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CLUSTER CONTROLLER-UTILITY-XBOX · 33 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-23

Windows gaming on Apple Silicon

This cluster comprises macOS utilities and desktop apps that let Apple Silicon Mac users install and run Windows games (and in some cases Windows software or Android apps) through compatibility layers such as Wine and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, often with per-game presets, controller support, and simplified launch workflows. The dated history before the index is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, highball leads with 1004 stars, followed by stop-stutter (466 stars) and Decanter (2 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 16OCT 2026: 13
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 10 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21aion2-mac0★1 day—hand-codedhobbymacOS launcher that sets up and runs AION 2, a Windows-only MMO, on Apple Silicon Macs, keeping Steam and game settings in an isolated environment.
  2. 22mop-5.4.8-apple-silicon0★19 days—hobbyA compatibility tool that installs and configures World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria so it runs on Apple Silicon Macs.
  3. 23klyc-box0★3 dayslivehobbyFree macOS app that runs Windows games from Steam and Epic libraries on Apple Silicon.
  4. 24cellar0★3 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS app that enables the Windows edition of Microsoft Excel to run on Apple Silicon Macs, providing a launcher and private Windows environment for Office files.
  5. 25uncork0★3 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that runs Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs through a compatibility layer and manages game launching.
  6. 26mac-game-porter0★13 dayslivehobbyMac app that converts Windows games and repacked game archives into playable Mac applications on Apple Silicon.
  7. 27Cider0★13 days—hand-codedindieMac app that lets Apple silicon users play Windows games and run Windows software, with Steam integration and one-click installs.
  8. 28macnative0★9 days—hobbymacOS game launcher that lets Apple Silicon users install and play Windows Steam and GOG games without manually configuring Wine.
  9. 29amphora0★5 days—A Mac app and CLI that run Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs from declarative recipes.
  10. 30EasyPlay0★16 days—hobbyMac launcher that runs Windows games on Apple silicon by wrapping Wine and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit with per-game presets and plain-English error diagnostics.
  11. 31flashback0★27 days—Native macOS app for playing classic Flash, Shockwave, Java, and offline HTML games with a curated game catalog.
  12. 32Game2Mac0★1 molivehobbyTool that packages legally owned Windows games into double-clickable macOS applications so Mac users can run them.
  13. 33Hearthline1★2 mo—hobbymacOS app that streams games from Sunshine and GameStream-compatible hosts to the Mac.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.