Games folder icon for macOS on Apple Silicon Macs

With Apple pushing Mac-gaming on Apple Silicon & modern macOS, it’s due for a new revision of my custom-made «Games»-folder icon to use in Finder.

Download the new «Games» folder icon

There are now 2 versions of the icon: one is the classic version I use since many years, and in addition there is a new «retro» style. Both icons now come as proper icns-file and can be applied by drag’n’dropping onto a Folder’s «Get info» dialog.

Applying the icon to a folder in Finder

In Finder, select a desired folder and display the «Get Info…» dialog via right-click – or by pressing ⌘Command+i.

Then drag’n’drop one of the .icns-files from the unzipped Games folder icon pack onto the folder icon (within the «Get info» dialog).

That’s it! 👾

Preview of a custom Games folder in my User Home

Older version for previous macOS / OS X needed?

Use the links below for downloading a previous edition of the Mac Game folder icon:

• 2021 – 2022: macOS 12 Monterey and 13 Ventura
• 2014 – 2020: Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite to macOS 11 Big Sur
• 2007 – 2013: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Kudos and resources for creating Mac Icons

While (re-)creating this new version of the Games folder icon for macOS, I researched and used the following inputs and tools:

• Terminal commands to convert a PNG to a .icns-file via «Ask Different»
• The amazing «FolderArt» online tool by christianvm 👏