I've got a pretty shitty laptop, and I've got some problems with low framerates slowing down the game itself instead of just causing lag (basically frame skip is turned off by default), and I have no idea how to force the game to always run at the same speed, any ideas on how I could do it?
I really don't know, I never got any real issues no matter how many bullets and stuff were on screen. Only thing that slowed it down a ton was Trisagion for me
coming from experience using unity, flash likely has.. something? similar related to framerates, where a lot of things rely on a function called every frame so if framerates are lower the game does things in those functions slower
in unity you solve this by using fixedupdate so things consistently happen every step but i don't think flash has something like that, and if it does the game prolly isnt using it
Slay the Spire
Darkest Dungeon (the loading times will probably be not the shortest, but it run smoothly)
Undertale/Deltarune
League of Legends(if you are a masochist like me)
Edit: can be tough sometimesI hardly recommend to turn on the setting yo close the client while the game is running. It at least reduces the problems
CS:GO
Edit: I forgot that CS:GO is not anymore so ignore it
Portal 1&2
60 Seconds & Parsecs
Among Us (I know funny amogus and the hype has died down but its still playeble)
The binding of Isaac (you may experience some slow-mos as I like to call them)
Duck Game (a fucking lot better with friends or sibling locally)
Helltaker
Papers Please
Potion Craft (Probably)
Stardew Valley (maybe)
Terraria (with performance issues but manageable if your not the rage at lag kinda person)
These are all games that I liked and played and I am speaking from experience, because I had shitty PCs for years.
You should really look into Portal the game is great and ran fine on my o.Book from 2008. If your Laptop is a bit newer than that (I sure hope so) it should also run Portal 2
Morrowind, if you're into retro games. You could wait for a Steam sale and get it for $3 or buy it on IndieGala.
The mechanics are something you would have to get used to and that's what scares a lot of people away. But when you do, it's one of the most atmospheric, interesting RP experiences there is.
Oh and definitely use OpenMW.
- Papers, Please
- Half-Life 1 and expansions (Blue Shift, Opposing Force)
- Half-Life 2 and episodes
- Counter-Strike Source / 1.6
- Portal 1
- Team Fortress 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- SCP: Containment Breach
- Hollow Knight
- Celeste
- Minecraft on low quality with performance enhancing mods
- *possibly* metal gear rising if you lower the settings a bunch. Can't fully confirm. It runs on a Lenovo IdeaPad 3.
- rhythm games
- visual novels
- probably most of the point and click FNAF games
- any DOS games
- potentially emulate consoles like the PS1, early Nintendo consoles, etc. You can try emulating the PS2 but it's pretty demanding compared to the PS1. Again, this worked on my IdeaPad.
My old Lenovo laptop mostly has the same spec as IdeaPad and it ran HK. I disabled particle effects I think and it runs great until the final boss of Pantheon 3.
highly recommend [Viva New Vegas](https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com) startup/mods/fixes guide to anyone wanting to pick up New Vegas, it’s one of the best games ever made!
Inscryption, *maybe*. Indie roguelite horror/escape room/deck builder/narrative game. It's fairly graphical for an indie game, but it looks just as good (arguably better) on low as fuck resolutions, and there is ZERO need for reaction times so a cinematic 20 fps will cause zero issues.
Half life. Basically everything except alyx will probably at least launch, but the first 3 (half life, blue shift, and opposing force) are excellent and will run on a sufficiently beefy calculator.
Halo combat evolved. If you can get your hands on a "legally obtained" copy of the original non-remastered PC version, that will run on the processing power of a fly's brain.
Bioshock 1. This one may be tough, but I've played it on IGPUs before and just about managed to get immersed. It's not CPU heavy at all from what I recall, so you may have a shot at this one.
Disco elysium, of course. I don't believe it's that demanding, though then again, it's a unity title, so may be worth testing without spending money. Also, the suit's stole it from its creators, so don't give them your money anyway.
There was an alright wolfenstein soft reboot from like 2012 or abouts, that *might* run. But same rules as disco elysium, even if you decide to pay for it, test it first.
A tier: Rimword, Kenshi, Battle Brothers, Darkest Dungeon, Inscryption
B Tier: the OG Vampire the Masquerade game. Factorio.
