How to play Surviving Mars: Green Planet on Mac
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Game summary
The Green Planet expansion includes a wide range of gameplay features that will change the way players approach life on the Red Planet. For example, players can seed vegetation across the surface to give Mars a breathable atmosphere and use landscaping tools to shape the land to fit their needs. Green Planet continues Haemimont Games’ and Paradox Interactive’s support for Surviving Mars and their commitment to enhancing the core gameplay experience for all players, including a free update launching alongside the paid expansion.
First released: May 2019
Play Surviving Mars: Green Planet on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Surviving Mars: Green Planet 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).
Surviving Mars: Green Planet 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 Surviving Mars: Green Planet like you would on any PC.
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