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They should appear as cute little icons in the right sidebar of the games store page both in the web browser and the Steam client.

Does Steam Work Mac Specific Games

Steam says I have fewer Mac specific games than total games and it should be an equal amount unless you can only download, install, and play once from your account.

I thought I bought it so that it would work across all operating systems.

If this is true, is there a work around or a discount for re-purchasing for the other OSes.

Although like Kevin said you will loose a lot of games due to cross OS issues.

You cant run many of them in Steam on Mac natively, but you still own the games that youve purchased.

There should be no need to re-buy the mac versions of the same games, though you will need to download the mac versions of the game to your new computer.

That is why your mac specific games are less than your total number of games.

If you do that, you can install a windows version of steam and play your windows games there, but they are not mac native and may not work as well as you would expect.

The idea that the poster meant any specific operating system is at odds with the sentence, the paragraph, the post, and the thread.

My point stands. Unless its been stripped from the revision history, Im confused why you brought up consoles.

Does Steam Work For Free In Addition

Buying games with this label always gives you the Mac version or the Mac and Linux versions for free in addition to the Windows version of the software.

In that case, you will need to buy the new version that includes Mac support.

This has worked well for me with running games with complex graphics that might not be as optimized when running under Mac OS X.

This has the advantage of not needing to reboot just to play a game and you also dont need to repartition your disk (or boot from a secondary disk).

D games do run accelerated in VMware Fusion.

Youd think Civ 4 would have only two library entries (Civ 4 and Civ 4: Colonization), but instead its 2 DLCs each have their own entry, and each of the four entries is duplicated for its OSX version for a grand total of 8 Steam library items.

These games, obviously, will not run on your Mac and do not appear by default in your library.

Unfortunately, this is a technical limitation which generally cannot be worked around by giving Valve more money.

WINE, as mentioned in another answer, may give you some success, but in my experience, it is very case-by-case in how well it works.

You might be able to copy the steamapps folder from Windows to Mac, but I dont have experience doing that cross-OS.

It does work reasonably well from Windows to Windows, though.

At the very least, it might let you just validate integrity of game cache instead of re-downloading from scratch.

Unless the OP has a tight monthly download cap, Id recommend redownloading over micromanaging the games files.

Not a criticism of the OP, but simply if youre asking this question, you need to ask a lot more questions before youre safe to perform the potential solution.

Does Steam Work For Mac