How to play Galax Defender on Mac

Game summary

Control your fighter, with its unique ability to combine with other fighters, and shoot down the invading aliens! Aliens attack in formations using a variety of attack patterns. Rescue a captured fighter to combine with it, forming a Dual Fighter with twice the firepower! Earn Perfect Bonuses more easily by using a Dual Fighter on the Challenging Stages! • The same, exact, good old gameplay you remember • Fast paced arcade action right into your device! • Combine your fighters for augmented firepower!
First released: Feb 2017

Play Galax Defender on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Galax Defender 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).

Galax Defender 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 Galax Defender like you would on any PC.
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