The Best Philosophical Games for Mac OS

Update : unFRAGMENT. added at rank #41.
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Shape (2023)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Android PC Windows

A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

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Tux and Fanny (2021)

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

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.


  • soccer
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • nature
  • retro
  • capitalism
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic

3

Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

While visiting his sick father, college student Wei Qiuwu accidentally encountered a girl playing a concertina. Until one day someone unveils to Wei Qiuwu the cruel truth hidden under a fairy-tale cover Features * A storyline of 8 to 12 hours, * Multiple routes and endings. * An extraordinary story, themed with love and caring in an ordinary slice of daily life.

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  • 2.5d
  • philosophical
  • choices
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • beautiful
  • realistic
  • modern
  • anime
  • colourful
  • cute
  • story
  • atmospheric

4

Manifold Garden (2019)

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Mac OS IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.


  • abstract
  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • nonlinear
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic
  • experimental
  • minimalist
  • multiple-endings
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • colourful
  • mystery

5

Everything (2017)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.


  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • walking-simulator
  • interactive
  • relaxing
  • experimental
  • exploration
  • narration
  • grand
  • tps
  • surreal
  • true-to-my-life
  • controller-support

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Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.

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  • philosophical
  • lovecraftian
  • visual-novel
  • dating-sim
  • choices
  • psychological
  • immersive
  • anime
  • simulation
  • modern
  • conspiracy
  • mystery
  • mysterious
  • political
  • story

7

The Wreck (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Mac OS

In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.


  • narration
  • dynamic
  • drama
  • choices
  • conversation
  • philosophical
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • cinematic
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • story
  • stylized
  • psychological

8

Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way.


  • audio
  • production
  • meditative
  • philosophical
  • park
  • walking-simulator
  • abstract
  • nonlinear
  • conversation
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • minimalist
  • surreal

9

Bear's Restaurant (2019)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

What will you have for your last meal? In this restaurant, the dead will have their last supper. Hamburgers, omelets, sushi, pudding, anything. Let us cook your favorite dish when you were alive.

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  • cats
  • soundtrack
  • japanese
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • rpg
  • choices
  • cute
  • story
  • mind-bending
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • dark
  • linear
  • jrpg

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Metamorphosis (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows 3.x Mac OS

Got Game Entertainment re-released the game in December 2004 as Bad Mojo Redux, packaging it with a DVD containing a variety of extra material.


  • philosophical
  • noir
  • short
  • walking-simulator
  • dark
  • 3d
  • beautiful
  • supernatural
  • detective
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • story
  • parkour
  • first-person

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