How to play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 7 on Mac

Game summary

The Dark Between the Stars is the seventh chapter in the Half-Life: A Place in the West saga. When Rajani and Long refuse to surrender, Banks deactivates the city defences, unleashing antlions. As Long tries to repel them, Rajani seizes one last chance to take control of the city.

Play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 7 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Half-Life: A Place in the West - Chapter 7 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 7 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 7 like you would on any PC.
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