Archibald is a cool skater in the neighborhood. He has the skills and courage to take on the biggest and baddest ramps out there, and there is one in a trash dump next to Professor Klumpfus’ mansion. Legend has it that this professor is mad, and has created some of the weirdest invention imaginable. While skating near the mansion, Archibald falls into the sewers, and is now in close contact with these mutants. As you navigate the maze of sewers on your trusty skateboard, guide Arch to the exit. Each platform level has a different way to pass it, and it is up to you to figure it out. The further you advance in the game, the trickier the levels become, so stay focused and alert. Guide Archibald to the safety of the exits, and enjoy skating around the dangerous sewer. For another platform mac game, help Gold Miner Joe explore the deep dark mines.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a secret agent? Always going on those top secret and ultra dangerous mission, protecting the World from all of the bad out there. Your journey as Dirk Dashing takes you to the Bavarian Alps in Germany. Your mission is to recover the seven largest diamonds in the World, which have been stolen by Pique Pockette, a World famous jewel thief. Once in Germany, pick up on Pockette’s trail and start your hunt. Collect money and health while searching for Pique, and get grenades for weapons. As you work your way through 30 action packed levels, collect stolen items, and take on other criminals in search of the diamonds. Enjoy this not so serious, but highly entertaining arcade style mac game, and please save the farm animals in Supercow.

Spirited Heart blends RPG game play with a classic life-simulation. Choose your alter ego, race, give her a name, select her social background and build up her early life through several unique choices. The game offers great replayability, featuring over 26 different endings. You can also find love and marriage in the game!

From time to time, random events will occur and you’ll also make random encounters: there are six potential partners for your character in the game, two for each one of the three races. Each partner will have his own personality and will react differently depending on which race you’re playing, offering over 100 different dialogue combinations!

This game blends one of those choose-your-own-adventure type books with a little bit of material from a dating sim game, to present a submission that is nearly entirely story-driven. The graphics are professional, and the game builds on that by showcasing the author’s writing skill with multiple story-arcs, and portrayal of various characters’ lives and personality traits.

For a game where a player reads, and occasionally clicks an item from a multiple-choice response menu, it is a surprisingly engrossing experience. The author paints a frighteningly familiar picture of a college student deciding what to do with his life, and influenced by the people with whom he wants to spend his life.

If you thought your quest ended by finishing the first game, Dream Chronicles, you will be glad to know that is not the case. Dream Chronicles 2 is here and will keep your imagination going strong. Continue the quest you started by helping Faye save her family and bring them home. As you Journey on, escape wonderfully designed scenes by figuring out what you must to do. It might be puzzling pieces together, or breaking glass windows to escape the room. As you travel from room to room, you might have to find hidden objects to help in your quest to escape and venture closer to Faye’s family. Dream Chronicles is an intriguing hidden objects mac game, and the sequel is up to par.

A truly entertaining game that takes some thinking and a sharp eye, Dream Chronicles is one of my favorites. It is part hidden objects, part escape the room, and a whole lot of fun. The great story line is about Faye waking up from a dream and finds her husband has been kidnapped and her whole town has been put under a sleep spell. Fidget, Faye’s husband has left her clues as to his whereabouts and it is up to you to save her husband and the town. Start each new level differently, you might have to find hidden objects to piece together things like bridges or wagons or use you general knowledge to find out how to escape. There are great challenges in these beautiful scenes and the dream like music make it extremely fun to play. It makes you think and keeps you involved. Dream Chronicles is a great game for all skill levels. Please continue with Dream Chronicles 2 and Dream Chronicles 3.

This is one of the so called “dating sim”. One of the first to come to the Mac. They’re very popular in japan, but they have lots of fans even in the western countries.

Basically it plays like an adventure, and your goal is to get a date with one of the various girls present in the game. There are several choices to make, and many characters to meet. Some funny, others crazy, but each one with its own personality!

Visual Novels are like interactive books. You read a story, but from time to time, a menu appears with several choices available. Once you pick a choice, it will modify the course of the story.

