Alien Abduction

Save crash survivors from abduction by evil aliens.

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Angband

Take the role of an adventurer, exploring a deep dungeon, fighting monsters, and acquiring the best weaponry you can, in preparation for a final battle with Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness.

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Aquatomic

Slide atoms through the maze-like structures of Aquatomic to create molecules.

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Argonaut

A modern rendering of the classic Asteroids game with glorious graphics.

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Armagetron

3D clone of the popular laser-racing game Tron with a customizable playing arena.

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Armand and the Foppish Hat

Adventure game reminiscent of the Zelda series in glorious retro 2D. The storyline is a hoot, but puzzles give you a run for your money.

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AssaultCube

First-person-shooter set in a realistic looking environment. It’s all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

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Boggle

Make as many words as you can in three minutes.

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Bomberman

Work your way through the levels with strategic placement of bombs that kill enemies and destroy obstacles.

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BombSquad

Clear the grid before getting blown up in this Minesweeper clone.

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Bricksmith

Create Lego models with your Mac—looks tricky, though.

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Bug Defender

Buy weapons and ammo and set them up along a path to kill bugs before they get in your house. More kills means more cash for weapons upgrades.

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Bullfrog

Use a bullfrog to clear your yard of pests before time runs out. Beautiful graphics.

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BZFlag

A free multiplayer, multiplatform 3D tank battle game. The name stands for Battle Zone capture Flag. Aside from Mac OS X, it also runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows and other platforms.

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Cave Story

This Japanese side-scroller has you trying to make your way through a series of caves, avoiding obstacles and enemies along the way. You’ll have to download both the game and a separate English-language patch to make it work — unless, of course, you speak Japanese.

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Coblyn

Avoid obstacles and race against time to collect enough diamonds so you can make it to the next level. A classic from the 1980s.

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Cocoa Mad Race

Race your vehicle against the computer in a bid to make it to the next level.

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Connect4 Fisa

Drop discs into a grid to create a line of four horizontally, vertically or diagonally before your computer opponent beats you to it.

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Crack Attack

Crack Attack is based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack, featuring full-screen mode.

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Deliantra

Co-operative multiplayer RPG and adventure game that is fully graphical and runs in realtime. It is set in a classical medieval environment with ubiquitious weapons and magic.

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Double

Match the tiles in Double to eliminate them — a good mahjong clone.

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Dwarf Fortress

Run a dwarven outpost or play an adventurer in a persistent, randomly generated world with distinct civilizations spanning over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of caves and regions with various wildlife

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Enigma

A puzzle game the object of which is to uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. It features hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams and countless hairy puzzles.

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Find A Word

Use letters from the “pot” to create as many words as you can before time runs out.

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Fishie

Fun little game has you using the space bar (or not) to move a fish around so it can eat everything in sight. Nice graphics, cool music.

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Freecell

A Mac OS X version of the classic solitaire game.

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Freeciv

A free version of the popular Civilization strategy game requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and X11.

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FreeCol

In this turn-based strategy game your objective is to create an independent nation, starting with only a few colonists in search of new land. Based on the old Colonization game and similar to Civilization.

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Frets on Fire

Your fingers must be nimble on the keyboard to follow the tune in this open source version of Guitar Hero.

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Glest

You control two armies on the battlefield of this 3D real-time strategy game: the warriors and mechanical devices of Tech and the mages and summoned creatures of Magic.

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Glider Pro

Float your Glider Pro paper airplane through rooms in a house with many obstacles.

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GLTron

Inspired by the movie TRON, you steer a futuristic bike through a rectangular arena, leaving a trail behind, which you hope to force other players to drive into.

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GNU Backgammon

Think you’re good at backgammon? Try your luck against GNU Backgammon, currently boasting world class capabilities.

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Go Ollie

Use your mouse to make Ollie the worm jump from platform to platform to the finish line, all the while avoiding falls and enemies. Terrific side-scrolling cartoon fun.

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Goban

Play Go against the program or against other players over a local network or the Internet.

