I used the Unarchiver from the app store to unzip the file. It opens up but nothing appears. I tried redownloading the zip file and re-unzipping but same result. The only thing I can find different compared to other people's files from posts is the .rpgsave file not being an "executable" (i think). I have Mac Sonoma. Is this just my device being weird or mac being annoying?

It seems like some Mac system can have troubles with the game, but I don't know which exact systems or under which circumstances. Do you have the same problem with all RPG Maker games?

Someone on a different site posted this suggestion for a Mac user recently. Please let me know should that solve the problem:

"You can use something like Parallels desktop as virtual machine for arm windows, works just fine for me (m1) except dark scenes. 

Dark scenes can be fixed by adding "chromium-args": "--ignore-gpu-blacklist", in file package.json, but this option can randomly freeze visuals in battles (forcing you to relaunch game, so, enable autosaves).

If you have older mac, google compatibility layers, should work better than virtual machine."