The Best Action-adventure Games for Mac OS

Update, : Conur Life added at rank #25.
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The Wild at Heart (2021)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

The Wild at Heart is a beautiful and joyous tale of discovery, full of quirky characters, exploration and puzzles. You play as Wake, a young scallywag searching for excitement who stumbles upon an adventure to save the world and reunite the Greenshields. With its hand-drawn art style, mysterious creatures and day-night cycle adding tension to the gameplay, you'll be sure to have some exciting escapades!


Pros:
  • Quirky characters with unique traits
  • Beautiful artstyle
  • Light combat & puzzles that increase in difficulty
  • Day-night cycle adding tension to the gameplay
Cons:
  • The standard loop:go here - do that
  • Parts of the narrative are well-honed

  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • crafting
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • fantasy
  • emotional
  • time-management
  • pikmin
  • adventure
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • loot

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Beasts of Maravilla Island (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS Playstation 5

Beasts of Maravilla Island is a 3D Adventure game coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS4, and PC. Embark on your adventure as an aspiring wildlife photographer in the hidden, magic jungles of Maravilla Island. Explore a mysterious 3D island and solve puzzles to discover extraordinary creatures, interact with them in their natural habitat, and photograph the enchanting, unique behaviors you reveal!

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  • collectathon
  • relaxing
  • 3d
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • dragon
  • exploration
  • cute
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • non-challenging
  • family-friendly
  • pencil
  • magic

3

Tomb Raider (2014)

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Xbox One Playstation 3 Mac OS PC Windows Xbox 360 Android stadia Playstation 4

Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.


  • puzzle
  • stealth
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • cover
  • combat
  • platform
  • action
  • shooter
  • narrative
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • fight
  • underwater

4

Resolutiion (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Resolutiion is a fast-paced action-adventure created by two angry German brothers leading a band of vagrants who loaded it with lovely pixels, dirty jokes, deep ideas and badassemotional tunes for 20 hours of punishing combat, rewarding exploration, and layered storytelling. Will you be the player or will you be played? In the Infinite Empire nothing is as it seems.Explore a fractured future, gathering weird weapons and stories, to piece together the past: a friend betrayed, a family broken, worlds at war. To solve the mystery of the Cradles take on a multi-cultural-mashup of cynical gods, emotional machines, zealots, luddites, and furry critters in a world that doesn’t care if it confuses or kills you — oh hey, a kitty!


  • action-adventure
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • boss-fight
  • exploration
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • mystery
  • boss
  • story
  • cyberpunk
  • assassin
  • atmospheric
  • fight

5

Cleo - a pirate's tale (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.


  • investigation
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • logic
  • linear
  • narration
  • top-down
  • comedy
  • point-and-click
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • funny
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • retro

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Harmony's Odyssey (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.

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  • platform
  • puzzle
  • character
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • logic
  • magic
  • action-adventure
  • local
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • customization
  • fantasy
  • colourful

7

Cold Heart (2021)

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Mac OS Linux Xbox 360 wii u Playstation 3 PC Windows

Fight and protect the cold heart against the fire creatures in this magic game.


  • collectathon
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • survival
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • magic
  • counter
  • pve
  • casual
  • crime

8

Onirike (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Dreams are fed by our own desires. They dwell within us since we are born and this is what we call them until they become real. But… have you ever wondered what happens to dreams that never come true?Onirike is an original 3D adventure, puzzle and platformer video game which takes place in an intricate open world, designed with a non-linear narrative and presented with a peculiar audio-visual aesthetic.Throughout the game, the player will take the role of Prieto, a strange being unaware of his own nature, but who has the rare ability to become invisible. Exploration, stealth and cultivating gypsophila flowers will be key to unveiling the story of Prieto and the orb in which he lives.Main features:

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  • platform
  • open-world
  • conversation
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • surreal
  • narration
  • 3d
  • psychedelic
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • fantasy
  • stealth
  • sandbox
  • blob

9

The Genesis Project (2022)

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early access PC Windows Linux Mac OS

The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.

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  • rpg
  • party
  • memes
  • base-building
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • 3d
  • tag
  • exploration
  • customization
  • crafting
  • management
  • fantasy

10

Arcane Arts Academy 2 (2022)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows

Return to the world of magic for another academic year!

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  • casual
  • action-adventure
  • time-management
  • point-and-click
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • adventure
  • tutorial
  • narration
  • 2d
  • story
  • fantasy
  • funny

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