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

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