Since the new update with v81, I wanted to play Lethal Company with a few of my friends who only have MacBooks / macOS and a lot has changed in terms of support. So I spent some time figuring out how to play on MacBook in 2026 without having to pay for any subscriptions. It works very well and mod manager (r2modman) is also supported. This is targeted towards ARM MacBooks (M1, 2020 and later)

I wrote this in Google Docs so if the formatting is bad I apologize. If this gets enough interest I can share the Google Docs directly which has pictures included to make it easier to follow along

Let me know if you run into any issues and I can try my best to help. I'm using a combination of Sikarugir and r2modmac to get this to work, so if any of those get deprecated then ripperoni

Uninstalling Whisky and Bottles

1. Since Whisky is no longer maintained, we will delete all instances of Whisky as well as Bottles allocated to past installed games. This saves space on the MacBook and reduces redundant storage usage
2. Open the Whisky application
3. In the left sidebar, right click a bottle and select the “Remove…” option
4. When prompted with “Are you sure you want to remove this bottle? This action is permanent.”, click the checkbox next to “Delete files from disk” and then click the “Remove” button
5. Repeat this for every bottle in the sidebar (if any are remaining).
6. Once the bottles are gone, delete the Whisky app itself
7. Open Finder and then go to the Applications folder. Right-click the Whisky app and then click “Move to Trash”. You can then go to the Trash, right-click the Whisky app, and then select “Delete Immediately”
8. To delete any residual files: In Finder, click Go in the top menu bar and select Library.
9. Remove the following folders
   1. ~/Library/Application Support/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky
   2. ~/Library/Containers/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky
   3. ~/Library/Logs/com.isaacmarovitz.Whisky
10. Go into the Trash app, right-click each folder, and then select “Delete Immediately”

Installing Sikarugir

1. Navigate to the Homebrew GitHub Releases page
   1. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases
2. Look at the latest Homebrew release and download the Homebrew.pkg file under the Assets header
3. Double-click the downloaded .pkg file to open the macOS installer.
4. Click through the standard installation steps. You will need to enter your Mac's password to authorize the installation.
5. After the installation finishes, open the “Terminal” application and run the following command to ensure Homebrew is added to your shell's path
   1. brew --version
   2. If you see the version number, the installation was successful
6. Navigate to the Sikarugir GitHub page
   1. https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir
7. Run the below command within the “Terminal” application to install Sikarugir using Homebrew
8. brew upgrade
9. brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/sikarugir/sikarugir
   1. You should see the following message:
   2. 🍺 sikarugir was successfully installed!
10. /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
11. You should see the following message:
12. Install of Rosetta 2 finished successfully

Setting up Sikarugir

1. Open the “Sikarugir Creator” application
2. Create a new Sikarugir Wrapper instance with Sikarugir engine
   1. Download the latest Template by double-clicking the Download Template x.x.x button
   2. Click the “Change” button underneath the “No engine selected” text and download the latest version of “WS12WineSikarugirx.x_x. Then select that option
   3. Click the “Create” button and then name the file “SteamSikarugir.app”
   4. It will take a few minutes to load. Afterwards you will get an “Empty app created successfully…” message
3. At the popup, select the “Launch It” button. You can then close the “Sikarugir Creator” window
4. With the Configure window open, select “Winetricks” at the bottom of the window
5. In the top search bar, type “steam” and then expand the “apps” header to expose the “steam” option. Click the checkbox next to “steam” and then hit Run. Select “Yes” when prompted to run the winetricks command. This will take a few minutes to run
6. Once completed, the description box will display: “Successfully installed steam” and “Winetricks Commands Finished!!”. Click “Close” to return to the Configure window
7. Next to the “Windows app:” text box, select “Browse”. Navigate to “Program Files (x86) > Steam > steam.exe” and double-click. The text box should now read “"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" “
8. Enable the D3DMetal checkbox to ensure Lethal Company runs most optimally
9. Click the “Test Run” button and it should open up Steam. Steam may take a few minutes to update. If prompted with “Allow “Configure” to find devices on local networks?”, click “Allow”
10. Sign in with Steam. Now that you have verified the application opening, click the Steam logo in the top menu bar and select “Exit Steam”
11. Click “No” when it says “Do you want to view the Test Run Log and close the “Configure” window

Accessing the SteamSikarugir App

1. The SteamSikarugir application should now be available in the Apps folder. Clicking this application will immediately launch the Steam application. Click “Allow” for any prompts which pop up
2. You can drag the SteamSikarugir app to the Dock to get quick access to the steam application.

