How to play Riff Racer on Mac

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Game summary

Riff Racer brings a fresh twist to music gaming. FOAM’s innovative MEGA engine takes any piece of audio and analyses it down to its core components and creates a unique stunt filled racing experience from it. Not a rhythm game, but a challenging arcade racer where you race the song itself and score for how well you stay in Sync. Action on track is synced to the audio - players literally have to race the music to stay in time and score points. Verses, choruses and drops become checkpoints, and the environment, colours and cars are styled to the genre of music you're playing. Experiment with your music collection and find out which songs make the best racetracks! Score big for staying in sync, whilst performing stunts, jumps, drifts and rolls!
First released: May 2015

Play Riff Racer on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Riff Racer 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).

Riff Racer 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 Riff Racer like you would on any PC.
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