There are a few places to get Mac games, other than the App Store.
A few of the larger ones:
Steam lists 2500 games for Mac.
GOG or Good Old Games has 1297 games for Mac.
macgamestore.com, has hundreds in each category.
There are quite a few others, and reviews of them are available online if you want to know which is better or worse than another, and why.
gamersgate.com
gamesrocket.com
amazon.com/mac-game-downloads
gameagent.com
aspyr.com
ubisoft.com
ea.com
The reason we’re here is for games.. and knowing what’s good *before spending money* is important, go read reviews. There are many review sites, and they all have “best of” lists.
http://www.macgamerhq.com/top-games-for-mac/
What do I play?
More like what do I still play? aka what still works on El Capitan.
Quinn, a Tetris game, which you can still download from macintoshgarden.org
The Tiny Bang Story, a kids puzzle game.
Cave Story “Doukutsu Monogatari” is a great side scroller ported to the Mac. A bit of fiddling required to get it to work, but worth it! Start here: http://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php
Bungie. What else do I need to say? Yep. Halo. Myth, and many more. Halo 5 just came out.. for Xbox. Although Microsoft did port 2 games to iOS (instead of Windows Phone, what a surprise!) : Halo Spartan Assault and Halo Spartan Strike.
Yes, You can still play Halo, from 2004, using http://halomd.net
You can stil play Myth as well, using Project Magma.
But we’re not limited to just Mac games.. we can run emulators as well. One that I have used on occasion is Boxer, which lets you run DOS games.
Shout out to Ambrosia Software and one of my all time favorites: Avara! Apparently I can run it under emulation. Still making games after 20 years!
I’m sure i’ve missed many, what are your favorites?