While not available for Mac (yet), today marks the release of Vic Davis’s Solium Infernum. It’s a thinking game, for lack of a better term. I’ve had the pleasure to see it in beta, and it’s one that’s had me conniving through late nights in attempt to one-up my fellow Archfiends.
Penny Arcade and Tom Chick have posted good words toward it.
If you have yet to play Vic’s Armageddon Empires, do so. It’s for both Mac and PC, though the PC version runs better even when virtualizing through VMWare or the likes.
In many ways Solium Infernum is of the same family as Armageddon Empires, though they appeal to different sides of the strategic mind. AE plays more immediate and relies on one’s tactical management in the moment. SI lends itself more toward forward-thinking, intuition, and the desire to aggress through rather subversive ways.