkan	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Pathfinder: Kingmaker	Owlcat Games	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Phoenix Point	Snapshot Games	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Planet Coaster	Aspyr	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Prison Architect	Introversion Software	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Project Zomboid	The Indie Stone	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Rise of the Tomb Raider	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Robocraft	Freejam	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Rust	Facepunch Studios	Survival	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Shadow of The Tomb Raider	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Skul: The Hero Slayer	SouthPAW Games	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Sleeping Dogs	Feral Interactive	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Slime Rancher	Monomi Park	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
SOMA	Frictional Games	Horror	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2	Aspyr	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Starcraft 2	Blizzard	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Poor	Yes	Rosetta
Stardew Valley	ConcernedApe	Simulation	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
STRAFE: Gold Edition	Pixel Titans	Shooter	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Subnautica	Unknown Worlds Entertainment	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Subnautica: Below Zero	Unknown Worlds Entertainment	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Poor	Yes	Rosetta
SUPERHOT	SUPERHOT Team	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete	SUPERHOT Team	Shooter	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Surviving Mars	Haemimont Games	Strategy	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
TACOMA	Fullbright	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Poor	Yes	Rosetta
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut	inXile entertainment	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
The Long Dark	Hinterland Studio	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
The Pathless	Giant Squid	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
The Sims 2	Aspyr Media	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Crashes	Yes	Rosetta
The Sims 4	Maxis	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
The Witness	Thekla	Adventure	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Thief	Feral Interactive	Action	OpenGL	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Thimbleweed Park	Terrible Toybox	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Tomb Raider	Feral Interactive	Action	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Tooth and Tail	Pocketwatch Games	Strategy	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Total War: ROME REMASTERED	Feral Interactive	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Total War: Warhammer 2	Feral Interactive	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator	Landfall	Simulation	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Transistor	Supergiant Games	Adventure	TBC	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Tropico 6	Limbic Entertainment	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Undertale	Toby Fox	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Untitled Goose Game	House House	Puzzle	Metal	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Victor Vran	Haemimont Games	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta		Yes	Rosetta
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut	inXile Entertainment	RPG	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Wasteland 3	inXile Entertainment	RPG	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
XCOM 2	Feral Interactive	Strategy	Metal	Rosetta	Average	Yes	Rosetta
Yooka-Laylee	Playtonic Games	Adventure	OpenGL	Rosetta	Good	Yes	Rosetta
Age of Wonders 3	Triumph Studios	Strategy	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
ARK: Survival Evolved	Studio Wildcard	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Arma 3	Bohemia Interactive	Shooter	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Brawlhalla	Blue Mammoth Games	Action	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	Aspyr Media	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Crusader Kings 2	Paradox Development	Strategy	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
EVE Online	CCP	MMO	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Fistful of Frags	Fistful of Frags Team	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Gravel	Milestone	Racing	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Grid 2	Feral Interactive	Racing	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Half Life 2	Valve	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Homeworld Remastered	Aspyr	Strategy	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Left 4 Dead 2	Valve	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Lord of the Rings Online	Standing Stone Games	MMO	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Mafia 3	Aspyr Media	Action	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine	Pocketwatch Games	Action	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
MXGP3	Milestone	Racing	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Observer	Aspyr Media	Horror	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Portal 2	Valve	Puzzle	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Psychonauts	Double Fine Productions	Action	TBC	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Punch Club	Lazy Bear Games	RPG	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Spelunky: Classic	Mossmouth	Adventure	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
Team Fortress 2	Valve	Shooter	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
The Lord of the Rings Online	Standing Stone Games	MMO	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
The Stanley Parable	Galactic Cafe	Adventure	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
The Walking Dead	Telltale Games	Horror	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
The Witcher	CD Prokeckt RED	RPG	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
The Witcher 2	CD Prokeckt RED	RPG	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported
War Thunder	Gaijin Entertainment	MMO	Metal	Unsupported	Crashes	Yes	Unsupported
Xenonauts	Goldhawk Interactive	Strategy	OpenGL	Unsupported	32-bit only	No	Unsupported

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Native Mac M1 games

Native M1 games are games that have been written for ARM-based processors. These are the apps and games that will deliver the biggest jump in performance compared to Intel-powered Macs.

Unfortunately, the list of native M1 games is still small, with only 2 games that officially support Apple M1 processors. Disco Elysium and World of Warcraft.

More games will definitely make the jump and you can rest assured we will track them and include them on this list.

How to check if a game is Intel or M1 Native?

If you’re wondering whether a game you play has native M1 support or not, this is how you can check for yourself:

Find the Game using the Finder
Left-click it
Select “Show info”

Native M1 games will be identified as “Universal” (unlike Intel games that will be identified as “Intel”)

Rosetta 2 games

The list of native M1 games may be small right now, but Apple did a terrific job with Rosetta 2. With Rosetta 2, your M1 Mac is able to translate any Intel app or game and make it compatible with ARM machines. Technically, every game that works on Intel Macs should be able to run on M1 Macs thanks to Rosetta 2.

And this works generally great, except for a few cases in which the game will crash, run poorly or simply not run at all. For that reason, our Compatibility list above is tracking Rosetta 2 support separately.

Submit & Request results

Our compatibility list will continue to work but we need your help to grow it faster!

If you’re interested in testing games on your own M1 Mac, you can do so here:

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You can also join our Discord to request a game or talk with other M1 Mac users.