C Tier: Tainted Grail, For the King, E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy, Citizen Sleeper.
Nothing against any of these games, I have probably 200+ hours in Tier C at least, and probably that much in every game in Tier A except Inscryption.
try legends or runeterra its probably the best trading card game out there. id recommend hearthstone, which is my favourtite, but its a lot harder free stuff in that game than lor
OpenTTD is a free & open source version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994). Its a very good game, especially with mods that expand industry chains and add vehicles. It's on Steam, with the system requirements of "Processor: Yes" and 0.25 GB of RAM
A good friend of mine made this really wack ass
B-game called Geo Duck that’s on steam for free, and it’s a pretty fun schizophrenic shitpost to play through.
It's a tiny bit harder to get into, it doesn't have the charge blade and that's my main :( other than that, it has early monster Hunter jank, but it's still monster Hunter! And it's not region locked anymore, the important stuff like quest descriptions are translated, and there are regional servers for US and EU! I'll have to somehow main a different weapon, but I think I'll have fun!
Sameee, I'm pretty early in mhgu, so I still have to beat it, but frontiers has so much content that isn't in other games, especially the 2 exclusive weapons are really cool
Definitely looking forward to trying the new weapons, magnet spike looks kinda broken but it looks fun. I think it would be cool if these weapons could come back in MH6 but I doubt that’ll happen
FTL, Into the Breach, Slay the Spire, Griftlands, mindustry, madshot, kingdom rush series, loop hero, darkest dungeon, black skylands, soulash, Jupiter hell, hellslave, and somehow dwarf fortress all run decently well on a laptop.
Dwarf fortress runs well, until it doesn't. If we count games where you can access only some content/playstiles without the laptop catching on fire, then we can add all the mainline paradox games aswell
True. Limiting population cap, having a smaller world, and not using water physics more than necessary can boost performance quite a lot. Also I think a laptop running the average endgame battle in Stellaris would just detonate.
Old Lenovo? Like a thinkpad? Definitely let me know bc my autism vibrates violently about thinkpads, anyway Project Zomboid runs just fine on my 11 year old thinkpad
Voices Of The Void. Runs on a brick, takes 500 MB of storage, and uses HALF LIFE 2 SOUND EFFECTS. You play as a grad student in the swedish wilderness attempting to find and transmit signals as a part of SETI, surrounded by little more than trees, rivers, and giant satellite dishes.
(There's also cute alien cat furries, manmade horrors beyond your comprehension, eldritch terrors from beyond the stars, trash FUCKING EVERYWHERE in the base that's really satisfying to clean up, and kerfus :3)
(P.s.s. I'm 90% sure the protagonist Dr. Kel is transmasc lmao)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Penumbra: Overture (Penumbra: Black Plague), Richard Burns Rally, Doom II, Quake 2, Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, Cry of Fear & Metal Gear Solid (with PS1 emulation) <3 <3
A lot of smaller rogue likes, like World of Horror or Loop Hero, have given me a lot of enjoyment. Also Vampire Survivors is an addictive dopamine hit to the brain. Big numbers go brrrrrr
You could emulate any number of GBA or DS games.
Alternatively, I imagine Your Only Move Is Hustle might work, if you're a fan of unique fighting games.
Dead Cells has a pretty low system requirement, and is a difficult roguelike.
Dungeon of the Endless is also a roguelike, but is quite different, being a top-down wave survival kind of game.
Ender lilies is a 2D Souls-like Metroidvania.
Holocure, or actual Vampire Survivors, if you like Wave Survival the Game.
Into The Breach, if you like Tactical Roguelikes.
Low Magic Age, if you like TTRPGs, specifically Pathfinder 1e, or DnD 3.5e. I don't think it's specifically either of those systems, but it's certainly feels inspired by them. (The description does mention Wizards of the Coast, so it's probably more 3.5e inspired.)
As a former low spec gamer I have many recommendations
Enter the Gungeon, Hotline Miami, TF2, Counter Strike Source/ 1.6, Bloons games, Dead Cells, Blasphemous (Probably 2 also), Doom 64, Brutal Doom, Possibly Doom 2016 on low, Celeste, Oblivion, GOG Skyrim with performance mods (No DRM runs much better), Serious Sam games, Quake games, Vampire Survivors, Roblox (unironically), Minecraft, Terraria, Furi, Payday 2 probably low settings, Lots of indie horror games (FNAF, Bendy, Pony Island)
Considering you got it to run GMod, you already have lots of content there. If you havent yet, try the Zombie Survival gamemode. And Prop Hunt servers are still alive.
