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About This Game

Release Date: May 31, 2016 146 Players*

Continue the story of the outbreak and see another paradise gone to hell - fully remastered.

Paradise gone to Hell!

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

The Dead Island Experience

Smash heads, crack skulls and slice ‘em up with visceral astounding melee combat and true story-based 4 player co-op in a sprawling open world just waiting for exploration.

Features

  • Includes all previously released DLC!

  • Fully remastered: Experience Dead Island: Riptide in crisp full HD with improved graphics, game models and a photorealistic lighting system with physically based shading

  • Adrenaline-Fuelled Combat: Smash heads, crack skulls and slice ‘em up with the weapon of your choice in the visceral astounding melee combat

  • Seamless Coop Multiplayer: Collaborate with your friends, live through a story of the struggle for survival in a world gone mad

  • Experience the atmosphere: Experience the dense atmosphere - feel the destruction, the horror and madness. Immerse yourself in the turmoil that is taking place on the Island.

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How To Play Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition on macOS

Playable

Great news, Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition can be played on macOS using any of the methods below:

  1. is the most popular way to play Windows games on macOS. You can play Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition using CrossOver.

See game reports below for details.

Game Reports

See how well this game plays on macOS.

Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition is not natively supported on macOS. See below for ways you can play it that have been tested.

Playable
2 Game Reports
Perfect
0%
Excellent
50%
Good
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Poor
50%
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MacGamer

Poor 1080p < 1 Hour Played 30 FPS

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Tahoe, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    Parallels (Windows)

    v26.0.1

  • Launcher Steam
  • Graphics Preset Custom

Additional Information

Although steam showed the frame rate was 30+, movement felt like you're on ice. I had graphics set to best performance.

MacGamer

Excellent 1440p < 1 Hour Played 38 FPS

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Sequoia, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    v25.0.1

  • Launcher Steam
  • Graphics Preset Custom

Additional Information

I had graphics at Best Quality with motion blur off and FPS was between 38 and 48.

Moving the mouse pointer was screwed up for me. I was unable to use the mouse but my controller worked perfectly.