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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.
The original release of cave story is free.
I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, hopefully you find something interesting from it :)
Emulate GBA and PS1.
Check !LowSpecGaming@lemmy.zip
I’m actually the creator of that community…
Oh, nice :)
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.
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.
I would take a look at Warframe.
www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck
I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, Space Station 13 (online), Simutrans, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth
not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable
I think the free Ascii version of Dwarf Fortress should run fine.
I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft
Open Transport Tycoon.
Hello fellow OpenTTD enjoyer.
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.
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
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.
What? Intel HD is easily the weakest part. HDD will only cause longer loading times.
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.
Technically, every game is free as long as you know where to find it.
And any game made before 2010 is likely to run perfectly on these specs.
Nethack
I’d be worried if it didn’t run nethack!
do u fw old minecraft? i like the beta version, its free if you use betacraft launcher >:)
I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom
I love new Vegas, but none of the mods I found fix the 1gb memory leak error. Crashes so often, it’s unplayable for me.
Shattered pixel dungeon!
Maybe give www.luanti.org/en/ a shot.
Gog has a small list of free games. Some can even be modded further, like Daggerfall.
-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.
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.
Could give Ultima Online Outlands a try? But careful, addicitive but fun!
If you like FPS
XONOTIC will be great
If you like, there’s a paid version with more enviroments Trackmania United Forever
Super Tux Kart
apftwb@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
I’m enjoying OpenTTD right now. Free and has native Linux support.
store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/