Bridgeplay: Windows Steam games on your Mac

Bridgeplay

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Apple M5 MaxD3DMetal

Direct3D 123024×1964

MetalFX upscale1512×982

Frame generation2x

Graphics presetMedium–High

90 FPS

What Bridgeplay does.

Plays inside Mac Steam.

Windows games sit in your Mac Steam library and start with Play. They run in Wine under Rosetta 2.

Illustration

Experimental frame generation.

Up to 3× displayed frames, with a little added latency. Off by default; turn it on per game.

DLSS, answered by MetalFX.

Games on D3DMetal see an NVIDIA card by default, so DLSS shows up. Apple’s toolkit runs it on MetalFX.

DirectX 12 on Metal.

Apple’s D3DMetal runs DirectX 11 and 12 on your Mac’s GPU.

Any controller.

DualSense, Xbox, GameSir and more, with no mapping screen.

3024×1964

Full Retina, one switch away.

Off by default because it’s slower. Turn on High Resolution to draw at your display’s real resolution.

Guided install.

A Setup Assistant walks you through Rosetta, Steam and permissions.

Mac Gaming, Unleashed.

It lives in Steam.

No bottles. No second launcher. Windows games sit in the Steam library you already use, and you start them with Play, like any Mac game.

DirectX 12, spoken in Metal.

Apple’s D3DMetal runs DirectX 11 and 12 on your Mac’s GPU.

Ask for DLSS. Get MetalFX.

Games on D3DMetal see an NVIDIA card by default, so DLSS shows up. Apple’s toolkit runs it on MetalFX.

Experimental frame generation.

Up to 3× displayed frames, with a little added latency. Off by default; turn it on per game.

Any controller. No mapping.

DualSense, Xbox, GameSir and more, with no mapping screen.

Already playing.

Developer’s tests on an M5 Max MacBook Pro with Game Porting Toolkit 4.0 beta 3: 90+ fps, with MetalFX upscaling and frame generation where listed. Settings come from each game’s launch log.

Resident Evil Requiem

  • 90+ fps
  • D3DMetal
  • DLSS → MetalFX
  • DLSS Frame Gen (experimental)
  • Retina
  • V-Sync forced

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

  • 90+ fps
  • D3DMetal
  • Retina
  • MSync

007 First Light

  • 90+ fps
  • D3DMetal
  • DLSS → MetalFX
  • DLSS Frame Gen (experimental)
  • Retina

Also running with Bridgeplay

  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • The Witcher 3
  • Phasmophobia
  • Among Us
  • PAYDAY 2
  • The Forest
  • Monster Hunter: World
  • Lethal Company
  • Dying Light
  • Portal 2
  • Geometry Dash
  • Dark Souls III
  • Brawlhalla

Most games with kernel-level anti-cheat won’t run. Game names are trademarks of their owners.

Guided install.
One step at a time.

  1. Download Bridgeplay.A disk image, notarized by Apple.

  2. Drag it into Applications.Open it and click Open when macOS asks.

  3. Follow the Setup Assistant.It fetches Apple's graphics, the engine and Steam. Then pick a Windows game in Steam and press Play.

Download for Mac

Bridgeplay Setup

Setup AssistantSetting up Bridgeplay0%

  • Your MacApple Silicon, macOS 26
  • RosettaInstalled
  • GraphicsGame Porting Toolkit 4.0 beta 3
  • SteamWaiting for you to sign inSigned in
  • Set UpSetting up SteamReady to play
The real steps, in order. You sign in to Steam and confirm a couple of standard macOS prompts. The assistant tells you what each one is.

Will it run on your Mac?

Bridgeplay needs an Apple Silicon Mac and macOS 26 or later.

Check your Mac
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  • MacApple SiliconM1 or later, every Pro, Max and Ultra. Intel Macs are not supported.
  • SteamAccountWindows games install from Steam as usual
  • macOS26+macOS Tahoe or later
  • Download550 MBEngine and graphics included
  • GraphicsDX 11·12On Metal through D3DMetal

Inside Steam, not beside it.

Other good tools run Windows games on a Mac. Here’s how they differ for Steam games, as of 7 November 2026.

Your MacMetalApple Silicon GPUmacOS

How a Windows game reaches your Mac’s GPU, left to right. Each piece links to its source. Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Apple software under Apple’s own license; everything else is open source except Steam and macOS themselves.

Your Steam library.
On your Mac.

Download for Mac

Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.