How to play Planet Busters on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

Planet Busters is a new single-player game from Slam, combining puzzle-solving action with awesome firepower and spectacular explosions. The mysterious Scourge have destroyed Earth. Now it’s payback time. With most of the fleet killed in the attack, it’s up to you and your fellow ensigns to eradicate the Scourge and make the galaxy safe for humankind once more. Use the tactical grid to solve puzzles and match rockets by color to trigger attacks on enemy ships, moons or planets. Deploy EMP measures; use missiles for extra fire-power; and collect power-ups to assist you in your mission – to defeat the Scourge. At all costs.
First released: May 2008

Play Planet Busters on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Planet Busters 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).

Planet Busters 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 Planet Busters like you would on any PC.
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