It might look simple at first, but it’s actually amazingly detailed and complex, but in all the right ways. You build up the world around you, craft, farm, explore, create and survive. Minecraft lets you literally create anything you can imagine.
All I know is one day I switched on my Mac HATING Minecraft and switched off my Mac a week later HOOKED ( I just lied, I lever switched off. I can’t explain the voodoo that the game has. Then the world went Minecraft MAD and again, I judged them pretty hard, only this time I judged Minecrafters out loud and then, I played it. I pretended to be excited about the game for their parts but I was secretly judging them for playing it. I just didn’t get it, it honestly looked like the most stupid game ever. When my baby cousins first showed me Minecraft years and years ago I vowed never to play it. This is a game that needs no build up, no hype, no nothing – you just need to trust me and play it. You can read my love letter to the game here. I’m not even going to write anything more about Life Is Strange, I’ve written enough previously. You have different skills you can develop, different relationships you can explore and a pretty mean crafting system. You start from nothing and build your farm, and the town around you up. I’m not ashamed to say that I have definitely blown off dates under the guise of ‘I have so much work to do’ so that I can curl up in sweatpants and a baggy shirt to binge play Stardew. I think this is the game I own that drives my partner the craziest I can go for months without even thinking about it, but then once I start playing it again I can’t stop. Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life / fantasy adventure RPG, and I’m hooked. Each of the adventurers has a different set abilities to help you and you control all three of them simultaneously to help solve different puzzles and get through the cave. You create a team of up to 3 different adventurers to make your way through ‘The Cave’.
I t quickly went from ‘I bought you this game’ to ‘I bought US this game’. It’s beautiful, funny, has intelligent puzzles, a great soundtrack, and an intriguing story. I first bought this game for my partner because this style of game is 100% up his alley but then once I actually watched him play it, I was instantly hooked. In the spirit that I started writing gaming articles, I present to yo: My top 5 favourite games to play on my Mac ( right now) 1) The Cave
It wasn’t as easy as playing games on my PC or a console because there wasn’t a big selection of titles and performance was sometimes a problem, but that was then and this is now.Ī lot has changed in the last few years and with every passing year Macs become stronger and more equipped to handle games, and more developers start seeing that and bringing their games to Mac.
Throughout my life I have always had either an iMac, MacBook or iPad around, and contrary to popular belief, I have always been able to play games on them. I tried to make people see that gaming could be easy and accessible.īut somewhere along the line I forgot where I came from: I’m a HUGE Apple fangirl. It’s the one love I have that could easily stand its own against my love for gaming. I’ve also written posts about which games make a good transition from mobile gaming to something more serious. I started trying to break down some of the more intense online games like League of Legends and Hearthstoneso that no one had to feel scared to dive in for the first time. So I started writing the type of gaming articles that I wish I had when I was younger.
I wanted to help show that gaming wasn’t just for a select demographic of people, it was for everyone. Instead, I wanted to be a bridge that helped people discover this wonderful world through my writing so that they get to experience the magic that I do and also find that feeling of inclusion. When I decided I wanted to start writing about games I never wanted to pretend that I was some all-knowing gaming god and blow people away with my knowledge. One of the reasons I fell in love with gaming, to begin with, was the feeling of being included in something bigger than myself: bigger than the world I lived in and the feeling of being part of a community that is indescribably colourful, bubbly and amazing. I don’t think it’s any secret how much I love gaming, I love it so much that at the age of 25 I decided to throw my whole life upside down so that I could try to make gaming a part of my career.