Finding games that are limited to users hardware specs...

[jandarsun8]

I'm setting up an older laptop that's an 8th gen i7 with a built in Intel chip HD 620 with shared 512mb ram in the bios for my nephew and it's enough to run Sims 4 but that's an old game. Is there a way to do a search in the Steam store for only the games that will run on his hardware without the need to go into each game and find the minimum specs to it?

Both my sister and her son are not that computer literate and I'm trying to hook him up with something that works for school and light gaming. Steam has the hardware evaluation thing, I was wondering if that would be useful in determining which games the system could run or a specific filter to use that might help?

Thanks.

[Ogami]

Sadly there is no way to filter by that on Steam. The system requirements on each game´s store page is the only way to see on what hardware it will run.

As a external solution you could try using "Can you run it?"
https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

Basically it scans the specs of your system and saves them and then just click on any game in the database (they have everything Steam has) and it will tell you if your system could run it or not.
Mind you ,all this does is comparing your specs against the official system requirements.
So its not 100% accurate since often you can run a game fine even if the requirements say you are below minimum.

But its a start.

[nomorevideos]

Not that I am personally aware of, but there's third party websites that allow you to search for games based on the year. SteamDB's instant search lets you search by release year. An iGPU with 512MB isn't much, but it should still handle plenty of games at a reasonable frame rate. Alternatively, stay on Steam and use certain tags like 2D or pixel, most games with those tags are very easy to run.
My last suggestion would be to simply use YouTube to look at basic benchmarks. Many AAA/3D games also have benchmarks with the bare minimum to run them i.e. something similar to the laptop you're talking about. I feel like the best thing would be to eventually get ahold of a used gaming PC for your nephew. Something like an older i5/i7 or a Ryzen, with some cheap card like a 960, 1050, or RX580.

[Paratech2008]

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

Game per game basis.

Be careful it uses free hard drive space available, so you might have ok specs but not enough hard drive space.

[jandarsun8]

Thanks guys, I book marked the page for him so he can check it himself after I give this to him. I was trying to prevent him or his mom from buying something and then not being able to play it and potentially wasting money. I get that they can do a refund but trying to avoid having to go through all that so again, thanks everyone for your comments, I really appreciate it!