How to play Powerless on Mac
Game summary
How Long Can You Survive?Powerless is an interactive fiction experience set in present-day London which explores the devastating effect of a global power cut.
Guided by the brutally honest and frank AI "MAUDE" (Mobile Assessment Unit of Disastrous Events) you will be assigned unique personas based on answers to psychological profiling questions. Once briefed, you will enter into the simulation and experience different stages of the Powerless catastrophe.
Explore as many personas as you can and try to keep them alive long enough to discover how deep our reliance on technology has become. As you move through the simulator, MAUDE will judge you on your honesty, selfishness, bravery and resourcefulness.
First released: Aug 2018
Play Powerless on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Powerless 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).
Powerless 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 Powerless like you would on any PC.
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