We've been so busy loving on our iOS devices that Mac games have been in the backseat for a little while. But once we finally started looking at the Mac App Store, we couldn't stop noticing all the wonderful Mac games available for super cheap. Here's three we can't stop playing.

A Monster Ate My Homework

Free!
Geek Beach, Ltd

AMAMH isn't what you'd expect from reading the name. Instead of the side-scrolling 8-bit shooter the name implies, AMAMH is a cutesy gallery shooter in which you knock rectangular "monsters" off of a platform (which is perplexingly placed in the middle of a pond). In each level, there are three cubic piles of homework. For each pile of homework you knock off, you lose a star.

A three star performance is going to take some strategy.

Those stars aren't just for street cred, either. Stars unlock batches of new levels. The unlocked levels contain new monsters, which blow up like bombs or roll like wheels. As you continue raking up those three star combos, the gameplay continues to evolve at a brisk pace, making each level different from the next. Sometimes AMAMH is a physics game, other times it's a strategy game, and every once in a while it's just a white-knuckle fire-at-will reflexes game.

Be proud. Be very proud.

Galcon Fusion

$0.99
Hassey Enterprises

Galcon Fusion is a mixture of Strategery, Civilization Wars and Geometry Wars. In GF you command fleets that conquer planets. Each planet you conquer builds a new fleet, and you need to conquer all your enemies' planets to win. Meanwhile, your enemies (online or AI) are expanding their own fleets, and attacking your bases with the same objective.

This is what they call a slaughter.

It might be a familiar formula, but what separates GF from the legions of base-control games is the myriad modes included. There's a three-player mode, a mode where your ships crash into each other, a mode in which you only win if you "assassinate" certain planets, and a completely awesome retro mode which has to be seen to be believed.

Yeah, it's as hard as it looks.

Evac

$1.99
Hexage Ltd

Take Pac-Man, put him in a blender with a Neon Light, and pour in an escape-at-all-costs storyline and you've got an Evac smoothie. Evac might take more than a few cues from Pac-Man, but it's an entirely different experience then the famous arcade game.

Just look at that story.

In Evac, you have health, which means if you get hit once by the bad guys it's not game over. Plus, there are tons of power ups, from electricity that stuns your enemies to diamonds that swirl around you and cut them in half. Evac is an awesome adventure/puzzler. Anyone with a little nostalgia for Pac-Man or '80s Miami dance club style should pick it up.

Yeah, it looks familiar. But it's better.