Reconfiguring the SteamSikarugir App {#reconfiguring-the-steamsikarugir-app}

1. If you need to edit any settings or misconfigured something, you can go back to the Configure window by navigating to the “Configure” app within the Sikarugir folder
2. Find the “Configure” app here
   1. Open Finder and go to your Home folder. If you don’t have Home folder bookmarked, in the top menu bar, select Go > Home
   2. Go to Applications folder
   3. Go to Sikarugir folder
   4. Right-click the SikarugirSteam app and then click the “Show Package Contents” option
   5. Go into the Contents folder
   6. Double-click the “Configure” application

Changing the SteamSikarugir App icon

1. Download any Steam icon you want with either .icns or .ico format
2. Follow the instructions in Reconfiguring the SteamSikarugir App and open the “Configure” application. Note the icon at the bottom right of the Configure window next to the words Icon and Browse
3. Select Browse and look for the new steam icon you downloaded. Then close the Configure application
4. To apply the wrapper go back to the Finder application which you used to open up the “Configure” application. Go back twice until you are in the Sikarugir folder and see the SteamSikarugir application. Right-click the SteamSikarugir application and press Get Info.
5. It may take a few minutes to update, so try going back into the Configure app and redoing the Icon change and then going back to the SteamSikarugir app and pressing Get Info

Playing Lethal Company (no mods) {#playing-lethal-company-(no-mods)}

1. Open the SteamSikarugir app within your Apps folder or from the Dock
2. In the opened Steam app, navigate to the Library tab and look for Lethal Company in the “Games and Software” list.
3. Click Install and install into the Local Drive
4. Click Play once Lethal Company is downloaded and installed
5. Follow instructions in I Can’t Move In-Game

Playing modded Lethal Company with manual mod updates (untested and not preferred)

1. Make sure you have properly downloaded Lethal Company using Playing Lethal Company (no mods)
2. Follow instructions in Guide To Manually Install Mods For Lethal Company For Mac Users (Whiskey)