In the case of this game, it will lead to one of the 3 different endings. The game is about Heileen, a cute 18 year old English girl who sails for the New World. During her voyage she’ll meet old and new friends and discover lots of secrets, and ultimately find what really wants for herself.

In Escape the Museum, you were playing a hidden object game for Mac from our main character, Susan’s point of view as she looked through artifacts in the crumbling museum while also trying to find her daughter, Caitlyn. In Escape the Museum 2, the POV is from David, Susan’s husband, who was at home at the time of the earthquake. There is much more adventure gaming and puzzle solving required in this game in addition to the main hidden objects game play. David is on one side of town and he’s got to cross the ruined city to get to the museum, where Susan and Caitlyn are. Get David to negotiate the broken city across town on his way to saving Susan and Caitlyn. If you can’t seem to get enough games like this, then try playing more hidden object games for Mac.

A morning jog turns up a spine chilling discovery, and a new wave of fear begins to hover over the beautiful city of San Francisco, much like the dense famous fog that rolls in every day. Enter the world of James Patterson, one of America`s most popular storytellers, and study murder scenes as Claire Washburn, Lindsay Boxer and  crime reporter Cindy Thomas. Look for hidden objects inside 9 investigations, brain-bending puzzles, strikingly-beautiful artwork, and an all-new spine tingling storyline. Discover the truth and stop a psychotic killer. Play another game like this: Agatha Christie’s Peril at End House.

In Avenue Flo, our good friend Flo is back but the game is surprisingly NOT a time management game. Described as a sim game for Mac computers, it’s rather, more like a set of various games and puzzles including some hidden objects, logic and a lot of adventure gaming. In the story, Quinn (of Wedding Dash fame) runs into too many problems right before the wedding of one of her clients, and it’s up to you (as Flo) to help her out. Explore three neighbourhoods of Diner Town (Avenue Flo, Bistro Bay and Yum Yum Square), meet people along the way for clues about what you’re suppose to do next, and pick up items to add to your inventory that you can use to solve puzzles. If you’re a fan of Flo games, you will probably connect with everyone because you’ll know all the characters from previous games. But if you don’t normally like these games, you might unexpectedly like it since it isn’t like all the other games. It’s also the first time, ever, where you’ll get to hear the voices of Flo and her friend, Quinn.

More Dash Mac games with Flo: Flo Through Time, Diner Dash, Diner Dash 2, Cooking Dash

The Sims-like game for Mac, Escape From Paradise 2, is the highly anticipated sequel to the excellent Escape From Paradise. In the first installment, you are left on your own on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Your mission there was to guide survivors of a shipwreck. While your goals there were to explore several islands to get your tribe to grow and thrive, in this sequel your main objectives are to find your soul mate and true love and become the noble and brave chief of the entire tribe. There’s so much to do, but you will have some help. Luckily, your loyal pet monkey will be by your side throughout your adventures playing through addictive mini-games and in completing numerous challenges to advance forward in the game, which all results in progressing as a tribal society. Here’s another similar mac game: Wandering Willows.

In The Clockwork Man, an aspiring engineering student in 19th century London, Miranda Calomy, receives a letter from her grand dad Cornelius, a famous scientist working and living in the other hemisphere, South America. He’s in a hurry to receive items for a project in the works. After ordering these parts, they mysteriously disappear and Miranda is to procure another set of these items and lug them over to South America herself, accompanied by her cute and trusty little steampunk sidekick, Sprockets. Of course, she hits a glitch here and there, and well, things just don’t go as planned, so there will be some improvisation required to problem solve along the way. The Clockwork Man features unique zoom-in and scroll across game play along with strange flying airships, science experiments, steam-powered machinery and engaging gadgety puzzles.

Play more games like this: hidden object games for Mac

I’m happy to announce that the adventure with Titus continues after the success of Azada 1. I suppose you actually managed to help Titus escape the pages of the first book – but now, he seems to need your assistance once more. Your mission is to destroy a magical spell. How will you do it? Step into 20 books to solve more puzzles inside well-known stories from classic tales. Hang out with Rapunzel, King Arthur, Henry Jekyll, Buffalo Bill and other familiar characters while you attempt to lift a menacing spell inside Titus’ uncle’s library.

