How to play Cat Busters: Collections on Mac

Game summary

Created as a free game to let players play with their cats again, Collections is a memorial app for "Cat Busters" whose service had previously ended in March 2018. This Neko Atsume-style take on the original Cat Busters has the player use canned food to attract cats into the garden to once again help repair the machine that was broken in Dr. Neko's experiment. Every cat appearance will net the player a coin, and each repair on the machine utilizing these coins gives another can of cat food. A kitty photo album not only fills up with images of each unique cat the player sees, but also allows them to see all of the animations from the original game. New cats exclusive to Collections will also appear.
First released: Nov 2019

Play Cat Busters: Collections on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Cat Busters: Collections on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Cat Busters: Collections installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Cat Busters: Collections like you would on any PC.
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