The Best Top-down Games for Mac OS

Update : NAIAD added at rank #20.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale (2021)

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

Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a whimsical adventure game that lets you color your way through a black-and-white world as a plucky dog-character. With simple controls, fun puzzles, and no enemies in the main game, Chicory encourages exploration and creativity. Its beautiful art style and emotionally resonant story about self-discovery and overcoming self-doubt make it a work of art that everyone should experience.

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What we like:
  • Fun puzzles
  • Simple controls
  • Beautiful art style
  • Emotionally resonant story
  • Encourages creative exploration
What could be improved:
  • Boss battles can be challenging

  • puzzle
  • zelda
  • boss-fight
  • adventure
  • top-down
  • cooperative
  • platform
  • boss
  • cute
  • combat
  • battle
  • controller-support
  • exploration
  • colouring
  • local

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Mokoko X (2022)

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

Nostalgic arcade gameplay remastered! Conquer the bigger portion of the screen and save the unlucky girls from the various absurd troublemakers.


  • dating-sim
  • top-down
  • arcade
  • boss
  • bullet-hell
  • anime
  • pirates
  • villain
  • shoot-em-up
  • cute
  • funny
  • story
  • 2d
  • naval

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Entropy (2022)

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Android Mac OS PC Windows

Shoot. Build. Upgrade. And shoot some more. Pixelated chaos on a monster-filled space station.

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  • boomer
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • parkour
  • shoot-em-up
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • arcade
  • platform
  • survival-horror
  • tps
  • surreal

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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.


  • top-down
  • violent
  • shooter
  • gore
  • narrative
  • difficult
  • stealth
  • retro
  • crime
  • action
  • pixel
  • psychedelic
  • combat
  • cover
  • twitch

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Lumencraft (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Lumencraft is an addictive and action-packed game that combines mining, strategy, and tower defense elements. You play as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, where you need to mine resources, build structures, and defend against swarms of enemies to find the Lumen crystal, the last hope of mankind. With its destructible environments and multiple game modes, Lumencraft offers a unique and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more.


What we like:
  • Fun and engaging gameplay with a unique combination of genres
  • Destructible environments add a realistic and immersive touch to the game
  • Multiple game modes and custom maps add replayability
  • Good value for the price
  • Devs are responsive and supportive.
What could be improved:
  • Lack of online multiplayer co-op
  • Limited variety in enemy types and traps
  • Lack of guidance on achievable goals can be frustrating
  • Visuals could use more flair
  • Translation is not perfect.

  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • shooter
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • thriller
  • wave
  • mining
  • rpg
  • twin-stick
  • rogue-like
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • action

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Tap Wizard 2 (2024)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Choose your Spells, Perks, and Traits, then let the Wizard do all of the work in this unique Idle RPG! Tap Wizard 2 is a fusion of the Idle, Incremental, ARPG, and Twin-Stick Shooter genres, resulting in a game like no other!

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  • idler
  • fantasy
  • top-down
  • rpg
  • hack-and-slash
  • dark
  • clicker
  • pixel
  • action
  • pve
  • character
  • combat
  • inventory
  • 2d
  • management

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Zombie Soup (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Android

Zombie Soup is a top-down shooter combined with hack and slash action that follows Ricky, a backpacker who is thrown into an unexpected adventure in an unfamiliar town as he shoots and dodges his way through hordes of bizarre creatures and challenging bosses to save a kidnapped girl!

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  • top-down
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • zombies
  • rogue-like
  • psychedelic
  • 1980s
  • bullet-hell
  • dungeon-crawler
  • surreal
  • boss-fight
  • post-apocalyptic

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12 is Better Than 6 (2015)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS

12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down hardcore shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The action takes place in 1873, the noon of lawless and cruelty all over North America.


  • top-down
  • stealth
  • first-and-third-person
  • western
  • shooter
  • non-interactive
  • cover
  • trial-and-error
  • horses
  • action

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Endoparasitic (2022)

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Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.

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  • survival-horror
  • top-down
  • lovecraftian
  • minimalist
  • zombies
  • stylized
  • space
  • horror
  • dark
  • action-adventure
  • noir
  • 2d
  • stealth
  • abstract
  • exploration

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Police Stories (2019)

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Xbox One PC Windows Linux Playstation 4 Mac OS Nintendo Switch

A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!


  • top-down
  • shooter
  • tactical
  • protagonist
  • cooperative
  • villain
  • online
  • crime
  • swat

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