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Ask HN: What's the state of the art of playing Windows games on macOS with Wine?
Around 2015, if you wanted to play your vintage Windows games on your Mac, you could launch Wineskin Winery[0], pass the game installer to it and get the game as a Mac app.
Today, the wrapped games from back then don't work any more due to Apple's 64-bit transition. Wineskin Winery is defunct. There is a fork[1] that claims to work but it beachballed my Mac the last time I tried and the project is somewhat shady anyways. (Claims to be LGPL but binaries are provided without source code).
I tried CrossOver[2] several times but the UI is so confusing that I never get anything to run. I am aware of virtualization but I would like not to buy Windows licenses or boot entire operating systems to play my games. I miss being able to just stuff a game into a wrapper and be done. What are the options today?
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131201065712/http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php
[1]: https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer
[2]: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover