Top 40 best free Mac games for 2010
You’ve got a new Mac and zero budget for games? Come on inside for 40 of the best free Mac games — demos, shareware, trials, rpg, fps, puzzle, cards, arcade, more — that won’t cost you a single red cent!
No matter what you’re into (well, kinky stuff aside), you’ll find a game or 20 here to help you enjoy your Mac. If you find one that rocks or a title that’s less than stellar, share your impressions in the comments.
1. Insectoid, download
— An adrenaline-inducing take on the ’80s classic Galaga with seven free levels
2. MyMahj, download
— A nice and relaxing solitaire mahjongg game in 2D and 3D
3. Cube 2: Sauerbraten, download
— A free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.
4. Klondike Forever, download
— It’s Klondike solitaire
5. Plants vs. Zombies, download
— A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants.
6. Pandora’s Pests, download
— Save yourself and the earth from certain peril!
7. Aqua Mines, download
— An arcade game in the vein of MineSweeper
8. The Balloon Brothers Tumble Top Spectacular, download
— Match three balloons to set them free them from their inflated incarceration
9. Laser Dolphin, download
— A dolphin (and other animals) with frickin’ lasers on its head
10. Kitty Spangles Solitaire, download
— The best looking Sudoku for your Mac, featuring a fantastic range of beautifully animated, colorful and stylish themes to choose from.
11. Battle for Wesnoth, download
— A turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat
12. Solitaire Forever, download
— 150 solitaire games brought to life in vivid 3D
13. Downfall, download
— A fun 3D falling-blocks game (i.e. Tetris)
— Also available for iPhone
14. GL Golf, download
— Play 450 different holes in this exciting 3D golf game.
15. Chitarrella, download
— A program for the Macintosh with which you can play 11 healty card games against the computer that you will never get tired of.
16. Vendetta Online, trial
— A 3D space combat MMORPG for Windows, Mac and Linux that permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe.
17. David’s Backgammon, demo
— An excellent, addictive and very easy-to-use backgammon game that will help you get ready to kick butt when you play backgammon on-line.
18. JiXii, download
— Make Jigsaw puzzles from your favorite images — relax or play against the clock.
19. Mah Jong Solitaire, online only, enable Java to play
— A free puzzle game based on a classic Chinese game for four persons with the goal being to remove all 144 tiles from the board.
20. Solitaire XL, download
— A stunning version of the well known one-person card game, Klondike Solitaire
21. Myster Island, download
— You are a Navy Seal currently serving aboard the USS Volarus when your submarine is destroyed by an unidentified vessel.
22. jalada Ulimate Racing, download
— Prepare for a racing experience so immersive and real that it just might make players better or at least much faster drivers in real life.
23. Pool Shark 3D, download
— A full featured billiards game in 3D exclusively for Mac OS X
24. Jack of All Trades, download
— You’re in the middle of an ongoing feud between two ancient space-faring civilizations.
25. Curse of the Pharaoh — Napoleon’s Secret, download
— A thrilling adventure game that blends together classic Hidden Object puzzles with a special twist on Spot the Difference gameplay.
26. Mystic Worldz – Secret Of The Sock, download
— A unique and addictive tile-matching adventure that will keep you playing! It has beautiful backgrounds, relaxing music and lots of challenging puzzles to solve!
27. Challenge of the Runestones, download
— A puzzle game where you click on matching pairs of runes to remove them from the board, but the runes must be connected by a leyline — a mystical pathway that connects them, but has no more than two bends and does not go over any other rune.
28. TapSquares, download
— A tile-based puzzle game where you keep flipping tiles until they’re all the same color, and you win.
29. Speed!, download
— A Mac port of an old Amiga game, a simple first-person game where the goal is to race through a maze as fast as possible.
30. Hotel Dash — Suite Success, one-hour demo
— When Quinn’s new travel business hits a snag, she needs Flo’s patented elbow grease to help renovate and run hotels all over DinerTown!
31.Privateer, Gemini Gold, download
— As Grayson Burrows you inherited a small old scout class ship from your grandfather, to start over as a Privateer in a new and sparsely populated sector of the Confederation.
32. Mighty Mathball, download
— Play to hone your math skills, or just play for the fun of it
33. Westward III, download
— Join the gold rush in the Northern California wilderness, where speculators flock west in hopes of striking it rich.
34. Spirited Heart, demo
— Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness.
35. Pretty Good Solitaire, download
— Play 200 solitaire games
36. aMaze, download
— A Java puzzle game that allows you to generate and explore mazes of varying complexity.
37. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst , one-hour demo
— Emma`s soul is free, but her ghost has delivered a dire warning: evil still lurks in Ravenhearst Manor.
38. Jewel Twist, download
— Fun Match-3 game with 100 unique levels
39. Tripsimus, download
— You’re snail in search of the Magic Lettuce
40. Maxi Dice, download
— In Maxi Dice you can enjoy both normal Yatzy, and the unique Maxi Yatzy, a game with six dice and more categories to put points in.
Oy! You know the drill — I’m a hard working guy, but it’s inevitable that the best game has been passed over. So, drop a name and link in the comments below, and share your superior knowledge of Mac gaming with us all…
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The billiard game of nine ball uses only the 1 through 9 balls and cue ball. It is a rotation game where the player at the table must make legal contact with the lowest numbered ball on the table or a foul is called.
August 22nd, 2010
Thank You
April 16th, 2011
Uh, if it is posted on December 28 of 2009, how would you know the best game in 2010?
August 15th, 2011
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