Click on to discover the best Mac games available on the Mac App store and elsewhere. Once you're done, check out the best PC games This article has been updated for TechRadar's Mac Week. Why we love RPG Games. Role-playing games, also known as RPGs, allow you to immerse yourself in a character and move through that person's story.

Adventure and role playing games have always been a part of computer games. They started as text-based adventures like the original Colossal Cave. Rogue introduced a graphical twist, and Wizardry pushed the boundaries even further during the salad days of the Apple II. Modern Mac and PC gamers can run online role playing games like World of Warcraft and Dungeons & Dragons Online. Not to mention what dungeon crawl action RPGs like Diablo have done for the genre.

But there was an era of computer role playing games that for me always stood apart - graphical RPGs that rendered imagery using isometric (three-quarters views) perspectives. One of the high points of this particular style was BioWare's enormously popular Baldur's Gate series, which has returned in renewed form over the past couple of years, but it's not the only one of its ilk.

So I've rounded up my favorite from this particular genre that you can still download and play on new Macs, and present them to you now. Avadon 2: The Corruption. For 20 years Spiderweb Software has been making RPGs. Their inspiration from Wizardry and other RPGs of the classic era are obviously, and they meticulously craft their games to give you hours, weeks, even months of play value as you go on grand, epic quests, innumerable side quests and then replay again as a different class of character. Avadon 2 puts you in the role of the Keep of Avadon, working as a spy and a warrior. Your goal is to save your homeland from destruction.

You can master five different character classes, each with different special abilities and spells, and the choices you make throughout the game will dramatically affect its outcome. As the name implies, Avadon 2 is a sequel, but you don't need any experience with the first Avadon game to get the most out of this one, so don't let that put you off. There's a nice big demo version you can download if you want to kick the tires, too. Visit the for details. • $9.99 - Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition. We might as well get this one out of the way right up front: Baldur's Gate II is back and better than ever.

The game has been rebuilt to run on new Macs and PCs (you can also download an iPad version if you prefer). This game follows Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules and is even set in the Forgotten Realms, a world created for Dungeons & Dragons adventures. It simply reeks of D&D authenticity. Quickbooks for mac 2016 support. It's also terrifically fun to play. Baldur's Gate II. And the original game, are both available as 'Enhanced Editions' with new party members, new dungeons to explore and other new content.

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition rolls together the original game, Shadows of Amn, with a later released expansion pack called Throne of Bhaal. What's more, there's a new high-level combat pack called The Black Pits 2. Four all-new characters can be included with your party. (Baldur's Gate II on the iPad, as well.) • $24.99 - Eschalon Book II.