Despite all the graphics capabilities of modern Macs, being a Mac gamer is generally a thankless existence. Every once in a while, though, Mac gamers get a bone thrown to them that is substantial enough that they think, for a brief moment, everything might be OK. One such bone has been thrown to us today— Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition just came out on macOS .

The game is available on Steam (those who own the Windows version on Steam automatically get the Mac version) and is planned for a later Mac App Store release.

Age of Empires II is arguably one of the greatest strategy games, and unlike too many of its real-time strategy (RTS) peers, it remains quite popular to this day and is still getting updates almost 30 years after its initial release.

The new Mac release is a port of the Definitive Edition remaster, which arrived in 2019. It comes with the original game’s first expansion, plus three of the more recent content packs: Lords of the West , Dynasties of India , and Dawn of the Dukes .…