There's a site Apple Gaming Wiki which covers this very topic. To my surprise I found I can play Windows x86 games on my Apple M1 Macbook using Parallels and Windows 11. For the record here's games I've played this way and how I got on.
| Game | Year | Comments |
| The 13th Doll - A Fan Game of The 7th Guest | 2019 | Ran best in a window slow between scenes |
| Armikrog | 2015 | Runs well |
| Black Book | 2021 | Runs but sometimes hover over fails |
| The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales | 2023 | Runs well |
| Breakout 13 | 2023 | Runs well |
| The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story | 2022 | Runs though some minor scenes don't play properly |
| Circus Electrique | 2022 | Runs well |
| Dark Nights with Poe and Munro | 2020 | Runs well |
| Druidstone | 2019 | Runs well |
| Encased | 2021 | Runs needs video.untrimmed_dynamic_cbuffers=1 as boot option for VM but cursor handling issues |
| Gamedec | 2022 | Runs but long pauses in places |
| Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective | 2010 | Requires DX12 |
| Haunted | 2011 | Runs okay |
| Internet Court | 2021 | Runs fine |
| Iron Curtain: From Matryoshka With Love | 2019 | Runs but can crash and can have visual artefacts |
| Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time | 1998 | Runs with compatibility set to Windows XP SP2 |
| Late Shift | 2016 | Runs |
| Miasma Chronicles | 2023 | Requires DX12 |
| Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy | 2007 | Runs but menus flicker badly |
| Operencia: The Stolen Sun | 2020 | Runs |
| Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | 2019 | Runs well |
| Return To Mysterious Island | 2005 | Runs well |
| Rose and Lotus: Petals of Memories | 2023 | Runs well |
| Showgunners | 2023 | Requires DX12 |
| Solasta: Crown of the Magister | 2020 | Runs |
| The Forgotten City | 2021 | Runs but ensure screen resolution not set to something stupid |
| The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker | 2017 | Runs well |
| The Next Big Thing | 2011 | Runs force screen resolution to something reasonable in GOG version there's a config program |
| The Silent Age | 2013 |