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Gridlock

A collection of over 30 abstract strategy board games, including Ataxx, Reversi, Checkers, Gomoku, Connect Four, Breakthrough, and many others. You can play against the computer or over the network.

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HexAddict

A nicely done version of Minesweeper spiced up with great graphics for the themes.

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Hot Spot X

Work your way to the middle of four concentric rings using 32 game tiles with various colours and symbols. The rules make it tricky, though. Maybe even darned near impossible.

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Ivory

A solitaire tile matching game based on the single player game known most often as Mahjongg, and also called Shanghai or Taipei. Beautiful graphics.

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JewelToy

Just like Bejeweled — you switch jewels around on a grid to group them in threes and eliminate them. You’ll want to keep going forever.

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Krank

Create strings of balls by nudging them together with your cursor. Beautiful graphics and soundtrack combine with challenging game play.

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Latrunculi

An ancient Roman board game has your pieces arrayed for battle against the enemy, which in this case uses artificial intelligence.

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Lin City-NG

A city simulation game with nice graphics. Start with a small village and build your way up to a bustling metropolis.

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Lines

Clear the grid by placing same-colour tokens in lines of five. Similar to Bee Cells 3D.

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MacSolitaire

A good clean version by MacSolitaire of good ol’ Klondike.

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Marathon

First-person shooter originally developed by Bungie is now open source with active support.

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Marble Arena

Fans of Marble Blast, which sells for $19.95, will be happy to know that a similar freeware game called Marble Arena is now available. Both involve rolling your marble through intricate and challenging 3D landscapes. Another freeware game along this vein is neverball.

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Marble Solitarus

Jump marbles to clear the board, being careful not to leave any behind.

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Mario Paint Composer

Make music the classic Mario Paint way with this remake of the music system from the original game for the Super NES.

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Mish-Mash

Rebuild images chosen from your albums or the Internet by moving and scrolling random cells that hold portions of each photo. The game can be easy or hard depending of the content of the images you choose, how many you pick and the puzzle size you set.

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MyMahj

Match the tiles to clear the mahjong board — but this time in glorious 3D.

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MySokoban

Push the boxes around a maze to their final destination without getting stuck. You’ll like the cute Nintendo-style graphics. If you don’t, have a look at SYASokoban, which is basically the same game.

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Also try: SYASokoban

Neuronyx

Match cards as quickly as possible in this memory game. There are several levels of difficulty, and you can create your own cards.

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neverball

Roll a marble through challenging landscapes to reach your goal. Includes neverputt, a simple golf game.

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Nexuiz

3D death match similar to Quake III: Arena. A 273 MB download — need we say more?

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NinjaQuestX

You play a ninja in a dungeon, exploring the many passages and fighting many fearsome monsters. It’s built to have the feel of a text adventure but with full graphics and a complete ninja-style look. Requires Java.

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Oberin

An online fantasy role-playing game and virtual community, available exclusively for Macintosh.

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OneCard

Match cards against computer players, just like Uno.

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Oolite

A space sim game with a retro feel and modern technology. Fly from planet to planet, buying and selling goods, shooting pirates or committing acts of piracy. It can be complicated, but there is a flight training manual.

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Oops!

Race your pieces around the board, sending your opponents back to the start, in this version of the popular board game Sorry. Play against the computer or go up against opponents on a network, leaving messages as you go.

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OpenArena

Completely free game based on the Q3A engine and gamecode with fully working bots, net play and a vast sellection of maps and player models. You do not need Quake III Arena to play this game.

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OpenLieroX

An addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community. Players choose their weapons, grab a ninja rope and face off for a deathmatch in a closed level.

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OpenTTD

Build a transportation empire by land, air and sea, outwitting your competition along the way.

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Otis

Match the blocks and watch them drop, reminiscent of Same Game.

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Owl Country

Swoop through the night skies of Montreal to attack a flock of pigeons — but watch out for lampposts. The movie trailer is a real hoot.

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Pac the Man

When you play Pac the Man, it’s just like, well, Pac-Man.

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Pairs

Tile matching game tests your memory as you race against the clock to find identical pairs of pictures. Includes a number of tile styles and three difficulty settings.

