How to play Angel Beats! -1st beat- on Mac

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Game summary

Angel Beats! -1st beat- is an all ages Japanese visual novel developed by Key and the first in a series of six volumes. The game is based on the 2010 anime television series Angel Beats! and also adapts scenes featured in the anime. The gameplay in Angel Beats! follows an interactive branching plot line with multiple scenarios. The story takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront—an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.
First released: Jun 2015

Play Angel Beats! -1st beat- on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Angel Beats! -1st beat- on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Angel Beats! -1st beat- installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Angel Beats! -1st beat- like you would on any PC.
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