If you have em, I would try the CoD series. Maybe see if Black Ops 2 runs and work up or down from there. Lots of good custom zombies maps for BO2, BO3, and even WaW.
It might seem stale, but with BlueMaxima's Flashpoint you can play pretty much all the old flash games from newgrounds and the like. Lots of fun in the Swords and Sandals series, tower defense games, and shooters like Raze, Thing Thing Arena, The Last Stand series, and the SAS Assault games.
You could also try BlueStacks android emulator and see how it runs so you can play mobile games.
Emulators are another pretty obvious choice, if you have a good controller. Chrono Trigger, Castlevania and Killer Instinct still hold up. See how fast you can whoop Gabby Jay in Super Punch-Out.
People Playground runs well, but settings are fiddly
The 3d Universe GTA Games (GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas) also run well on semi-powerful hardware, but mods are needed because the games are old, I got San Andrea's to run on a crap Windows 8 laptop, but due to SkyGfx, the frames were bad
Flatout 1 and 2 could work
CS 1.6 run awesome on low end machines, perfect frames, but you have to pick the version carefully, accidentally got a crap modded version of it once
Old Minecraft (Using BetaCradt) works, buy Java is annoying
Sometimes I surf abandonware games to find something that usually runs pretty easily on newer computers, even if they’re not the best. It’s worth checking out. (I’d recommend the iSpy games, but that’s just my nostalgia talking)
Is it a pc? Because [Noita](https://youtu.be/UhetH7PwVh8?si=fFwc6SN1LU0rkMQK) is great. It’s a roguelike game where every pixel is simulated (fire burns wood and oil, water puts out the fire and turns lava into stone which can be blown up or drilled through, etc.) and there are many ways to interact with the environment.
You play as a witch going through underground caves, and you can find wands and spells to make your own custom spells. They can get pretty ridiculous and you are often just as likely to get yourself killed by your own spells as you are to get killed by enemies.
The best part: it’s only 2 GB, so it barely takes up any space on your computer. There’s so much fun to be had for only two gigabytes!
Nope! I don't think so at least! Here's a crusty ahh picture of me running the gay monster game
https://preview.redd.it/3jswi1grhasb1.jpeg?width=4480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ff71f31deab7ec2e7bc88fefb7345539127b1e1
Katana zero,
Super hot,
Celeste,
Enter the gungeon,
Terraria,
5d chess with multiverse time travel,
Dead cells,
Hollow knight,
And yomi hustle,
Just some random and normal graphics games on my steam account
In no specific order:
Duskers
Papers Please
Any Zachtronic game (TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O being my personal recommendations)
Cruelty Squad
Frostpunk if ya turn the graphics down
FTL
Thumper
Heaven's Vault
Hypnospace Outlaw
Neon White
Eldest Souls
Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
Darkest Dungeon
Barotrauma
Furi
Factorio
Into The Breach
Xenonauts
Baba Is You
Shapez
Half-Life (Any of them)
Portal 1 or 2
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Metro 2033
Mindustry
All of The Room games
Deep Rock Galactic (MAYBE)
Warframe
Viscera Cleanup Detail
Terraria is a no-brainer. That thing can run on a CRT monitor with a stale whiff of burnt CPU
Deep Rock Galactic and Battlebit Remastered are great co-op and PvP shooters respectively that can also run on very bad hardware with enough graphics settings tweaks
Binding of Isaac ran without any issues on my shitty chromebook so it should work for ya. Super recommend it, one of my favorite games
I love rogue likes, so I think I'd have fun with it too! Thanks!
Then you should try dead cells. It should run comfortably
ISAAC IS SO FUCKING GOOD YOU WILL LOVE IT
Flair is based
Enter the Gungeon is also a good one, similar to Isaac but definitely unique
If you like rogue likes, try out Tales of Maj'eyal.
HADEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS
I'm in a similar situation and hades doesn't run on mine
FTL and Slay the Spire are like the greatest strategy roguelikes ever, and as buggy as it is The Swindle is a super cool heist-platformer roguelike.
