Get Beyond Sunset 1.0.2 for Mac

If you've spent time with the breakneck pace of classic DOOM mods but wished for a heavier narrative and character building, the rhythm here will feel like a natural, vicious evolution.

Story — A street samurai named Lucy wakes from cryostasis with no past. A woman called Yuri offers a deal: use your innate combat skills to recover what was lost.

Campaign — Five full episodes of cyberpunk action, pitting you against 29 distinct enemy types and 4 bosses.

Combat — A first-person shooter with RPG bones. You move fast, shoot faster, and sharpen your edge through 39 player upgrades spread across the run.

Arsenal — Five weapons to master, each tuned for the kind of close-quarters chaos a neon-drenched dystopia demands.

What the 1.0.2 build quietly fixed

Version 1.0.2 landed as the full release, and the patch notes weren't flashy — but they smoothed over the kind of friction that wears you down across five episodes. Texture alignment got a pass, so those grimy Sunset City corridors no longer show seams where wall panels meet. Controller bindings stick after you set them, which matters if you're the type who remaps jump to a shoulder button and never looks back. Key prompts now match your actual input device instead of defaulting to a keyboard glyph when you're holding a gamepad.

Saves are less finicky around switches. In earlier builds, flipping a console and then reloading could leave the switch in the wrong state, locking progression. That's sorted. The scoring system also got corrected — nothing you'd notice mid-firefight, but if you chase clean runs, the numbers now add up.

Snags you might still hit

The installer is straightforward — mount the disk image, run the standard installer, and point it to your Applications folder — but a couple of post-launch hiccups trip people up. The most common one shows up on Apple Silicon Macs: the game launches to a black screen and sits there. The fix is usually giving it explicit permission under Privacy & Security in System Settings, since the engine wants access to input monitoring for raw mouse handling. A restart after granting that permission tends to clear it.

Another snag involves the music-only audio track. There's no voiceover, and the game doesn't subtitle everything that happens in-engine. If you're combing through torrent listings — some tagged Beyond Sunset Mac torrent — you'll sometimes find repacks that strip the soundtrack to save space. The game runs without it, but the atmosphere takes a hit. You want the full disk image to get the intended mix.

Lastly, the flicker toggle in the options menu is easy to overlook. If the gunfire strobe leaves you squinting, dig into the display settings before you tweak brightness — it's a single checkbox that makes a bigger difference than you'd expect across a multi-hour session.

Visual comfort — A rare quality-of-life touch: an option to disable screen flicker when firing guns, keeping the action readable during long sessions.

Version 1.0.2 ships the complete vision: 5 episodes, 29 enemies, 4 bosses, 5 weapons, and 39 player upgrades. The update also irons out texture alignment, controller bindings, key prompts, switch behavior after saving, and scoring quirks.

• macOS (native ARM and 64-bit x86 support)
• Interface language: English