I love Full Deck Solitaire which is available for free on the Mac App Store. It occasionally pops a small dialog at startup asking if you want to buy added games for it but one click and it's gone. Otherwise, the game is entirely free and it looks really nice, has a fun ending screen when you win and nice convenient UI for moving the cards around with ease. I never bothered to look elsewhere after finding this one because it seems pretty much perfect to me.

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The cards are really nice looking too. Pretty darn nice for a free game. At some point I really should pay for the added games, not because I want them actually but simply because this app is really nice and I have had many hours of fun playing it.

Reap is a low-key, sepia-toned survival sim – think Minecraft on a Gameboy and you’re not far off. Here, your ship has broken up on the rocky shore of a mysterious island, and it’s up to you to make the best of it. Despite the simple presentation, there’s a lot going on. You’ll need to manage your hunger and energy levels by eating turnips – but you’ve only got a finite supply.

To survive in the long term, you’ll need to plant more, scavenging tools by exploring the map for promising flotsam. It all keeps you rather busy. There’s also an overarching goal of recovering the pieces of a treasure map and digging up a chest filled with unimaginable riches – but if you ever want to find it, you’d better tuck into those turnips! All told, there’s far more depth to Reap than you might first assume.

So if you’re looking for somewhere to lose yourself for an afternoon, why not visit Reap’s island and see what you can unearth? Universal Paperclips is a ‘clicker’ game: a simple, browser-based game where you repeatedly click your mouse to make a number go higher. Sounds a little dry – but clicker games are brought to life by colourful themes, unlockable features and surprising twists and turns for patient players.

This game is no exception – and it’s created something of a stir across the internet since its release. You take control of an artificially intelligent computer at a paperclip factory. Your simple job – initially, at least – is to make and sell as many paperclips as possible, managing production, marketing and R&D. Program to copy cd to cd for mac. But this is a game with wings. Before long, paperclips are a secondary concern: your ever-more-powerful AI is too busy playing the stock market, solving world hunger, and curing male pattern baldness. To reveal much more would be to spoil the fun. But there are hours of slowly revealed fun to be had here, and an epic scale barely hinted at by the game’s humble beginnings.