I don't know about mac but there are WAAAY more games we could play on ios than there are on android. Not that there aren't any but not as many and not as diverse. Thats beginning to change thankfully.
Also you have to take into consideration how difficult it is to port stuff from platform to platform.
Try checking out applevis for mac audio games because I know they're out there. In fact, oriale gomez is working on one if memory serves

Hi.
Because of the negative energy in the first post, I will let you find out for yourself what great games we have for the Mac.
So, you are bitching at the developers for not making accessible games for the Mac. Well, learn Python, and start making more accessible games for the Mac than we already have. If you are just that negative, then do something about it instead of just sitting there complaining about everything.
If you really are a gamer, then you have the choice of installing Windows. But instead, you just limit yourself and complain. You also have the choice of using Wine, which I don't have much experience with. But the options are there, if you really want to play more games than we already have.
Regarding IOS: Well, I don't agree there. We have a lot of audiogames there as well.
Again, it just seems like you are complaining the hell out of everything, instead of trying to do something about it.

Hmmmm, Eric I sort of wonder where you got the idea that there are no audiogames for the Iphone. As people have said there are hundreds, go and check applevis or have a poke around the database over here.

As for the mack, no, there aren't many audiogames, but there are a few.
Off the top of my head there is change reaction and silver dollar by Draconis, the games from audio.it such as the inquisitor games, grail to the thief, A blind legend and blindscape, and possibly more that I am forgetting.

There are then plenty of browser games, and the mac interactive fiction player zoom which can play if games.

I've heard of a mud client called tintin that can run on mac, but I'm not %100 sure on that.

Either way, unfortunately yes, the Mac is a little under represented in audiogame terms as compared to windows or Ios, but that unfortunately is what happens when its difficult to write games for the system, indeed I'll admit that was part of the reason I decided not to get a mac myself.

Still, there are a few games out there and you can always run with wine etc, and Windows and Ios are going strong games wise.

Erik, I will spare you a rant because I'm tired. But I agree with everyone here. I'll admit, some of my favorite IOS games have gone for good because of no more 32 bit compatibility, which is sad. Smack Me, Echo here to Play, Mouse Kick, Ear Monsters, Blindside, and a few others I can't think of right now no longer exist. I also liked Sixthsense, but I'm not sure if that's around either. I won't mention Somethinelse because that is a more involved case, but those games are gone too. And I've heard that sideloading apps is not at all easy, so even if I still had .ipa files of those apps, they probably couldn't be transferred on my phone now, and even if they did, I doubt they'd run now. Meh. But, we still do have some games for IOS, and I haven't checked Applevis lately so there may be a few I don't know about. I also don't have a Mac, but if it will indeed be possible to port apps to Mac very easily, I hope some mobile games can take advantage of that! I've wanted to get a Mac for experimenting with things that I can't try on Windows, but I don't see myself ever using it full time, in fact the Mac may sit on a shelf forgotten because that's often what happens with my stuff. And there are too many irreplaceable Windows things for me, the plethora of old and new games being one of those things. Testing Mac games would certainly be one more thing to use it for though.

I'm genuinely curious about this. Why do we actually have more games for IOS than Mac? Is it just that mobile gaming is more popular than Mac gaming? Or, is there something else to it like differing requirements for IOS vs Mac?

Ian interesting stats, though also remember that in terms of this community there is far more by way of legacy stuff.
I doubt many but hardcore fans these days are running copies of quake and other early 2000's pc games, but in audiogame terms since the total pool of games is so small, any loss is keenly felt.
therefore windows is supporting quite  the legacy in gaming terms, as well as new releases.

Another question is that of screen reading software.
part of the reason the Iphone took off so well in the VI community is its inherent accessibility out of the box, and also how easy it is to make games accessible for the platform.

With NVda being increasingly a fully functional screen reader on Windows though, and the fact that even narrator is more than a token alternative these days, the argument that the mac provides out of the box access is a lot less strong than it used to be, which, along with its generally more expensive price tag is likely making it a less attractive alternative for Vi computer users, which in turn means less people have them, which in turn means less developers write games for them etc.

Then of course as others have mentioned is the fact that Bgt is not available for Mac.
Whatever people say about Bgt I can say its massivly increased the amount of games being produced, heck at risk of sounding like a grumpy old geezer, I remember the days when you were lucky if you got a new game release a month.

We're also getting more sighted developers involved with audiogames too, look at cases such as code 7, and theyy once again tend to produce games for windows, something which I cannot explain, though if indeed developing for the mac is inherently expensive in itself that might have something to do with it.

