Cyberpunk 2077 finally lands on Mac but you'll probably still want to play it on a PC

It's a great game and reasonably well-optimized, but modern Mac hardware struggles.

- BY JASON CROSS

The Mac just got one of the best games of the last decade. Cyberpunk: 2077 may have had a lot of technical issues when it was first released 4.5 years ago, but the ambitious open city, memorable story, and high production values helped gamers hang in there. Their patience was rewarded with a slew of patches to fix problems, rebalance game systems, add quality-of-life features, and more.

Now, coinciding with patch 2.3, Cyberpunk: 2077 is finally available for the Mac—on the App Store (fave.co/4o5m8bw), Steam (fave.co/3HG83RD), and Epic Games Store (fave.co/3Uxz7VG). So how well does it run? Is the game worth your time and money?

PERFORMANCE IS JUST OK

First, if you're running the macOS 26 beta (fave.co/40tNQ7w), you might as well not bother with Cyberpunk: 2077 right now. The menus load fine, but the game runs in a garbled broken state. The game will get an update to support new Metal 4 features (MetalFX Frame Interpolation and Denoising) to go along with macOS 26 later this year.

On macOS Sequoia 15.5, I tested the game on a Mac Studio with an M1 Max and 32GB of RAM, and a high-end Mac mini with the 14/20 core M4 Pro, 48GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. That's a $2,200 configuration. I also have an aging Windows gaming PC with a Ryzen 9 5950X, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super, and 32GB of RAM; a system with similar specs today would also cost around $2,200 with a newer and faster CPU.