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Highball vs Porting Kit: catalog facts
Highball	Porting Kit
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free to download; some games in its catalog must be bought separately.
macOS, Command line	macOS
Native macOS app plus a CLI Not tied to one Wine build	Prepared installers for Windows games on macOS Catalog of games that can be filtered by genre, source and price
Apple Silicon Macs only Not every Windows game will run	Compatibility depends on Wine, so not every game works Mac only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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