How to play Star Shield Down on Mac

Game summary

For centuries the Gorlakari Empire have tormented your people with continual raids on your star systems. Now a new threat has emerged where the Gorlakari have developed a multiple layered shield system of immense power. The technology is advancing quickly and there is no choice but to find their prototype ships and destroy them. Your star fighter must be used to eliminate all twenty of the increasingly more powerful Gorlakari StarShield Destroyers before it is too late.

Play Star Shield Down on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Star Shield Down 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).

Star Shield Down 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 Star Shield Down like you would on any PC.
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