Ways to purchase?

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Oh there isn't any standalone version for Mac? Don't get me wrong I like Steam - for example years ago I bought the 'Orange Box' for the PC. I switched to Mac this year, and when I logged onto Steam and was able to download the Mac versions for all the PC games I had bought - free of charge.

As handy as that was, my issue is I also don't like having to rely on the Steam client to play a game. I had an issue recently where my internet connection was down so I had no way at all to play my games as it required authentication with Steam before it would allow me to play. Yes you can tell it to go into 'Offline Mode' but you need to be online to sign in in the first place to even go offline. Frustrating.

Can anyone verify if there is no standalone version of the game?

And Mike - I used to use Windows, then Linux, and now that I've used a Mac I never want to go back, especially after trying out Windows 7 - what an awful operating system!