Though I heard in 2019 or so, MacOS Mojave would be able to runs the iOS apps. So if you happen to own an iOS game, you could try to run with your Mac, if the developer of the game willing to port their iOS apps to run on Mojave.

Eric, you ask why people can't "just make games for the Mac"—an example being A Hero's Call? Well, since you asked...

Let's travel back in time, to a time when a young idealistic creative lead (let's call him Joseph) was talking to a hard-working engine developer (let's call him Ian) about what platform AHC was going to be released on. "There's a great big market out there on Mac," Joseph said. "It would be so good if we could release on both platforms, wouldn't it? Think of how many more customers we could reach!"

You do know we can't just release the game as-is on Mac, right?" said Ian patiently, knowing that Joseph was pretty ignorant about these things.

"No," said Joseph. "I'm technically ignorant. Why can't we?"

"Well..." Ian proceeded to go into a bunch of technobabble that means nothing to Joseph. Things about libraries, and dependencies, and frameworks, and stuff that I couldn't explain to you if I wanted to, cause it's all over my head.

"So," Joseph said, pretending he'd understood anything Ian said, "what would it take to port the existing game over to Mac?"

"Basically I'd have to rewrite the engine," Ian said. "And then we'd have to maintain two separate versions of the engine, one for Mac, and one for PC. Oh...and you'd have to buy me a Mac, too, because I don't have one."

...so, you see, developing a game for two platforms essentially doubles the work-load for independent developers. This is especially true for blind developers who don't have access to modern engines and other tools that might make cross-platform releases a little more seamless. And if you want to suggest that developers simply contract out to have their game sported...let's just say I happen to know from some firsthand experience that the costs of porting a custom-built game to a different platform is considerable. So considerable that it's safe to say that nobody is making enough in the audio games market to make it a sustainable option.

So, I agree with your statement that it would be great if A Hero's Call was on the Mac. I really, really do. In fact, if you care to donate $20,000 or so to Out of Sight Games, or if you have a way of doubling our player base, we just might be able to make that happen. After all, as you say, now "all" we need to do is port it to Mac... Or you could go with Jack's suggestion, and use Wine. It's a bit cheaper, after all.

PS: Jack, your post #14 earned a thumbs-up from me.

+1 to 14 and 15
The thing is about San andreas, I got to hear someone playing it over Skype once, and the sounds are shit compared to the PC version. I don't know if I would buy it just for that reason alone, the quality is just not there, but that is cool that they were able to do that.

I think we need to start this a h c for mac auction while the bids are low. Ethin just pushed the minimum bid up by 5000 bucks! Lol. Minimum $70000 for Dustin the Apple I anyone? Lol. All kidding aside, I do agree with you on that, Ethin. Typically the people who pull this stun are the ones that don't even research let alone try to make their own games. You bought the Mac, arguably the most developer-unfriendly platform out there so live with the reality. Voiceover isn't that special anymore because the very company that was at the forefront of first party screenreaders is now trailing behind Microsoft and Google. So you really don't have much to brag about by owning a mac nowadays. I'm not just saying this, I feel the same way. The 13inch Macbook pro2015 used to be an unregretted purchase, never mind the 120mb...I mean 128gb ssd. Now just to upgrade my ssd I'll have to pay 500 bucks (yes it's a Transend jetdrive I'll be buying for those curious) and with powerful storage comes a high price. We hardly have this kind of money to throw around so as a developer, they too don't have the money to spend on a few macs to test their games on!

Plus Erick, how can you call yourself a gamer without hating the mac at least a bit. Ok, maybe a casual gamer from the sound of it, and a lot of folks are anyway so there isn't anything wrong with that. But it is the machine that demotivates custom-build market so much it's not even funny. You get a custom-build and can enjoy mac OSX in a hackintosh while it's still intel-based, because Apple is going to make future builds based off of their own chipset because they hate outside parties it seems. Frivolous lawsuits against Qualcom, yeah a few royalties not paid but cry me a river...stop selling $350 homepods and $1200 generation x-ish iphones and you might not be out as much. INtel, I wouldn't say they hate intel, after all it may seem like an amicable departure but the long and short of it is that they now want control over the mac down to the very last thing they can control. Where was I? Oh yeah, this means you can't, uh, virtualize the mac once they make the switch? So there. If you're a gamer you either love custom builds or you just love a lot of system resources if you're serious about getting a killer gaming machine. This whole death of Mac OSX innovation is for another topic though unless someone takes the discussion further. Lol.
No wonder Apple Maps went down, it's not like they had a sense of direction anyway. Lol! And this is sadly so far gone from what Jobs would've wanted. Speaking of which, where the hell is our open source Facetime, damn it! Lol.

Yes I am a gamer but I really love the mac.