I've had pretty good luck running most older games via Windows with Parallels on my M1 Macbook Pro. Microsoft now officially supports Windows via Parallels as

I've had pretty good luck running most older games via Windows with Parallels on my M1 Macbook Pro. Microsoft now officially supports Windows via Parallels as “an authorized solution” on M1 & M2 Macs. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-windows-11-apple-mac-m1-m2-support-parallels-virtual-machines https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-window... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...