Playing modded Lethal Company with r2modmac

1. Instructions based loosely on How to Use r2modman On Mac (Whisky) — Lethal Company
2. Make sure you have properly downloaded Lethal Company using Playing Lethal Company (no mods)
3. To start off, we must locate the drive_c folder. You want to have recently opened up this folder so that it appears in your recent folder history
4. Similar to the instructions in Reconfiguring the SteamSikarugir App, we will navigate to the SteamSikarugir folder
   1. Go to Sikarugir folder
   2. Right-click the SikarugirSteam app and then click the “Show Package Contents” option
   3. Go into the Contents folder
   4. Go into the drive_c folder. Make note of this drive location as this is where we will point the mod manager to store all relevant mod files.
5. Download the r2modmac mod manager by navigating to the r2modmac GitHub releases page: https://github.com/Zard-Studios/r2modmac/releases
6. Download the r2modmac_aarch64.dmg file and run the dmg file. Drag and drop the r2modmac app into the Applications folder
   1. Follow the instructions in the accompanying .txt file
7. Launch the r2modmac application and select Lethal Company from the list of games (add as a Favorite for easy access)
8. Create a new profile.
   1. Note that you cannot import a profile using a code as your first mod profile because it will throw an error
   2. If you want to use an import code, create a blank profile then go back to the profile selection screen. Select Import Profile and import from the provided code. It will setup the profile with mods and automatically launch into the import profile
9. In the mod profile, go to Settings in the bottom-left
10. Select “Manually Locate Game Folder” and look for the folder containing the LethalCompany.exe file. It is probably located at the following
11. drive_c > Program Files (x86) > Steam > steamapps > common > Lethal Company
12. Note that you can’t go into the Sikarugir app contents in this file selection view. So you should look for drive_c in the folder dropdown at the top. Then navigate to the Lethal Company folder
13. Once selected, you should see a green checkmark under the Game Directory header. Once you do this, you will not have to re-locate the Game Directory for any future instances of playing with mods unless you change file locations or update the application. Click Save
14. Select the “Apply to Game” button in the bottom-left and it should successfully install the mods. Do not click the Play button as this will not do anything. Close r2modmac now
15. Now go to the “Configure” application as in Reconfiguring the SteamSikarugir App, go to the Tools tab. Select “Config Utility (winecfg)” from the Wine Tools panel.
16. This will open up a Windows window. In the window, navigate to Libraries and click the dropdown in the “New override for library:” textbox. Type in “winhttp” and select the winhttp text from the dropdown. Then click the Add button. It will show up in the “Existing overrides:” list
17. Click Apply then OK and the Windows menu will close.
18. Now you can close the Configure window
19. Launch the SteamSikarugir application to open Steam. Then select the Lethal Company game and launch it as usual. This will launch Lethal Company with the configured mods from r2modmac
20. Note that each time you launch modded Lethal Company, you should be sure to update the mods through r2modmac first before launching the game.

Modded Lethal Company Quick Start Guide

1. Follow all of the previous instructions in order to set up Sikarugir and get r2modmac connected to Lethal Company.
2. Launch the r2modmac application and select Lethal Company
3. If a new modpack is used, import profile from the provided code. Otherwise, log into a pre-existing profile.
4. If any mod updates are available, click Update.
5. Click the Apply to Game button in the bottom left and then wait for the application to sync up the mods folder. Close r2modmac
6. Launch the SteamSikarugir application to access Steam, then launch Lethal Company

Troubleshooting Guide

Launching SteamSikarugir Doesn’t Open the Steam App

1. Launch the Configure window from Reconfiguring the SteamSikarugir App and select the Tool tab. Click the “Kill Wine Processes” button
2. Open the Activity Monitor app on your Mac (press Cmd + Space and type "Activity Monitor").
3. In the top-right search bar, type Wine.
4. Select any processes named wine, wine64, or wineserver, click the “...” button at the top, and choose Force Quit.
5. Search for Steam in Activity Monitor and force quit any remaining Steam processes.

Steam Keeps Opening Back Up After I Close It

1. You need to close Steam by going to the top menu bar, clicking the Steam icon, and then clicking the Exit Steam option

I Can’t Move In-Game {#i-can’t-move-in-game}

1. When in the game, if you cannot seem to move around or move the cursor, navigate back to the Steam application and click on it. Then go back to the Lethal Company program and you should be able to move around
2. If you move out of the Lethal Company window, it will break your controls. To get access to controls again:
   1. Navigate to any other window that’s not Lethal Company, like Finder or Preview, by pressing cmd+tab. Click into that window and then make sure you can also see some part of the Lethal Company window.
   2. Then hold the cmd button on your keyboard and click the Lethal Company window.
   3. This restores control and allows you to move and look around as normal

Some of My Mods Aren’t Working

1. r2modmac is still in development and probably works for a majority of mods and games. However, some mods may have issues installing into Lethal Company’s mod folder, or may have issues when you are adding or removing mods. If you are running into this issue, you should navigate to the plugins and clear the folder.
   1. Go into the SteamSikarugir package contents and navigate to the following folder
   2. drive_c > Program Files (x86) > Steam > steamapps > common > Lethal Company > BepInEx
   3. Move the plugins folder into the trash
2. Restart r2modmac and select Lethal Company, navigate to the mod profile you want to use, then select the “Apply to Game” button. This will do a fresh install of all the mods and may relieve some issues.