How to play Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition on Mac
| Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
FIGHT ON!
Discover your Killer Instinct! Play the legendary fighting game with stunning 60FPS visuals, over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!
Features:
• Includes all 26 characters from Seasons 1-3, including Shadow Jago, Rash from Battletoads, Arbiter from Halo and General RAAM from Gears of War
• 20 stages with intense stage destruction
• Killer Instinct Classic 1 & 2 for Xbox One
• Explore the lore, characters and history of Killer Instinct with all-new behind-the-scenes videos, trailers and art
• All the music of Killer Instinct, including Killer Cuts
• Competitive online multiplayer matches with state-of-the-art fighting game netcode
• Test your skill online in Monthly Ranked Leagues
• Cinematic story modes
• Extensive Dojo tutorial teaches all the core mechanics for Killer Instinct
• Train an AI combatant and challenges your friends to asynchronous matches in Shadow Lab
Xbox Live Features:
• Play Anywhere with online multiplayer Cross Play with Windows 10 and Cloud Save between Xbox One and Windows 10
• Killer Instinct includes rich Xbox Live features like Achievements, Game DVR, Leaderboards and more
First released: Sep 2016
Play Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition 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).
Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition 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 Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition like you would on any PC.
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