In most cases, in order to be able to play a certain game while in the Parallels VM, your Mac would need to meet it’s recommended and not only its minimum requirements. This is particularly important if you want to play games through Parallels. This is because your Mac would still be running on macOS while you are using Windows through the Parallels VM, so some hardware power needs to be left for macOS.
This means that you can do almost anything within the VM that you could do on a Windows PC, including downloading, installing, and playing Windows games. In other words, the VM is like just another app on your Mac – one that looks, behaves, and functions as the Windows OS. The Parallels virtual machine (VM) emulates the Windows OS while the Mac is still running on macOS. Parallels is a program that allows Mac users to run Windows on their Macs by creating a virtual Windows machine on the computer. Step 2: Downloading a Windows installation file.