exe apps

[acoustic plume]

is there an app that runns exe files that you can download from the software manager

[umbral isle]

Wine https://www.winehq.org/. You can download from software manager.

[coarse sable]

wine is an option, however mint ships really old wine and you may want to use the external winehq repo.
do note it is very bare-bones and terminal utility, you may want to use some other like lutris, bottles or heroic launcher for epic, gog games. adding the program .exe as a non-steam game and enabling compatibility in steam can work sometimes too

do note some software just is not supported, e.g games like Fortnite, or Adobe or Microsoft office suites

[quick moat]

So you want to use .exe on Linux yes you can using wine a compatibility layer