How to play Cookies Must Die on Mac

Game summary

Meet Jack. Jack is a super-secret agent with special powers implanted in his body by government scientists! He has to stop a group of evil, mutant cookies and their powerful bosses before they reduce his city to rubble! Hurry! Grab the best weapon and sling onto the battlefield! Start an intense and exciting war. Crush your enemies, survive the attacks, defeat huge bosses with your smart movements and skills. Remember! Cookies must die … even the sweetest ones. The greatest challenge you can find is already here, peppered with moments of platforming and sheer destruction. Time to become the real hero! Crush and smash as many enemies as you can (deadly jellies, angry cookies, threatening chocolates and many more sweet but dangerous characters). Cookies Must Die is a fast-paced, platform-based shooter game of epic action with easy-to-play but hard-to-master gameplay. Just swipe to jump or run and use the slow-motion effect to shoot with extreme precision. Slow-motion effects make the whole game feel like you’re in the Matrix. You can trigger slow-motion when changing direction and make it through corridors filled with mutant cookies without taking a single hit. Prepare for an incredibly addictive game with tons of surprising moments.
First released: Feb 2020

Play Cookies Must Die on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Cookies Must Die 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).

Cookies Must Die 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 Cookies Must Die like you would on any PC.
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