How to play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 5 on Mac

Game summary

The Eyes of the People is the fifth chapter in the Half-Life: A Place in the West saga, and continues the story of New Franklin – an American enclave with a mysterious cosmic tower at its heart. At the city’s annual masquerade banquet, Governor Moore plots to assassinate Major General Long, whilst Long himself prepares to strike against...

Play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 5 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 5 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).

Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 5 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 Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 5 like you would on any PC.
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