Apple Game Porting Toolkit compatibility list

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Apple’s proprietary Game Porting Toolkit is a powerful translation layer tool with the potential to bring a huge number of DirectX 11 and 12 games to Mac systems. On top of that, the fact that the tool is freely available to the public means anyone can give it a try and see for themselves if their favourite gaming titles can run on a Mac. However, working with the Game Porting Toolkit isn’t an easy task, since the program is primarily meant to be used by game developers. Still, many regular Mac enthusiasts have already given it a go and have reported their findings about which games would actually run. We searched the Internet and collected data from various sources like r/macgaming and AppleGamingWiki to bring you a list of all the games that are currently confirmed to run through the Game Porting Toolkit, and we’ll make sure to regularly update the list with any new titles that get confirmed.

What games can you play with the Game Porting Toolkit?

Here’s our list of the games that are currently known to run through Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit and have a confirmed playability rating (e.g. the game runs perfectly, is playable with some minor issues, or runs, but is barely playable) :

Game Name Playability Rating Notes and Fixes
7 Days to Die Perfect
Age of Empires 4 Perfect
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Playable
Assetto Corsa Competizione Perfect
Astroneer Perfect
Batman Arkham Knight Perfect
BioShock Infinite Runs
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Perfect
Chasm: The Rift Playable It works, but you can’t change any video options as it will crash. You have to manually edit the config file.
Codename: Loop Perfect
Cogmind Perfect
Control Perfect
Counter Strike 2 Perfect
Crysis Remastered Perfect
Cyberpunk 2077 Playable
Days Gone Perfect
Deceive Inc. Perfect Works well if launched without EAC
Deep Rock Galactic Perfect
Derail Valley Perfect
Diablo 2: Resurrected Perfect
Diablo 4 Perfect
Disco Elysium Perfect
Elden Ring Playable Requires a very powerful M1 or M2 Mac; Works only in offline mode due to EAC
EVE Online Perfect
F1 2020 Playable
Fallout: New Vegas Playable
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Perfect
Final Fantasy XIV Perfect
Final Fantasy XV Perfect
Firewatch Perfect
Freeways Perfect
Genshin Impact Perfect
God of War Playable Okay performance on M1 Pro (16gb); not recommended playing it on weaker hardware.
Grand Theft Auto V Perfect
Guild Wars 2 Perfect
Hogwarts Legacy Playable
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Perfect
L.A. Noire Runs
Magicite Perfect
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Playable
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Perfect
One piece odessey Perfect
Osu! Perfect
Outer Wilds Playable
Overwatch 2 Perfect
Portal Playable
Portal 2 Playable
Remnant from the Ashes Perfect
Resident Evil 3 (2020) Perfect
Risk of Rain 2 Perfect
Rocket League Playable
Satisfactory Playable
Spore Perfect
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Perfect
StarCraft: Remastered Perfect Opening the option menu a second time causes a bug that prevents the game from recognizing any inputs.
Stray Perfect
System Shock Perfect
Tell Me Why Perfect
Tetris Effect: Connected Playable Doesn’t run well with Retina Mode On
The Sims 4 Perfect
The Witcher 3 Playable
V Rising Perfect
Valheim Playable
Vampyr Playable
Warframe Perfect In order to get the game’s installer/launcher to work, you must add “dwrite (disabled)” to library overrides in winecfg
XIII Perfect

Other games that can be played with the Game Porting Toolkit

Next, we have a list of games that were tested and have been confirmed to run through the Game Porting Toolkit, but there isn’t a specified playability rating for them, and it’s unknown how good their gameplay experience and performance is.

Game Name Notes and Fixes
AnimA: Reign of Darkness
ARK: Survival Evolved
Assassins Creed 3 Remastered
Atomic Heart
Blood: Fresh Supply
Borderlands 3
Brick Rigs
Cultic
Cuphead
Dead Space Remake
Dread Templar
Duke Nukem 3D HRP (eduke32)
Dying Light 2 Needs AVX fix.
Five Nights At Freddy’s Security Breach
Friends vs. Friends
Gloomwood
Going Medieval
Green Hell
Guilty Gear Strive
Halo 3 (MCC) Master Chief Collection – no multiplayer due to EAC.
Halo Reach (MCC)
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ • Works with Retina mode;
• DivaModLoader and DivaNoSpy recommended
• run Steam with WINEDEBUG=-all WINEESYNC=0 • WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”dinput8.dll=n,b”
• may randomly crash at the title screen: use IntroPatch as a workaround
Infinity Racer XD
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Only Up!
People Playground
PowerSlave Exhumed
Prodeus
Project Warlock
QUBE 2
Ready or Not
Scarlet Nexus
Sonic GT
Sonic illusions
Sonic Omens
Sonic Project ’06
Spider-Man Miles Morales Requires Windows version fix.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake
Tiny Tina Wonderlands
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

Games that don’t run through the Game Porting Toolkit

Finally, we also have a list of games that have been tested with the Game Porting Toolkit, but didn’t run through the compatibility layer and there’s currently no known way of getting them to work:

  • Age of Empires IV
  • Among Us
  • Battle Brothers
  • Company of Heroes 3
  • Death Stranding
  • Doom Eternal
  • Dying Light
  • F1 22
  • FIFA 22
  • Fortnite
  • Goose Goose Duck
  • Halo Infinite
  • Hitman 3
  • Mafia III
  • Mafia: Definitive Edition
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator
  • Monster Hunter Rise
  • Monster Hunter World
  • New World
  • Polygon
  • Railway Empire
  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Resident Evil Village
  • SCP Secret Laboratory
  • Sea of Thieves
  • Shadowrun Returns
  • Space Engineers
  • Terraria

Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit – how does it work?

If you are interested in getting Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit and using it to run any of the games from the lists shown here or testing it with other games, then you can do that for free, by getting the tool from Apple’s developer downloads site. However, you need to remember that the Game Porting Toolkit isn’t a user-friendly program and working with it will likely prove challenging to a regular user. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you check out our tutorial on how to use the Game Porting Toolkit for playing Windows games on your Mac, before actually downloading the tool and giving it a try.

There, you can also find a number of useful tips, troubleshooting techniques, and fixes that will allow you to play certain games that won’t run straight out the box and require some tinkering to get them to work.


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