Tadaa, I am now mirroring the iPad Air’s screen to the beautiful 5K iMac Pro screen. But my iPad is free at that point and I can switch to it to play while the iMac computes stuff in the background.Īll I need to do is open the iPad’s Control Center by swiping down from the top left part of the screen and press the Screen Sharing button and Select my iMac Pro. Generating a lightmap at huge graphical details can take a while and can use up 90% of the CPU and GPU power. Sometimes I have to work on very complex projects and scenes for my games. I can use the iPad as a secondary display for my iMac Pro when I’m working and I can use the iMac Pro as my iPad’s screen when I want to play something. Using SideCar and Screen Sharing to play Mac games on an iPad (and vice versa)īoth the iPad running iPadOS 15 and the iMac Pro with Monterey have the ability to share their screen with each other. It doesn’t have Apple Silicon so I can’t leverage all the iOS games that modern Macs can. If I want to game on my iMac Pro my options are a bit limited. The Red Stop sign is added by me, but look on the left of most games in the list. This is how a big chunk of my steam library looks like right now. A lot of the games, especially older games, don’t work on it anymore. A ton of my Steam Library isn’t playable on it anymore. So it’s safe to say I’m not getting rid of the iMac Pro any time soon. I can make a build for a complex iOS games in minutes on the iMac pro while on the 2014 MacBook? It would take hours. It’s fast and compared to the previous 2014 MacBook Pro I was using, the difference in speed is like night and day. Since a lot of my clients revolve around making games for iOS Devices, I purchased an iMac Pro in order to make games for them. I’m a Game Developer and Designer and I do a lot of freelancing and contracting work for the mobile gaming industry. The Problem with my $6000 iMac Pro – and how the iPad can fix itįor the past two or three years I’ve been using an iMac Pro as my workstation. So yes, you can play Mac games on an iPad. And a lot of older Mac games that won’t work on modern Macs are still updated and available on the App Store making the iPad an even better gaming device than an Intel MacBook running Catalina or newer. However, a lot of games have been ported and are available on the iPad and that got me thinking: Can I use my iPad for gaming instead of my Mac? Can you play Mac games on an iPad? Your Answer Upfront:Ī lot of modern Mac games have been released on the iPad, offering you a huge library of games to play.

While I was doing research for the list of games to include in that post I had a weird feeling: a lot of the games I’m including in the list and talking about aren’t really playable on modern Macs anymore.Īpple, starting with MacOS Catalina, dropped support for 32bit apps, which meant losing compatibility with your library of old games. Yesterday we wrote an article on using the iPad as a retro gaming device.

Steam games compatible with mac