Subverse Mac < iPad >

Abandon Ship (for now). Have you gotten Subverse running on your Apple Silicon Mac? Let us know in the comments below.

By Alex Gardner

For now, the Subverse Mac community remains in the cold void of space. The waifus are waiting, Captain, but your Mac is not ready to fly. You are better off building a $600 Windows gaming PC than buying a $2,000 MacBook Pro to run this via translation. subverse mac

First, there is and Metal . Apple deprecated OpenGL years ago, forcing developers to use their proprietary Metal API. Converting the shaders, particle effects, and dynamic lighting of Subverse —which were optimized for DirectX 12 on Windows—into Metal is not a simple "export" button. It requires months of optimization to prevent the game from running like a slideshow on even the most powerful MacBook Pro. Abandon Ship (for now)