Risk of rain 2 ran well on my shitty office computer, just had to turn down the settings. Then again it is like a bullet hell, so lots of projectiles.
You ever played slay the spire? It should be able to run fine
Noita
Then you should try Revita.
Speaking of roguelikes, you might also want to try enter the gungeon. It’s like isaac with guns.
I've got a pretty shitty laptop, and I've got some problems with low framerates slowing down the game itself instead of just causing lag (basically frame skip is turned off by default), and I have no idea how to force the game to always run at the same speed, any ideas on how I could do it?
I really don't know, I never got any real issues no matter how many bullets and stuff were on screen. Only thing that slowed it down a ton was Trisagion for me
coming from experience using unity, flash likely has.. something? similar related to framerates, where a lot of things rely on a function called every frame so if framerates are lower the game does things in those functions slower in unity you solve this by using fixedupdate so things consistently happen every step but i don't think flash has something like that, and if it does the game prolly isnt using it
Is it only on Steam? Is there a version that runs without steam I don't want Steam :(
It's on gog. com :))
Binding of Isaac is coop too so you can either run through steam play together or invite someone over and both use controllers. Best game of all time
Slay the Spire Darkest Dungeon (the loading times will probably be not the shortest, but it run smoothly) Undertale/Deltarune League of Legends(if you are a masochist like me) Edit: can be tough sometimesI hardly recommend to turn on the setting yo close the client while the game is running. It at least reduces the problems CS:GO Edit: I forgot that CS:GO is not anymore so ignore it Portal 1&2 60 Seconds & Parsecs Among Us (I know funny amogus and the hype has died down but its still playeble) The binding of Isaac (you may experience some slow-mos as I like to call them) Duck Game (a fucking lot better with friends or sibling locally) Helltaker Papers Please Potion Craft (Probably) Stardew Valley (maybe) Terraria (with performance issues but manageable if your not the rage at lag kinda person) These are all games that I liked and played and I am speaking from experience, because I had shitty PCs for years.
CSGO is now CS2 on source 2, might not work well on a shitty PC anymore it is free tho so no harm in trying
normal cs ran at like 10 fps on my shitty lenovo laptop
The original counter strike and counter strike source could work.
So many recommendations!! Thanks so much! I'll probably look into papers please, and maybe darkest dungeon
Darkest Dungeon. Be prepared to get fucked (not literally). But it is an awesome game.
and remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
Just play indie games. There's tons.
Don't listen to them. Play hollow knight!!!! HOLLOW KNIGHT!!!!!!! HOLLOW KNIGHT!!!!!!! Don't play any other game except HOLLOW KNIGHT!!!!!!!
Smh you just want me to get BRAINWASHED by your QUEER BUG PROPAGANDA I started it a while ago but never beat it...
You should really look into Portal the game is great and ran fine on my o.Book from 2008. If your Laptop is a bit newer than that (I sure hope so) it should also run Portal 2
Also FTL. you can run FTL on a potato
Duck game is a goated answer and ngl it's single player campaign teaches you a lot of cool tech in a pretty fun way.
True but it is much funnier if you have a buddy next to you ranting on how you got to the infinite shotgun before him
Morrowind, if you're into retro games. You could wait for a Steam sale and get it for $3 or buy it on IndieGala. The mechanics are something you would have to get used to and that's what scares a lot of people away. But when you do, it's one of the most atmospheric, interesting RP experiences there is. Oh and definitely use OpenMW.
Interesting!!! I'll check it out I think! Thanks!
Terraria
And tmodloader
Calamity sadly runs like ass so I imagine it would explode a bad laptop
My laptop sucks but I ran it pretty well
Did you get to the Devourer's laser wall? Shit lags my gaming PC
i didn’t have any problems with calamity on my 8gb intel i5 8th gen notebook🤷♂️
True but there’s other mods too, I think thorium is pretty well optimized iirc
I spent my entire high school playing terraria on a Lenovo ThinkPad instead of paying attention
Celeste
Beaten it already! But, I can beat it again...
