diff --git a/osu.Game/IO/Archives/ZipArchiveReader.cs b/osu.Game/IO/Archives/ZipArchiveReader.cs
index d934ac54c4..2233520916 100644
--- a/osu.Game/IO/Archives/ZipArchiveReader.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/IO/Archives/ZipArchiveReader.cs
@@ -1,15 +1,30 @@
 // Copyright (c) ppy Pty Ltd <contact@ppy.sh>. Licensed under the MIT Licence.
 // See the LICENCE file in the repository root for full licence text.
 
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using SharpCompress.Archives.Zip;
+using SharpCompress.Common;
 
 namespace osu.Game.IO.Archives
 {
     public sealed class ZipArchiveReader : ArchiveReader
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// List of substrings that indicate a file should be ignored during the import process
+        /// (usually due to representing no useful data and being autogenerated by the OS).
+        /// </summary>
+        private static readonly string[] filename_ignore_list =
+        {
+            // Mac-specific
+            "__MACOSX",
+            ".DS_Store",
+            // Windows-specific
+            "Thumbs.db"
+        };
+
         private readonly Stream archiveStream;
         private readonly ZipArchive archive;
 
@@ -43,7 +58,9 @@ namespace osu.Game.IO.Archives
             archiveStream.Dispose();
         }
 
-        public override IEnumerable<string> Filenames => archive.Entries.Select(e => e.Key).ToArray();
+        private static bool canBeIgnored(IEntry entry) => filename_ignore_list.Any(ignoredName => entry.Key.IndexOf(ignoredName, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) >= 0);
+
+        public override IEnumerable<string> Filenames => archive.Entries.Where(e => !canBeIgnored(e)).Select(e => e.Key).ToArray();
 
         public override Stream GetUnderlyingStream() => archiveStream;
     }