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Will your Windows game run on a Mac?

Straight answers for Apple Silicon Macs. Every claim on these pages links to its source, and a game is marked as working once players report that it works with Grapple.

Works
Players ran it on a Mac with Grapple and report that it works.
Runs with issues
Tested and playable, but something doesn't work — the test record says exactly what.
Likely to work — not tested yet
DirectX 9 to 12 and no kernel-level anti-cheat: the case Grapple is built for. DirectX 12 runs through D3DMetal, which ships with Grapple. An expectation, not a result — try it yourself and tell us.
Unknown — not tested yet
The publisher doesn't list a DirectX version, so we won't guess. Running it once tells us more than any spec sheet.
Won't run
Kernel-level anti-cheat. No Wine-based tool can load a Windows kernel driver, and no Grapple setting changes that.

The first two labels come from a test run. The rest are expectations we derive from published facts — useful for deciding what to try, never a promise.

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Played a game that isn't listed?

Tell us whether it works on Grapple. Reports decide which games we add and test next.

How a game gets its status

Players play

When someone plays a game twice, for more than 10 minutes each time, Grapple counts it, anonymously: nobody starts a broken game a second time. You can also say whether it works with one tap on the game's page.

The majority decides

One player who played it twice, or one player saying it works, marks a game as working. If players say it doesn't, it stays Works as long as more players played it or said it works.

A no gets looked at

When a player says a game doesn't work, we hear about it, along with the Mac it ran on, and look into it.

Blocked games, with sources

Games with kernel-level anti-cheat can't run under Wine. We only list them as “won't run” when the publisher or anti-cheat maker documents the block.

Grapple translates DirectX 9 to 12 to Metal: DXMT for DirectX 10 and 11, and Apple's D3DMetal — from the Game Porting Toolkit, included with Grapple — for DirectX 12. Games with kernel-level anti-cheat don't run in any Wine-based tool — read why anti-cheat blocks Mac players.

Tried a game? Tell us what happened

Grapple's Free plan runs one game, forever — exactly enough to settle the game you came here for. It's claimed the first time you play it, launchers and Windows tools don't count towards it, and you can swap it for another game once every 30 days. Install it, play for a bit, and send us what you saw. Every result — working or broken — shows up on the game's page for the next player.

What to send

  • The game and where you bought it (Steam, GOG, Epic…)
  • Your Mac model, chip and macOS version
  • The engine and graphics layer the game ran on — grapple info Steam
  • The resolution and graphics preset you played at
  • Frame rate from the Metal HUD, and the scene you measured it in — grapple set Steam hud on
  • Screenshots of any error, plus a diagnostics report — grapple report Steam

Those commands assume the game came from Steam; use Epic, GOG or Games instead if that's where it runs in Grapple. How to create a diagnostics report — it collects the game's settings, versions and logs into one zip, with your username removed.

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