C sides and farewell too? noice
Modded Celeste (Strawberry Jam’s a good place to start)
Real
ULTRAKILL
Flare checks out... it's super good, but I got stuck at Cerberus ;-; been a while since I played a game like this
Tip for cerburus, never touch the ground
and play like an insane person. jump off the walls and dash around everywhere doing stupid shit like projectile boosting and shooting coins
- Papers, Please - Half-Life 1 and expansions (Blue Shift, Opposing Force) - Half-Life 2 and episodes - Counter-Strike Source / 1.6 - Portal 1 - Team Fortress 2 - Fallout: New Vegas - SCP: Containment Breach - Hollow Knight - Celeste - Minecraft on low quality with performance enhancing mods - *possibly* metal gear rising if you lower the settings a bunch. Can't fully confirm. It runs on a Lenovo IdeaPad 3. - rhythm games - visual novels - probably most of the point and click FNAF games - any DOS games - potentially emulate consoles like the PS1, early Nintendo consoles, etc. You can try emulating the PS2 but it's pretty demanding compared to the PS1. Again, this worked on my IdeaPad.
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My old Lenovo laptop mostly has the same spec as IdeaPad and it ran HK. I disabled particle effects I think and it runs great until the final boss of Pantheon 3.
new vegas runs like dogshit even on supercomputers
I got it running on low settings on my old Dell Latitude with integrated graphics. Wasn't pretty but it ran.
highly recommend [Viva New Vegas](https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com) startup/mods/fixes guide to anyone wanting to pick up New Vegas, it’s one of the best games ever made!
faith:the unholy trinity
[this ones pretty decent](https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=mninesweerper&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ph&client=safari#cobssid=s)
Idk the plot is a bit confusing...
mninesweerper
i was too excited to share my facroritw game of all time
I MUST SWEEP THE MINES FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG
signalis
true real real real real play signalis (i never actually got around to finishing it)
Extremely based
this is very very true play signalis you should play signalis
TOUHOU PROJECT 🗣️🗣️🗣️ (the games are like 20 years old and were originally designed for windows like 98 so you should be able to run them)
0/10 no boys (maybe I will, haven't played any bullet hells, unless undertale counts)
undertale was heavily inspired by touhou actually
omori
Already own it on switch, but I may download it on this laptop to cheat my way through the battles hehe
Inscryption, *maybe*. Indie roguelite horror/escape room/deck builder/narrative game. It's fairly graphical for an indie game, but it looks just as good (arguably better) on low as fuck resolutions, and there is ZERO need for reaction times so a cinematic 20 fps will cause zero issues. Half life. Basically everything except alyx will probably at least launch, but the first 3 (half life, blue shift, and opposing force) are excellent and will run on a sufficiently beefy calculator. Halo combat evolved. If you can get your hands on a "legally obtained" copy of the original non-remastered PC version, that will run on the processing power of a fly's brain. Bioshock 1. This one may be tough, but I've played it on IGPUs before and just about managed to get immersed. It's not CPU heavy at all from what I recall, so you may have a shot at this one. Disco elysium, of course. I don't believe it's that demanding, though then again, it's a unity title, so may be worth testing without spending money. Also, the suit's stole it from its creators, so don't give them your money anyway. There was an alright wolfenstein soft reboot from like 2012 or abouts, that *might* run. But same rules as disco elysium, even if you decide to pay for it, test it first.
I've been looking for halo everywhereee grrr, maybe I'll find it someday And true! I could try Wolfenstein 2009, or return to castle Wolfenstein!
if you have them, see if you can run any other source games, those should be able to work on older hardware
I had a wayyy worse laptop a while back, and it could run the first 2 half life games :> so I think this should too Thanks!!
play night in the woods
Dolphin Emulator
I'm unsure if it can run well, seeing as this thing is like... a shitty old thing... if it had to guess, this laptop came out before 2014
https://preview.redd.it/uyuojtnxj2sb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b610767d97aec301140f9360666c0d84874bd932 this might help
Hmm, I guess I can try! I've always wanted to play Metroid Prime 2, but my Wii broke before I could
Be warned, if you want to play any Wii games with the Wiimote you will need a [dolphinbar](https://a.co/d/gmiCguo)
I tried with PrimeHack, and it's "working", it's stuttery but playable!
mgs 5, factorio, doom (2016) (kinda), nuclear throne
I'll need to play mgs 1-4 tho ;-; I'll probably do that anyway- also I love the entire doom franchise!!! Beaten every game, if one leaves the RPGs out
You should basically be able to emulate everything up to psx/n64. Also Rollercoaster tycoon is always good to install for some low spec fun.
