How to play Saints Row IV: Re-Elected & Gat out of Hell on Mac

Game summary

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected After saving the world from a terrorist attack the leader of the 3rd Street Saints is elected to become President of the United States. Things go reasonably well until an alien warlord named Zinyak attacks the white house and abducts his entire cabinet. Now stuck inside a reality bending simulation, the President and the Saints fight to save themselves, Earth, and the entire galaxy… if that all sounds crazy to you, trust us: we’re just getting started. Saints Row: Gat out of Hell In this standalone expansion epilogue to Saints Row IV, join Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington on an Orphean quest to save the Boss’s soul from the bowels of Hell. Come for the demon killing, stay for the historical icons, open world shenanigans, talking gun, and full length musical number. Yes, seriously.
First released: Jan 2015

Play Saints Row IV: Re-Elected & Gat out of Hell on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Saints Row IV: Re-Elected & Gat out of Hell 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).

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected & Gat out of Hell 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 Saints Row IV: Re-Elected & Gat out of Hell like you would on any PC.
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