74 Macworld • February 2022MAC GAMING
number of ways to play League of
Legends, thanks to its large library
of Champions, each with their own
abilities: from warriors and mages to
robots, pirates and ninjas.PLATFORM GAMES
- Abraca
Price: £10.99 from fave.co/3DJO2BA
Abraca is the sort of game that you
might expect to find on the family-
oriented Wii console, rather than on
a Mac or PC. It’s also very much a
‘Marmite’ game – you’ll either love its
daft, multiplayer take on old fairytale
characters, or find the whole thing so
horribly twee that you want to throw
your gamepad at the screen.
The first thing to mention is that
Abraca is a game for playing at home
with friends – preferably fuelled by
considerable quantities of alcohol.
It needs two, three or four people to
play it, and each person will need a
proper gamepad controller. There are
two main parts to the game, with you
and your friends taking it in turns to
play the role of a handsome prince in a
platform game where you have to run
and jump past a series of obstacles
and monsters. But, as each player
takes their turn to be the prince, their
friends get to play as monsters and
fight against them to stop them from
reaching their goal. And, along the
way, other fairytale characters such
as Hansel and Gretel pop up, along
with an assortment of dragons, evil
witches and other monsters.
The other part of the game
features princess-on-princess action
in a kind of multiplayer arena brawl,
and the whole thing plays out with
the sort of annoying synthesiser
soundtrack that
accompanied all
those old ‘80s
arcade games.- Braid
Price: £10.99
from fave.
co/3pDJveI
The first time you
play Braid, you - might be forgiven