This (Free) App Lets You Play Windows Steam Games on MacOS

This tutorial showcases how to play Windows games on Mac for free using the Whisky app. With the latest MacOS update and the power of Apple's gamer porting toolkit, It takes just a few steps to install Windows Steam games on MacBook and start gaming on Mac. Unfortunately, not all Windows games that are on Steam are available to play on Mac so you can play Windows games that are not available on MacOS through an app called Whisky. This method of playing Windows games on Mac will work with any kind of device with MacOS that has an M series chip, whether it's the MacBook Pro M2, MacBook Air M3, or Mac Mini.

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Not playing Windows games on Mac, but Steam play unsupported games like Minecraft on Mac, But Paralells and Crossover, or any other windows game playing on Mac fast like that. This is a tutorial / Windows on Mac with Whiskey of run on Mac and FPS to launch games on Mac in 2024.

[bogxd]

I also just found out that you can get a +50 FPS boost to almost all Mac games by scrolling back up to SMASH the like button

[ralphiedawg]

It’s worth mentioning that this only works for apple silicon Macs. If you’re looking to do something similar on Intel Macs, I would recommend setting up boot camp.

[AstralNexus]

So for those who don't know, Whisky is a GUI version for apple's Game Porting Toolkit + Crossover's Wine flavour. More experienced mac users can use the terminal method (Apple's official solution), but it has no advantages and Whisky is better overall. Its basically Proton with DX12.

[psicologiajoseh]

This is how tutorials all around the Internet should be. Thank you very much for being succinct and going direct to the point.

[Cenacataya]

WARNING TO EVERYONE TRYING TO USE THIS: This option is solid for playing some games and even profesional software that is not on mac although if trying to play a game that contains anticheat it will not run it. Reason being is the anti cheat checks the processes being run on the computer. Whiskey only uses wine which does not spoof processes it only spoofs the file location. I have struggled with things like this on linux and my sisters mac before so i just thought everyone should get a fair chance to know.

[AstralNexus]

Hey Bog, just wanted to correct you here: Whisky and Apple's GPTK are just flavours of Crossover's Wine with extra DX12 support, so they run identically to Crossover except in DX12 games, where they run even faster. As for Parralels, it doesn't run windows GAMES, it runs windows itself, so it is MUCH slower.

[schopra]

One of the best guides I've ever watched - straight to the point and I was pretty much able to follow in real time!

[marboro-lsrf]

It really works on my m2 MacBook Air. I can't believe it. Thank you so much for showing this app.

[SpellStryker]

Nice addition to my collection of free mac apps.

[MariaZampino]

Legitimately the best tutorial video I have watched in a long time. Clear, to the point, and gives alternative solutions. I had been googling for hours, going through so many reddit posts, and IT bloggers. Thank you.

[andreeac]

BEST TUTORIAL FOR A BEGINNER, I REALLY DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME OR PATIENCE TO WATCH ANY OTHER TUTORIALS. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Henyckma]

Thank you so much! Can you do a video comparison of other software running Windows games on MacOS? Does it improve FPS's? I would love to watch it, thank you so much for your time, I hope your channel keeps growing.

[CapnSlipp]

The best part about Whiskey is that it's a community-driven active open source project, not a potentially for-profit or for-spyware venture. As is Wine, on all platforms. The not-open-source parts are Apple's Rosetta emulation which runs x86 assembly on Apple Silicon, and D3DMetal, Apple's DirectX to Metal adaptor library.

[Beryesa.]

Real shout-out to Wine and other open source projects behind this and GPTK, which descends from Valve's community investment for Linux gaming :)

[gonerator]

Duuude this is awesome, I knew about Wine and all, also using UTM on my M1, but this should finally let me play some of those games I wasn't able to, as well as run some software! Whisky even has built in recipe for installing classic Winamp :D

[kaitlindawn]

omg I have been looking at videos about this but all of them was really complicated, yours is one of the easiest explanations ever thank you 👍

[BomberCrab]

what mac model are you using and how much RAM do you have?

[juliocesarbrito]

One of the best guides I've ever watched. GREAT!!!!

[someotherpersonontheinternet]

Whiskey…
Not inspired from Wine at all…
Not a mac user, but this is the most straightforward video I have ever seen

[UshankaMaster]

Just in case, Parallels usually works much better with older games that use directx 9 and/or were released before like 2013, that's because they use x87 (not x86, x87) instructions which are very slow to emulate under Rosetta 2 (it's a translation layer that allows x86 Crossover/Whisky bottles to run). As a free alternative, you might want to try vmware virtual machine, it's free and might perform adequately in older games.