How to play Planetes on Mac
| Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
In Planetes you are free to build your spaceship, explore the stars, find asteroids, moons and planets, which you can extract resources from and build bases on. Create alliances with friends and wage wars against your enemies.
There are intentionally very few restrictions in this game, allowing the player to follow whatever path they desire.
First released: Oct 2017
Play Planetes on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Planetes 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).
Planetes 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 Planetes like you would on any PC.
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