Highball
Which renderer to use
Highball can run each game through three different Direct3D translation layers. This is what the database knows for this title — empty rows are open questions, not failures.
| Renderer | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| DXVKDirect3D 9-11 over Vulkan | Untested | no report yet — send one |
| DXMTDirect3D 11 over Metal | Reported | 1 report |
| D3DMetalApple's Game Porting Toolkit | Untested | no report yet — send one |
No dated Highball run yet. When one lands it records the renderer, the engine build and the macOS version it was seen on — which is what stops a verdict quietly rotting. Send one.
Notes
Reported playable on the default engine with DXMT over a 78-minute session, with one annoyance: the mouse cursor shows up when the view is turned toward a corner of the screen. The reporter sees the same in other first-person games such as Poppy Playtime, and not in native Mac games. The bottle had been set up for Counter-Strike 2, whose dxvk.conf section covers csgo.exe alone, so none of it reaches this game. Nothing was measured here.
Known issues
The mouse cursor appears and moves around when the view is turned toward a corner of the screen (reported on an M4, macOS 27.2, DXMT, engine r28)
What helps none known yet
Why not investigated. The reporter sees it in other first-person games under Highball too, so it is likely Wine's mouse handling on macOS rather than this game
Provenance
Reported by kinging742 (highball-db#595, 2026-10-20), Apple M4, macOS 27.2, Highball 0.10.21, engine x64-sikarugir10.0_6-r28, DXMT environment, msync, AVX advertised, rated 4 of 5 after 78 minutes. Not verified by the maintainer.
Before installing anything, it is worth checking whether the game already ships a native Mac build.
Common questions
Does Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic work on Mac?
Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic has no native Mac build, but it is reported to run on Apple Silicon through Highball, a free open-source compatibility layer. This comes from community reports rather than a Highball test run, so treat it as a reasonable expectation rather than a guarantee.
Contribute a result
This page is generated from an open database. If you have run Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic on Apple Silicon, working or not, a report takes a minute and fills in the empty rows above. Send a report, or read how the data is put together.