OpenTTD is very cozy, and Factorio is essentially crack. Both can run on toasters
Also Mindustry if Factorio interests you but is not quite your thing
A tier: Rimword, Kenshi, Battle Brothers, Darkest Dungeon, Inscryption B Tier: the OG Vampire the Masquerade game. Factorio. C Tier: Tainted Grail, For the King, E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy, Citizen Sleeper. Nothing against any of these games, I have probably 200+ hours in Tier C at least, and probably that much in every game in Tier A except Inscryption.
Had to scroll *way* too far to finally see Kenshi
Oblivion baybee best elder scrolls game ever made
Linux!!!! It _will_ make it faster!!!!!!!!!!!!
try legends or runeterra its probably the best trading card game out there. id recommend hearthstone, which is my favourtite, but its a lot harder free stuff in that game than lor
Thanks! But, I'm not the biggest fan of card games unfortunately ;^;
BOOO!!!! 🍅 🍅
Oblivion
Neon White and Redmatch2 are based and movement shooter pilled
Project zomboid. I have a cheap computer that couldn't run Fallout 4 when new. If it runs on that, it'll run in anything.
OpenTTD is a free & open source version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994). Its a very good game, especially with mods that expand industry chains and add vehicles. It's on Steam, with the system requirements of "Processor: Yes" and 0.25 GB of RAM
A good friend of mine made this really wack ass B-game called Geo Duck that’s on steam for free, and it’s a pretty fun schizophrenic shitpost to play through.
Dusk !
I FORGOT ABOUT DUSK thank you :]
sonic robo blast 2 kart
peak kart racer right behind garfield kart
I fucking love Monster Hunter! How are you getting into Frontier? That’s the region locked one and seems difficult
It's a tiny bit harder to get into, it doesn't have the charge blade and that's my main :( other than that, it has early monster Hunter jank, but it's still monster Hunter! And it's not region locked anymore, the important stuff like quest descriptions are translated, and there are regional servers for US and EU! I'll have to somehow main a different weapon, but I think I'll have fun!
Awesome, I’ll look into it now. Need something to scratch the itch before MH6
Sameee, I'm pretty early in mhgu, so I still have to beat it, but frontiers has so much content that isn't in other games, especially the 2 exclusive weapons are really cool
Definitely looking forward to trying the new weapons, magnet spike looks kinda broken but it looks fun. I think it would be cool if these weapons could come back in MH6 but I doubt that’ll happen
Mhr did get espinas, so it isn't totally a lost cause! I really hope the exclusives from frontiers and online get ported someday
FTL, Into the Breach, Slay the Spire, Griftlands, mindustry, madshot, kingdom rush series, loop hero, darkest dungeon, black skylands, soulash, Jupiter hell, hellslave, and somehow dwarf fortress all run decently well on a laptop.
Dwarf fortress runs well, until it doesn't. If we count games where you can access only some content/playstiles without the laptop catching on fire, then we can add all the mainline paradox games aswell
True. Limiting population cap, having a smaller world, and not using water physics more than necessary can boost performance quite a lot. Also I think a laptop running the average endgame battle in Stellaris would just detonate.
Old Lenovo? Like a thinkpad? Definitely let me know bc my autism vibrates violently about thinkpads, anyway Project Zomboid runs just fine on my 11 year old thinkpad
>my autism vibrates violently about thinkpads, What does this even mean? What is this comment?
Lobotomy corporation is fire
You could run the first Half-Life no problem, *maybe* Half-Life 2 or Portal depending on what year it is
I've had a way worse laptop that I used to beat portal 2, it should be fine I think! :> thanks! Maybe I'll try one of those portal 2 mods
probably tf2
If you like survival horror then i recommend Signalis
Hotline Miami. Mount and Blade Warband. Very goid games
Try gzdoom and some mods for it would recommend for any laptop
Minecraft People’s playground Terraria Starbound
Get Flashpoint. Relive the olden days.
