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I can only imagine this would be the case. There's not really any Intel-based Macs worth supporting anymore (macOS won't even be updated for Intel models anymore) and the performance delta would be outrageous.
We do know that a handful of devs work with macOS regularly so it's not out of the question, just a long ways down the road.
Personally I would love to see how the game can run on my M4 Pro mini.
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Support for anything other than Windows will come down to cost/benefit analysis. Maintaining and supporting multiple builds is a much bigger effort than most people realize, and supporting public builds for like 1%-2% of the gaming public (MacOS/Linux) would require a *huge* active, contributing user base.
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All true. It's a whole other pipeline for developing, troubleshooting, & QA and it adds up. Each platform could well imply multiple additional employees each.
I think at least in regards to macOS there are lots of opportunities in the educational space that would help justify the effort considering that's part of the vision for the game's legacy. Lots of US universities have Apple authorized campus stores and certified service centers on campus. You could Air Drop the game across a whole classroom from one local copy in minutes.
Similar to RW's internal connection with Nvidia for technical support it's not unlikely that they could (try to) build a similar relationship with Apple. Apple conducts a lot of education outreach and developer workshops for writing compatible software.
If Apple and Hideo Kojima got Death Stranding to run on the iPhone, there's hope for KSA to run on a MacBook Pro. Eventually. It makes sense that its Windows only for now, especially this early. But hey, the more options the better.
Yeah macOS 26 is the last version for the Top end intel Macs and sometime in 2027-2028 the Intel to M-serris translator layer will be removed
As nice as native MacOS support would be, I think it's fully sufficient to target a smooth experience via Crossover. I think they even offer professional support for game studios to get their Windows game running via Crossover.
As a game dev, I would target that and get those people on board early on. This is probably the leanest solution for Mac support.
As a game dev, I would target that and get those people on board early on. This is probably the leanest solution for Mac support.
Just posting to show the fact that I would love macOS compatibility
Also, if anyone's interested, I managed to get the game to install and run using this tutorial even though there seem to be some graphical glitches. I'll play around some more.
(Obviously this is not a complaint to the devs, I love the fact that this launches using Crossover at all)
Also, if anyone's interested, I managed to get the game to install and run using this tutorial even though there seem to be some graphical glitches. I'll play around some more.
(Obviously this is not a complaint to the devs, I love the fact that this launches using Crossover at all)
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Whisky "works" for me if I disable AA, terrain, and ocean.
Some experiments here:
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I have a new working install method as of 2025.12.33.3123. I used Sikarugir and with a few config tweaks the game does run! There are some funky graphical glitches at the moment but maybe that's something that can be fixed via graphics settings or other setup configs.
How to:
How to:
- Install & launch Sikarugir
- Install the latest Wine engine (I used WS12WineCX24.0.7_7), create a new wrapper template (mine say 1.0.5), and create a new blank wrapper.
- Set the configurations:
- "Configuration": Enable "DirectX to Vulkan translation layer - (DXVK)"
- "Advanced": Enable "MoltenVK FastMath" and disable "MoltenVK - (CodeWeavers version)"
- Launch the new wrapper app and select the KSA installer in the path field.
- Launch a Test Run to let the installer do its thing.
- Change the path in the "Configuration" tab now to the KSA.exe created by the installer.
- Launch a new Test Run to verify the game opens.
Hello everyone! I followed Kiwi Shark's guide and got it working pretty easily. It does seem to be capped at 30FPS through, even with 120Hz selected and Vsync off. Thanks for the guide!
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Glad to hear it works for others! Maybe someone with more practice doing this kind of thing can figure out the frame rate if possible. Better than nothing though!
I could see Apple getting behind something like this, would make a nice WWDC demo showing off the latest M5/6 Max/Ultra hardware. Imagine having a bunch of 5K displays, one running a separately rendered view out each of the spacecraft window running concurrently plus another with an external view of the spacecraft. The recent and soon to be released Macs have some serious render per watt and render per dollar capability that Apple is selling to AI servers farms but make sense as a game machine if only more companies would build native for macOS.
But given there's so much low level graphics programming in this I can understand the reluctance. I think I read that Brutal has a macOS version, so that's a good start, but yeah only a start.
In the absence of native macOS (ARM), a really well tuned version for use under Crossover would be a second best request, perhaps?
I managed to get recent KSA builds working, however the process is a bit complicated.
Recent KSA updates seemingly broke any methods posted here, due to KSA using DrawIndex (which wasn’t supported until 2 days ago as of writing)
However, by replacing your MoltenVK with one built from the latest source code (as of May 29th 2026), it can now run the latest KSA version at the time of writing this! (don't worry, it's not as complicated as it sounds!)
I used Sikarugir, but other tools may work.
What I did:
Now for the tricky part, replacing/updating MoltenVK. You can get the version of MoltenVK I used from here: MoltenVK-macos. (as of writing this is the latest official build I could find, this should work fine. Compiling yourself should work too)
If all goes well, KSA should launch without crashing instantly! I have not tested this for other systems, but would be glad to hear if anyone else is able to do this as it should work for just about everyone!
I have been getting intermittent crashes but it should be solvable with some settings changes.
This process worked for me on macOS 15.7.4 on an M4 max as of May 29th 2026.
Thank you to Kiwi Shark and the guide they made which helped point me in the right direction!
Recent KSA updates seemingly broke any methods posted here, due to KSA using DrawIndex (which wasn’t supported until 2 days ago as of writing)
However, by replacing your MoltenVK with one built from the latest source code (as of May 29th 2026), it can now run the latest KSA version at the time of writing this! (don't worry, it's not as complicated as it sounds!)
I used Sikarugir, but other tools may work.
What I did:
- Install Sikarugir
- Install the WS12WineSikarugir10.0_6 engine, download the latest wrapper template (I used 1.0.11) and create a new blank wrapper.
- Enable MoltenVK FastMath and disable MoltenVK (CodeWeavers version)
- Select the KSA installer in the Windows app selector
- Launch Test Run and install KSA as normal (don’t launch once installed, it will crash)
- Change the Windows app to the KSA.exe file created by the installer (default location "C:\Program Files\Kitten Space Agency\KSA.exe” )
Now for the tricky part, replacing/updating MoltenVK. You can get the version of MoltenVK I used from here: MoltenVK-macos. (as of writing this is the latest official build I could find, this should work fine. Compiling yourself should work too)
- Find the file libMoltenVK.dylib in the zip file (usually in MoltenVK/dynamic/dylib/macOS/libMoltenVK.dylib ), and copy it.
- If using Sikarugir, find your wrapper’s file (for me it was in /Users/yourusername/Applications/Sikarugir ), and right click and select Show Package Contents, then navigate to MacOS/Frameworks, then paste the libMoltenVK.dylib from earlier, replacing the old file.
If you are not using Sikarugir, this process will not work, however it is theoretically possible to do the same for other tools.
If all goes well, KSA should launch without crashing instantly! I have not tested this for other systems, but would be glad to hear if anyone else is able to do this as it should work for just about everyone!
I have been getting intermittent crashes but it should be solvable with some settings changes.
This process worked for me on macOS 15.7.4 on an M4 max as of May 29th 2026.
Thank you to Kiwi Shark and the guide they made which helped point me in the right direction!
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