Similar: Drawn The Painted Tower, Campfire Legends The Hookman

One of the most powerful magicians of all time has decided to invite the top 10 illusionists to his scary castle. Each magician is to conjure up his best act, the most compelling and entertaining routine he or she’s ever done. The person who performs the unbeatable magic trick will be honored with access to the magician’s secrets, secrets which are previously unknown to anyone else. Things turn tricky, as in the world of magic, nothing is as it seems. One of the competing magicians is trying to kill the host. To find out what happens next and who the guilty person is, play through magic tricks and puzzles in this this hidden objects game.

Games like this: Trapped The Abduction, Mystery Masterpiece The Moonstone, Cassandra’s Journey: Legacy of Nostradamus, Campfire Legends: The Hookman, Princess Isabella, A Witch’s Curse

Like yesterday’s game for mac, someone’s trapped but instead of being trapped in the wicked world of a psycho serial killer, this time it’s inside pages of a book. How do so many people get into these kinds of predicaments? I can’t tell you because I have no idea but it makes a good story for a fun game, anyway. Doesn’t it? In the game Azada, poor Titus is stuck inside a book and the only way for him to be released is for you to solve the tricky puzzles of Azada.

Similar Game: Drawn The Painted Tower

Get ready to scream around the campfire as your group tells the most bone-chilling stories ever. One story revolves around a couple getting away for a romantic weekend only to find the cabin ransacked. What a mess. Who would do such a thing? As they begin to straighten up and put things back in place, they realize someone is lurking about. Who is it? Keep yourself and your sweetie from harm’s way as you search for life-saving items and play through various challenging puzzles. Keep your eyes open at all times and watch your back!

Games like this: Princess Isabella, A Witch’s Curse, Escape Rosecliff Island, Azada

Princess Isabella’s castle is cursed. Yes, every, single room in the grand palace is under a spell. Not only that, but her friends and family have been locked up in mirrors! In this engaging point and click adventure, help Princess Isabella! Please? The game features marble shooters, logic puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, adventure quests, even a quiz – and it will keep you happily occupied wandering around this enormous regal home, solving, playing and ultimately defeating the wicked witch who cast all the spells. If you’re a gamer who loves point and click adventure games like Azada, Campfire Legends The Hookman, and Drawn the Painted Tower you will most likely enjoy this game.

Iris, a powerfully imaginative artist, is missing and thought to be locked up in a tower filled with curses and mystical hallways, rooms and floors. Her own creative world moves her to draw and paint phantasmagorical scenes that vividly come to life. The malevolent king wants to capture her so he can use her powerful magic for malicious purposes. In this wonderful and absolutely well-made adventure game, take the time to unlock each floor and hallway, as well as solve puzzles and quests to bring you closer to finding Iris and save her from the evil clutches of the king. If you’re a gamer who loves point and click adventure games like Azada and Campfire Legends The Hookman, you are sure to love Drawn the Painted Tower.

Guess what, folks? Remember World Mosaics? And how you’ve been waiting for a sequel? World Mosaics 2 for mac…is back. This time around you will head back to the puzzle adventure, which sends you all over the world. However, since you have tracked the origins of the Sea People to the legendary city of Atlantis, there still more to do from there. Now, travel back in time thanks to the power of the magical hourglass. From the ancient wonders of the Jurassic period through the Dawn of Civilization and to the awe-inspiring Renaissance, solve 90 story puzzles while restoring the hourglass of the Pelasgians. Afterward, what’s left to do? Return to your own time.

Following the success of the original Escape from Paradise, the developers of this awesome sim game have released a sequel. So if you wanted more, you got more! While in the first edition, there was a shipwreck on an unknown island and you were urged to discover the place and help grow the island’s population. In part two, your mission is to explore an island but your main goal is to find a soulmate and to become the chief of the tribe. All at the same time, you’re to help the islanders learn skills, build bridges and homes, and get them to increase in population. You will have a cute, little monkey to wander around with you, and he’ll help you when necessary. You’ll have adventure quests, mini-games and a whole lot of fun.