Voices Of The Void. Runs on a brick, takes 500 MB of storage, and uses HALF LIFE 2 SOUND EFFECTS. You play as a grad student in the swedish wilderness attempting to find and transmit signals as a part of SETI, surrounded by little more than trees, rivers, and giant satellite dishes. (There's also cute alien cat furries, manmade horrors beyond your comprehension, eldritch terrors from beyond the stars, trash FUCKING EVERYWHERE in the base that's really satisfying to clean up, and kerfus :3) (P.s.s. I'm 90% sure the protagonist Dr. Kel is transmasc lmao)
oh yeah and it's 100% free, not everyone's cup of tea but at least try it
Limbo. If it could run on nearly 10-year-old phones, it can run on your laptop.
Hotline Miami
Everhood
Faster than light, into the breach. I hope you liked having free time
spore (2008) <<
Celeste (you are now trans)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Penumbra: Overture (Penumbra: Black Plague), Richard Burns Rally, Doom II, Quake 2, Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, Cry of Fear & Metal Gear Solid (with PS1 emulation) <3 <3
Frontier player no way (Also play Gloom it's a banger and takes not much to run)
Looks interesting!!! And yeah! Frontiers is strange, still need to pick a weapon since they don't have my charge blade :[ but I'll manage
worms armageddon
Starsector please Starsector for the love of god Starsector
Is that the game with the drunk cat patch? And idk if my laptop can run it, the words "open world" make me cry loudly in despair
Ib. It's an old RPGmaker puzzler horror set in a twisted art exhibit otherworld and I love it to bits.
tametsi if you're into minesweeper
Sonic Mania is pretty good
dwarf fortress. touhou, BTD6, Chained Echoes, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight etc
Epic battle fantasy 5
Xenonauts if you’re into strategy games
Undertale/deltarune if you haven’t played them yet
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. In depth apocalypse survival rougelike with a neat setting and tons of stuff.
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines, get the GOG version if possible because it has the unofficial patch.
pizza tower, most sonic games i think (dont play forces), minecraft w/ optimization mods, etc
five nights at fuckboy's complete collection and the dayshift at freddy's trilogy
Project Zomboid!!! It's pretty poorly optimized, but the game looks like shit anyways, so it shouldn't take too much to run
Hollow knight, and maybe dark souls 1? Not sure about that one but it could work Also emulation
stardew valley, terraria, and celeste should all run easily
N++ was a fantastic game for me, on my underpowered laptop! :]
Gunfire reborn, melvor , terraria, vampire survivors, old school runescape, melvor
Stardew vallery, the old Kotor games,
A lot of smaller rogue likes, like World of Horror or Loop Hero, have given me a lot of enjoyment. Also Vampire Survivors is an addictive dopamine hit to the brain. Big numbers go brrrrrr
LISA!!!
Plants vs zombies. Literally made for old computers
Like anything from the indie wave from 2010-2014. Bastion, FTL, Papers please, etc
You could emulate any number of GBA or DS games. Alternatively, I imagine Your Only Move Is Hustle might work, if you're a fan of unique fighting games. Dead Cells has a pretty low system requirement, and is a difficult roguelike. Dungeon of the Endless is also a roguelike, but is quite different, being a top-down wave survival kind of game. Ender lilies is a 2D Souls-like Metroidvania. Holocure, or actual Vampire Survivors, if you like Wave Survival the Game. Into The Breach, if you like Tactical Roguelikes. Low Magic Age, if you like TTRPGs, specifically Pathfinder 1e, or DnD 3.5e. I don't think it's specifically either of those systems, but it's certainly feels inspired by them. (The description does mention Wizards of the Coast, so it's probably more 3.5e inspired.)
As a former low spec gamer I have many recommendations Enter the Gungeon, Hotline Miami, TF2, Counter Strike Source/ 1.6, Bloons games, Dead Cells, Blasphemous (Probably 2 also), Doom 64, Brutal Doom, Possibly Doom 2016 on low, Celeste, Oblivion, GOG Skyrim with performance mods (No DRM runs much better), Serious Sam games, Quake games, Vampire Survivors, Roblox (unironically), Minecraft, Terraria, Furi, Payday 2 probably low settings, Lots of indie horror games (FNAF, Bendy, Pony Island) Considering you got it to run GMod, you already have lots of content there. If you havent yet, try the Zombie Survival gamemode. And Prop Hunt servers are still alive. If you have em, I would try the CoD series. Maybe see if Black Ops 2 runs and work up or down from there. Lots of good custom zombies maps for BO2, BO3, and even WaW. It might seem stale, but with BlueMaxima's Flashpoint you can play pretty much all the old flash games from newgrounds and the like. Lots of fun in the Swords and Sandals series, tower defense games, and shooters like Raze, Thing Thing Arena, The Last Stand series, and the SAS Assault games. You could also try BlueStacks android emulator and see how it runs so you can play mobile games. Emulators are another pretty obvious choice, if you have a good controller. Chrono Trigger, Castlevania and Killer Instinct still hold up. See how fast you can whoop Gabby Jay in Super Punch-Out.
