How to play Star Wars: Rivals on Mac

Game summary

Confront your rivals in the first real-time Star Wars competitive action shooter designed specifically for your mobile device. Choose from a cast of iconic characters that span all eras of the Star Wars universe while mastering your skills in cover-based PvP skirmishes. Build the ultimate combat team, anticipate your opponent’s strategy, and leverage your surroundings to gain the upper hand. Battles are fought both in single-player campaign scenarios and real-time PvP battles. Take aim, fire, and obliterate the competition. Features: Take aim with fast-paced shooter gameplay. Avoid taking damage by strategically utilizing your surroundings, targeting and destroying your enemies with mobile-optimized controls. Face-off in real-time PvP skirmishes against other players cross-platform on iOS and Android. Assemble a team of three unique characters and swap them in-and-out the heat of battle, instantly altering how the game is played. Defeat opponents in mission-based scenarios to earn epic rewards and power-ups. Dominate enemies and take down rivals in adrenaline-fueled boss fights across familiar environments like Takodana, Jakku, and Bespin. Build the ultimate roster of iconic characters from the Star Wars universe, master their unique powers and abilities, and upgrade them to unleash their full potential in PvP combat. Prove your power by climbing leaderboards and defeating Daily Rivals to claim Credits, Data Tapes, and Arena Chips to unlock rare characters and loot crates.
First released: Jun 2017

Play Star Wars: Rivals on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Star Wars: Rivals 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 Wars: Rivals 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 Wars: Rivals like you would on any PC.
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