gauthierpiarrette/highball

Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.

Games & graphicsSwift#apple-silicon#gaming#macos#swiftui#wine

2.5 Peaking Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

A native macOS app and CLI that sets up Wine, DXMT, D3DMetal and DXVK to run Windows games on Apple Silicon, using an open compatibility database to show what actually works.

Useful for

Check the compatibility database to see if a specific game runs before downloading tens of gigabytes
Install Steam or connect an Epic library via Legendary inside a prepared Wine environment
Build the engine and environment from the terminal with CLI commands and file a game run report to the database

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

21 stars so far today, about 26 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 9 per day, so that's 2.7× as much.
The repository is 26 days old and already has 971 stars.
Top new repositories this month: #87.
Recent forks include notable developers: @itsOwen (210 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 971
Stars in a day: 26
Forks: 37
Issues and pull requests: 150
Watchers: 5
Language: Swift
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: v0.9.30 · September 18, 2026
Created: August 23, 2026
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Top new repositories this month: #84
September 17, 2026Top new repositories this month: #88

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