Play Epic and GOG games on a Mac

Irori runs natively on macOS, on Apple silicon and Intel. Mac versions of games install and start as Mac apps; Windows versions run through Wine, CrossOver or Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit.

1. Install Irori

brew install --cask irori-app/tap/irori

Or download the .dmg for Apple silicon or Intel from the latest release and drag Irori to Applications. The app is signed with Irori’s Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS asks once for Keychain access to the key that protects your logins.

2. Sign in

Open Accounts and sign in to Epic Games and GOG. Irori shows the sign-in window itself, using macOS’s own WebKit, and it closes by itself when you’re done.

3. Choose how Windows games run

The Wine manager has a tab for each family Irori downloads, and one for what is already on your Mac:

Tab	What it is
Game-Porting-Toolkit	Apple’s translation layer, built for Wine. Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later only
Wine-Crossover	A downloadable Wine with CrossOver’s changes; not the CrossOver app
Wine-Staging-macOS	Wine Staging builds for macOS
On this system	Wine app bundles, Homebrew Wine, CrossOver and CrossOver Preview, and Whisky’s Wine

Intel Wine builds on Apple silicon need Rosetta 2; Irori checks for it before it sets up a prefix and tells you if it’s missing.

4. Using the CrossOver app

To run a game in a CrossOver bottle, create the bottle in CrossOver first, then name it in the game’s Wine settings (“CrossOver bottle”). Bottles moved to another drive work too: point Settings › General › Folders › “CrossOver bottles folder” at them. Irori never initializes or deletes a shared bottle; manage it in CrossOver.

5. Play

Install a game and press Play. Turn on Retina mode in a game’s settings to render at your display’s full resolution, and try Msync and the Metal HUD when tuning. Cloud saves for Epic Games and GOG sync before and after you play, as on every system.

A runtime being available doesn’t mean every game works: DRM, anticheat and the graphics API a game uses still matter. Try another Wine family when one doesn’t work.

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