Download Cyber Knights: Flashpoint for macOS

Pick your crew and plan the heist

Fans of tactical RPGs who like pulling off the perfect job will slip right into this turn-based squad game. You build a team of mercenaries, choose your approach, and adapt when guard patrols or cameras get in the way.

Run it on an M4 Mac mini

Tested on macOS Tahoe with Apple Silicon, the 2D environments and turn-based pace keep things responsive. Independent AI drives each enemy, so firefights feel reactive without hammering the frame rate.

Work the faction web

Reputation and privilege systems track who trusts you, which opens or shuts down jobs. A custom story engine weaves your squad into events based on earlier choices, so two runs rarely play out the same way.

Bump camera speed to avoid misclicks

Before you lose a squad member to a misclick, hop into the options. The default camera speed can feel a touch sluggish on larger maps — bump it up two notches so you can scan a room without dragging your mouse arm off the desk.

Turn on always show cover indicators. The game uses environmental cover without a grid, which is freeing but means a clear shot isn't always obvious. With this on, you'll see lines of sight and protection ratings at a glance, rather than thumbing through tooltips mid-heist.

If you plan to play across devices, the Steam Link support noted in recent updates means you can pick up a session on an iPad without reconfiguring a thing.

Where it bumps into other apps

As a native Apple Silicon app, Cyber Knights sits comfortably alongside the rest of your Mac workspace. It handles Spaces and Mission Control gracefully — swipe back to Finder or a browser without the game fighting for focus. Fans of the Trese Brothers' earlier title Star Traders: Frontiers will spot shared DNA in the faction and talent systems, though Flashpoint pushes further into environmental tactics.

If you use screen recording for after-action breakdowns, the game plays nicely with QuickTime and third-party capture tools. No weird resolution juggling needed. And since the soundtrack is instrumental, you won't trip over background vocals when editing clips later.

Picking crew for a two-stage extraction

You load a mid-game safehouse, check the faction board, and spot a two-stage corporate extraction job from a contact you've kept happy. Pay is solid. Risk: snipers on overwatch.

You drag your hacker, a street samurai, and a stealth specialist into the deployment screen — the hacker because you spotted a camera grid on the blueprint, the samurai for when things go loud, the stealth op to slice the first patrol route. You spend five minutes modding the samurai's shotgun, swapping in a choke that tightens spread at mid-range. Cyber knights flashpoint torrent of ideas for a loadout can wait; this mod fits the tight corridors in the first stage.

The heist starts quiet. Your stealth specialist slips past a guard rotation, tagging patrols so the team sees them through walls. The hacker disables a turret remotely. Halfway through, a camera catches the samurai's shoulder — alarms blare, two drones lift off, and the initiative bar scrambles as your squad scrambles into cover behind server stacks.

Overwatch activates automatically on one merc. The enemy AI splits: one drone flushes your hacker out of cover while the other pins down the samurai. You burn a talent to manipulate the turn order, letting your hacker pop a smoke grenade and vanish. By stage two, your squad is bruised, traits are ticking up, and the extraction zone is three turns away. That's the rhythm Flashpoint nails — plan, react, limp home, upgrade.

• New content expansion and outfits added with the launch update.
• Now supports Steam Link and cloud gaming for mobile play.

• macOS 12 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel
• 2 GB RAM
• 12 GB storage