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Pakoon III: First Blood

Help the chicks escape by blowing up obstacles in their path with a limited number of bombs.

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Pingus

Lead a band of penguins on a journey in this open source version of the classic Lemmings.

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Plasma Pong

Pong with a twist: inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area.

(The game is currently unavailable due to a trademark infraction, but — as of mid-2008 — the developer has promised something new. We’ll leave the link for awhile in the hope that he comes through.)

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plobb

Candy graphics and a fun story combine in this bubble-poppin’ Asteroids-style game.

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Pogo Sticker

It’s non-stop jumping — being careful not to hurt your head — as you make your way through funky levels to your destinations.

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Poker Solitarus

Try to improve your poker hand so you can win the bet.

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Polly-B-Gone

A plucky wheeled robot named Polly has been imprisoned by the nefarious Dr. Nurbs in his laboratory and must overcome a series of increasingly elaborate obstacles to regain her freedom.

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PySol FC

More than 1,000 (yes, you read that right) solitaire card games in one app, including all the classics.

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Quinn

Use Quinn to play Tetris the usual way or challenge friends on the network.

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Also try: Sporktris   Quinu

Sauerbraten

First-person shooter with gorgeous graphics based on an open source game engine.

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Scorched3D

Tanks battle it out in this modern version of the old DOS game, Scorched Earth. Up to 24 players can play at the same time in a variety of changing environmental conditions and terrains.

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Scrabbalize

Input the letters from your Scrabble hand, click the button, and see all the word possibilities — for those times when you’re really stuck.

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Simon Extreme

Observe increasingly complex colour patterns, then try to copy them without making a mistake. Just like they did in the ’70s.

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Snake Quest

Your snake grows with your Snake Quest as you gobble up crystals, making it tricky to manoeuvre.

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Also try: snake3d

Solitaire Greatest Hits

A dozen high-quality solitaire card games rolled into one, including the classic Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Pyramid, Canfield, Aces Up, Golf, Scorpian, Yukon, Baker’s Game and Forty Thieves.

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Solitaire XL

Play solitaire Klondike style with big and beautiful cards. A transparency option lets you feel like you’re playing on your desktop.

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Solitarus

Similar to the Klondike card game of solitaire, with splendid graphics.

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Spin Around

Line up the coloured balls and make them disappear, either by moving rows left and right, or by spinning the whole grid around.

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Stella

Multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator lets you enjoy favourite games from the 1980s on your Mac such as Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Missile Command and Pac-Man. Download ROMs needed to play the games from AtariAge.

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SudokuAdept

Completely fill a grid with numbers so that every row, every column and every three-by-three block contains all numbers from one to nine.

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SuperBrain

Get this Mastermind clone in a version similar to the original, a more advanced version involving shapes, and of course a widget.

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Also try: MyNevermind

SuperGHOST

Compete with the computer to avoid spelling words.

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SuperTux

It’s just like Super Mario, but with SuperTux, you get Tux the Linux penguin.

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Supertuxkart

Race against friends or the computer in a variety of racetracks reminiscent of Mario Kart.

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The Battle for Wesnoth

A turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme sees you build up a mighty army so you can regain your rightful place on the throne of Wesnoth.

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Tintin

A neat little yahtzee game using Tintin characters.

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UFO: Alien Invasion

Protect Earth from an alien invasion by controlling your base, training your troops and researching deadly, new weapons. Similar to X-COM, but with new features added.

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Ultimate Othello

A strategic board game, Othello (also known as Reversi) involves surrounding your opponent’s pieces to make them your own. Variations include MacIago and Reversi Unlimited.

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Also try: MacIago   Reversi Unlimited   Reversi

Warsow

Standalone first-person shooter based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine), aimed at competition. Developed “by gamers for gamers” with a focus on movement, speed and tricks when playing.

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Warzone 2100

As a commander, you must carry out various assignments in this real-time strategy game. For example, you may have to build a base, explore new technologies, deal with scavengers, and give manufacturing orders.

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X-Moto

Physics play an important role in this 2D motocross platform game. You’ll be pushed to the limit in an effort to control your bike as challenges become increasingly difficult.

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