the best way to play pc/ steam games on Mac system?

By ming, 1 November, 2025

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any good idea to play the mojority pc/ steam gameson Mac system?
especially on M4 , M5 Mac book, Mac Mini and I mac

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By Oliver on Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 13:47

Regarding steam, steam is merely a store front. It doesn't change compatibility. The game itself has to be mac compatible of which there are very few on the steam store. If you want to play PC games you either need to install with wine/cross over or run a VM such as parallels and play it in there. There are limitations on gaming in a VM though so watch out for those.

TLDR: If it's a steam game for PC, you need to run it on a PC or a PC VM.

By Khomus on Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 15:59

Some games work, Blind Drive for example. That's if you install Steam on the Mac. But Slay the Spire doesn't work, or at least, I haven't found a mod that works. I forget what games I have, not a ton, but most of them just show up as for Windows.

By Tayo on Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 17:49

There aren't a lot of accessible ones. Hellhunter, if you have it, is on Steam. So is Stardew Valley, although getting the mods set up for Mac can become a bit tedious. THe mod that theoreticaly should make Slay the Spire work on Mac doesn't work, and the Say the Spire mod is Windows only, as far as I can tell. there was a post on the audiogames forum about accessing the accessible chromium layer of steam, which works though it's not the best experience.