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I have included a image of my specs, im also using Linux sense thats what works on my laptop. Im looking for free to play games that will run smoothly on my system/laptop. I would like to try popular and maybe online titles.
I thought about trying old school RuneScape but idk.
Tumbleweed, there are dozens of us!! <3
The trusty twinkpad will play a lot of *‘good old game’*s, just to name a few: Doom(s), Quake(s), Unreal, Deus Ex, Elder Scrolls (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), Thief(s), Dungeon Keeper(s), Carmageddon, Fallout(s), Resident Evil(s), Vampire: The Masquerade, Hitman(s), Clive Barker’s Undying, Gothic(s), Half-Life, Tomb Raider(s), Myst(s), Monkey Island(s), Baldur’s Gate(s), Icewind Dale(s), Diablo(s), GTA(s), KotOR, Outcast, Serious Sam(s), Cave Story, Dark Souls (1 & 2, bcs 30fps, but only barely/unpleasanty?), …
Maybe some newer retro ones, like Dusk?
Or not that visually important games, like 2D platformers and management games, etx - like Stardew Valley, Terraria, Dead Cells, Disco Elysium, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Momodora(s?), Spelunky(s), …
All of the mentioned are excellent.
I would take a look at Warframe.
www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck
I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.
Any Gameboy game with an emulator.
Nintendo doesn’t care about making their old games, nay, works of art like Golden Sun still playable, so I consider them free to play at this point.
Bit of an odd example to cite since both Golden Sun games are officially available on NSO.
Seems like it’s a yearly subscription membership only thing. If I can’t buy it and own it I pirate it.
Notice how the the NSO platform is not available on the PC platform? No sale.
OP: Asks what will run well on a 2017 mid-range business laptop.
ITT: Idle games! Text adventures! Literal games from the 1990s that would run fine on a 486.
🤦♂️
The free part is actually the harder thing to deliver on here. Free to play games are more recent than this hardware can handle since it’s a newer trend.
I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, hopefully you find something interesting from it :)
Nethack
I’d be worried if it didn’t run nethack!
the game to rule them all
Open Transport Tycoon.
Many people look at the game graphics and think it’s a joke, but the gameplay is actually great, even by today standards. If you’re even a little into transportation games, just give it a go. It’ll also run on a toaster.
Hello fellow OpenTTD enjoyer.
Any game is free to play if you’re willing to sail the high seas :3
any games made before your laptop should work. any of the Myst games or Ultima games…
Those specs seems decent at first glance, but my bet is that the bottleneck will be the storage, if you are using a hard drive still. If you use an ssd, or change to one, then your performance may be greatly improved
I think you could run Steam on that build, I used to play Supertux cart, and have not played 0AD in ages
What? Intel HD is easily the weakest part. HDD will only cause longer loading times.
Highly recommend SSD for everyday use and HDDs for backup, an old laptop I had turned from a barely usable machine to a pretty decent one just by swapping out a HDD for an SSD.
I’m enjoying OpenTTD right now. Free and has native Linux support.
Emulate GBA and PS1.
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart - A super fun and challenging Mario Kart style game made in the original Doom engine.
CatsEyeXI - An unofficial, custom Final Fantasy XI MMO server with fast leveling, solo play and many quality of life features. (Following guides is still recommended, because it's a complicated and vague game at the best of times!)
ETLegacy - A free to play version of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a fun and fast team-based first person shooter.
Shattered pixel dungeon!
The original release of cave story is free.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, Space Station 13 (online), Simutrans, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth
All the cool kids play the Cataclysm: The Last Generation fork these days 😎
Maybe give www.luanti.org/en/ a shot.
SuperTuxCart
not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable
Battle for Wesnoth. Really fun turn based strategy game - www.wesnoth.org
Its free and open source. They have it on steam now as well.
Gog has a small list of free games. Some can even be modded further, like Daggerfall.
Xonotic
Cataclysm DDA
Luanti
Empires Mod
Mindustry
OpenHV
Transcendance
Zeus/Poseidon 3
OpenRA
Panzer Marshal/Open General
Mindustry is great and will keep you occupied for a long time
Truly a massive game that gets overshadowed by people talking about Factorio, which Factorio is of course a classic undoubtedly but Mindustry has been in pretty consistent development for years now and is a great game with a lot of good content, it deserves more attention!
I just wish the game was better set up for joysticks/gamepad control out of the box, last time I tried to set it up on my Steam Deck I got frustrated.
Also Mindustry is on Android too!
Unturned was where i spent so many of my hours growing up just because all the small maps ran okayish on my shitty laptop
Unturned is still in development too which is pretty cool, I think it occupies a unique niche!
do u fw old minecraft? i like the beta version, its free if you use betacraft launcher >:)
Ss14 and cdda
If you like, there’s a paid version with more enviroments Trackmania United Forever
Best suggestion in this thread! Trackmania Forever slapped when I had a low powered machine.
Saaaame. And the online lobbies were such a blast. Good music, people somehow with colorful names, encouraging chat, 0 toxicity and random but good tracks.
Could give Ultima Online Outlands a try? But careful, addicitive but fun!
Even Warframe will run on that puppy (with low settings and without all the particles, other than that they’ve got the whole efficiency thing down pat)
Do emulated games count? I bet you could run most consoles.
-Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well. -Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization. -Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I’ve played them since the 90s. -Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don’t remember much about it, except that it’s good. -To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things. -Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman. -Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.
Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Check !LowSpecGaming@lemmy.zip
Grumpy404@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m actually the creator of that community…
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Oh, nice :)