Similar games: Wandering Willows, Virtual Villagers, Virtual Families and My Tribe.

In this real-time strategy simulation game, become the most powerful tradesman in history as you venture along the treacherous Silk Road in search of exotic products. Doing business there is much more dangerous than ever before and you’ll find yourself engaging in real-time battles. You will embark on the most exhilarating quests, discover a long, lost world filled with secrets and you will be able to explore legends and hidden cities of mythical creatures. Fierce and loyal warriors are at your command as you build the most prestigious and influential trading caravan the world has ever known. To play more real-time strategy games for mac, click here.

Ever wonder how it feels to be an actual deity? Grab this very rare opportunity with Sprouts Adventure and become the Great One to your Sprout disciples. They could use your assistance and wise guidance powers. The Sprouts dwindled in numbers until only a few remain. Guide them back to their original peaceful, prosperous and populous existence. Grant some wishes, help them innovate by inventing new toys and get them to be a productive and happy community they once were way back when. In this adorable sim game, play God and see what you create or what you destroy… After you’re done playing God, play one of our favorite sims for Mac, Build a Lot.

Remember in Miss Teri Tale 1, there was an investigation being conducted because Jason the dog mysteriously disappeared from Peeking Town? The sequel has nothing to do with that storyline but it’s all good. This time around, Miss Teri Tale leaves her life behind as a famous novelist to go into politics. She’s decided to run in the municipal elections for mayor against an icky opponent named Crow. From there, the excitement begins so hang on tight and prepare yourself for an engaging hidden object game that will be hard to put down.

The highly anticipated sequel and part three of the Dream Chronicles series continues with The Chosen Child. In this award-winning installation, discover hidden clues and solve challenging seek and find puzzles while you join Faye on her quest to save her daughter from the clutches of the Fairy Queen, Lilith, and reveal the secret prophecy of The Chosen Child. Dream Chronicles 3 is a refreshing blend of Adventure and Hidden Objects craftfully blended together in a game.

Take a trip to a teeny tiny village called Tribesville, and meet a group of creatures called Wobblies. These wobbly creatures are pacifists, and it turns out that they’ve lived in peace for thousands of years living their own quiet lives hanging out at the beach and catching necessary vitamin D rays from the ever-present sun. Sadly, their lives were turned upside down and their calm village started to show signs of duress as imminent danger approached. The food and water supplies ran low and hyenas began depleting their essential resources. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to help evolve the Wobblies into a strong, productive, and self-sufficient tribe of doctors, builders, foragers and guards…before it’s too late. If you liked Virtual Villagers and My Tribe, you will probably enjoy Wild Tribe.

Out of the blue, a strange family has contacted you because they claim to hold the secrets to your past. You will need to repair the various errors in time in this unique hidden object mac game – in order for you to be able to take your rightful place in the Flux family. Discover and explore famous historical sites like the Wright Brothers` workshop, Hatshepsut`s tomb, Benjamin Franklin`s study and more. Flux Family Secrets: The Ripple Effect gives you the opportunity to readjust the timeline by finding misplaced objects scattered through time and solving mind teasing puzzles.

This game has to be one of the few RPG games that takes sim game elements, so much so that we’d almost categorize it as a sim but because there are quests to achieve, an inventory of collected items, level ups, and strategies connected with RPGs, it would only be fair to say it’s much more of an RPG incorporating sim game play. In any case, it’s a fun diversion from every day life. What happens, is you and your hot air balloon break down in a mysterious place and your main goal is to get it fixed so you return to the sky, up, up and on your merry way. Meet the towns quirky characters and remember their personalities, likes and dislikes. Do them favors and gain more confidence from the locals. Your success will be a way to gain access to your ride home. Train one or many cute pets that will help you on your mini missions and to advance closer to your goal. Consider Wandering Willows a cross between The Legend of Zelda, Nintendogs and Virtual Villagers or The Sims.