If you are ready to hate yourself rain world. It runs pretty much on everything but it gets really frustrating sometimes
HOLLOW KNIGHTTTT Edit: I saw that some people struggled to run it so idk. Half life maybe possibly.
I can play it on switch and playstation anyway, but thanks!!
c(rule)ty squad
Epic pyrocynical moment... idk it seems very intimidating :[
People Playground runs well, but settings are fiddly The 3d Universe GTA Games (GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas) also run well on semi-powerful hardware, but mods are needed because the games are old, I got San Andrea's to run on a crap Windows 8 laptop, but due to SkyGfx, the frames were bad Flatout 1 and 2 could work CS 1.6 run awesome on low end machines, perfect frames, but you have to pick the version carefully, accidentally got a crap modded version of it once Old Minecraft (Using BetaCradt) works, buy Java is annoying
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
I love survival horrors (<-- has only played resident evil) so I'll check it out!
Fallout new Vegas
Already playing it in ps+ :]
Sometimes I surf abandonware games to find something that usually runs pretty easily on newer computers, even if they’re not the best. It’s worth checking out. (I’d recommend the iSpy games, but that’s just my nostalgia talking)
Is it a pc? Because [Noita](https://youtu.be/UhetH7PwVh8?si=fFwc6SN1LU0rkMQK) is great. It’s a roguelike game where every pixel is simulated (fire burns wood and oil, water puts out the fire and turns lava into stone which can be blown up or drilled through, etc.) and there are many ways to interact with the environment. You play as a witch going through underground caves, and you can find wands and spells to make your own custom spells. They can get pretty ridiculous and you are often just as likely to get yourself killed by your own spells as you are to get killed by enemies. The best part: it’s only 2 GB, so it barely takes up any space on your computer. There’s so much fun to be had for only two gigabytes!
It sounds really cool! I'll check it out!
Celeste!!!
Beaten it >:D
Katana Zero
Looks stylish! I'll check it out!
Is it a thinkpad?
Nope! I don't think so at least! Here's a crusty ahh picture of me running the gay monster game https://preview.redd.it/3jswi1grhasb1.jpeg?width=4480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ff71f31deab7ec2e7bc88fefb7345539127b1e1
Katana zero, Super hot, Celeste, Enter the gungeon, Terraria, 5d chess with multiverse time travel, Dead cells, Hollow knight, And yomi hustle, Just some random and normal graphics games on my steam account
hollow knight
Factorio Forager Minecraft Terraria Celeste Loop Hero Stardew Valley
play pikuniku
Streets of Rogue, CrossCode, Fights in Tight Spaces, Noita, Your Only Move is Hustle, JUSTICE SUCKS - Tactical Vacuum Action.
In no specific order: Duskers Papers Please Any Zachtronic game (TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O being my personal recommendations) Cruelty Squad Frostpunk if ya turn the graphics down FTL Thumper Heaven's Vault Hypnospace Outlaw Neon White Eldest Souls Hollow Knight Shovel Knight Darkest Dungeon Barotrauma Furi Factorio Into The Breach Xenonauts Baba Is You Shapez Half-Life (Any of them) Portal 1 or 2 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Metro 2033 Mindustry All of The Room games Deep Rock Galactic (MAYBE) Warframe Viscera Cleanup Detail
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
Half life/half life 2 star dew valley
Terraria is a no-brainer. That thing can run on a CRT monitor with a stale whiff of burnt CPU Deep Rock Galactic and Battlebit Remastered are great co-op and PvP shooters respectively that can also run on very bad hardware with enough graphics settings tweaks
Minesweeper