Box64
Ranked 4 of 4 x86 emulators by recommenders
Lets people run x86 programs on ARM and RISC-V Linux, with reports of Steam and games working; critics note possible bugs.
Lets people run x86 programs on ARM and RISC-V Linux, with reports of Steam and games working; critics note possible bugs.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs Windows games on ARM
“manage to make it a solid and fast solution to running windows game on arm”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm” Runs Steam on RISC-V
“Box64 already runs Steam (and a good number of games) on RISC-V.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” Promising results on mobile hardware
“Results on existing mobile hardware seem promising already.”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Helping Valve to power up Steam devices” Faster than some alternatives
“much slower than Box64 or FEX”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Possible bugs right now
“there may be some bugs with both that and box64 right now, I was having trouble with both of them”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices” “there may be some bugs with both that and box64 right now”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices”
Other x86 emulators people recommend
The three most recommended other x86 emulators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 4 x86 emulators, rankedWhat people said
6 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“much slower than Box64 or FEX”
“Box64 already runs Steam (and a good number of games) on RISC-V.”
“manage to make it a solid and fast solution to running windows game on arm”
“Results on existing mobile hardware seem promising already.”
“there may be some bugs with both that and box64 right now”
“there may be some bugs with both that and box64 right now, I was having trouble with both of them”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.