The game developers who made the popular and addictive Virtual Villagers…are baaaack. If you like sim games you will love Virtual Families, a game for Mac that runs in true-real time. First adopt a person but understand their needs so you can move on from there. Then take him/her on the adventure of a lifetime. Will he meet the love of his life and start a family? Hang out with him and get him to live the life you’ve always wanted to live yourself. Like real life, your Virtual family’s lives will go on, no matter what, even when you’ve turned off your Mac. You will be anxious to get back to your desktop to see what has happened!

The settlement at Hope River has been demolished by an evil varmint, the Mad Russian, a villain who is determined to take down the town. Residents are hitting the trail and getting out of Dodge. Yes sir, they are fleeing the place for safer territories. Your job is to steer the fortunes of three different pioneers as best as you can, as they establish a new outpost in the Wild West. Will you be able to uncover the Mad Russian’s base of operations? Wrangle resources, prevail against natural disasters and chart out new territory as you guide your settlers to safety and success. Gamers who loved Be a King, Build a Lot, Build a Lot 2, Build a Lot 3 and Virtual Villagers will probably really like Westward II Heroes of the Frontier.

You have become a King and also part of the Kings Architectural Society, a modern twist on multitasking royalty. With so much to do such as building villages and communities and keeping your people well and happy and content with their ruler, you will be a busy little King bee. Build and grow the beautiful floating kingdoms and watch your realms thrive. Other similar games: Be a King, Build a Lot.

In this combination RPG, Adventure and Hack n Slash game, DROD, you will venture deep into King Dugan’s dungeon, solving puzzles and fighting monsters. DROD is packed with hundreds of rooms, monsters, obstacles, and other elements. You will have to solve 350 rooms, which will challenge your brain muscle and you will learn what happens next in the story, which is full of surprising twists, turns, events and characters. This most stand out game will be one of your all time favorites and you’ll be able to play it for a very, very long time – which is the best when you really get into a game. With DROD, it will take you some time to finish but consider that a good thing. Need more RPG games?

Chapter 2 of the popular simulation game for Mac, Virtual Villagers, continues on with a new story and more intriguing game play. This time, you’re to follow two curious, determined villagers as they wiggle their way into the darkest recesses of a cave that had long mystified them. Discover this new mystical cave that leads into dazzling sunlight and mist, with a magnificent waterfall. What they discover past this area will surprise them as in this new region, they see a land filled only with…children! Afterward, to continue on with the saga, play Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret City.

Virtual Villagers mixes up a couple of popular media icons: LOST, the series, which is modern take on Gilligan’s Island, and The Sims. In the case here, just a few survivors are lucky enough to escape a destructive volcanic eruption. Days of drifting in the sea leave them disoriented and lost but evenutally they land ashore a mysterious island. They are completely unfamiliar with it but everyone seems to agree that it’s an isolated paradise! Take care of the villagers and help them strive in this addictive simulation game. The real-time elements of Virtual Villagers make it so that each time you turn your Mac back on to play, new things have already happened! Don’t miss the events. Make sure to continue with Virtual Villagers 2 and Virtual Villagers 3.

Somewhere over the rainbow there’s a land you’ve heard of but it’s not the same place with flying monkeys, lollipop kids or munchkins. You will, however, find the Scarecrow, Lion and Toto. Yes, Toto, too! Of course, they will not resemble the characters you fondly remember from a classic old movie. In this Oz, aka Emerald City, you’ll be on an investigative job to solve the mystery of a missing person, which leads to the unraveling of a bigger conspiracy. Follow the case through five chapters of suspects, allies, puzzles and witnesses in this adventure game version only roughly based on The Wizard of Oz. For more adventure game challenges, try Summer Session.

Immerse yourself in a fantasy strategy game where you become the ruler of a medieval kingdom. Begin as a prince and try to reign over your land with dignity and decorum. Make certain that the villages, towns and big cities thrive as you build and maintain them. Keep an eye on everything and take a firm stand and defend your minions against hordes of bandits and monsters. Fulfill your duty as a righteous ruler, then you may consider the dream of becoming a courageous king who leads fearlessly and compassionately. There are 25 adventurous and original levels to explore. After you’ve finished, try out another RPG adventure game: Avernum 5, an epic fantasy adventure through an immense underworld of intrigue.