Why can't I play games on my brand-new iMac late 2013?

Every time I try to play a game on my iMac, the screen looks like it freezes or lags so I cannot even close the game, or even close the iMac, so all I can do is force shut down it. Any suggestions except giving it back to the store I bought it? Did I spend 2249 Euros for nothing?
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB

For Grand Theft Auto, the only version I found that "Officially" still run native on the Mac and are in the Mac App Store are Grand Theft Auto II I released in 2010-2011 and Grand Theft Auto Vice City released in 2012.
The more recent versions of GTA IV and V are PC ONLY. NO official Mac OS X version for these.
There are no other versions available on the Mac App Store! so those should run on your Mac with little issues as it is designed to run on OS X 10.6.6 and later OS X versions.
From the GTA website posted in Feb 2014,
https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200147266-Macintosh-system-r equirements-and-specifications-for-Grand-Theft-Auto-III-Vice-City-and-San-Andrea s
AND, the GTA web link does not mention any support for OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 OR 10.10.
So, I am not sure what versions of these games you purchased and where, but it would appear the recent versions of these games are NOT OS X supported.
You would need to install the proper version of Windows on your Mac to play these games.
If you are running the latest Tomb Raider that is available on the Mac App Store either Tomb Raider Essential or Tomb Raider Underworld, both should be able to run on your Mac. Tomb Raider Underworld runs on OS X 10.6.6 or later and Tomb Raider Essentials runs on OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks and later.
You might be having issues with these on OS X 10.10 Yosemite as users are still having issues with the new OS X.
Did you ever play these under OS X 10.9 Mavericks?.
I suspect issues with these games under Yosemite as Yosemite, itself, uses more hardware overhead. Based on numerous issues posted here about Yosemite, seems Yosemite is more taxing on both RAM and the GPU.

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