Looking for low end games

[paulym5]

im looking for some good low end games. any ideas?

[mimizukari]

dungeon crawl stone soup, dominions, conquest of elysium

[Dooks]

Beans eredeti hozzászólása:

im looking for some good low end games. any ideas?

toxikk is similar to a few you play personally for me it is a resed up unreal championships but still fun

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

How low-end?

3D or 2.5D:
Recettear, Trails in the Sky, Ether Vapor Remaster, Fairy Bloom Freesia, Gurumin, Ys series, Team Fortress 2, DuckTales Remastered, Croixleur Sigma, Portal, Portal 2, Audiosurf, Beat Hazard, and more

fully 2D: One Way Heroics, Zombie Shooter, eXceed series, eversion, Mystik Belle, Terraria, Khimera, 100% Orange Juice, Dungeons of Dredmor, Anodyne, Freedom Planet, Mutant Mudds, Castle in the Darkness, Eryi's Action, Xeodrifter, VVVVVV, Momodora series, Titan Souls, and more

All of these (among others) are confirmed to work on the laptops I've used, which have no dedicated GPU.

[paulym5]

Pentium 4 2.2 ghz
Intel hd graphics
4 gb Ram

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I am not great with chip specs but, the Pentium is basically one generation/series behind the core i-whatevers right?

I had a Pentium with Intel HD 3000, this was several years ago, I and I remember it ran TF2 choppily (I was still able to get started by learning to play Heavy on it, and boy did I surprise myself with how not-suck I was when I finally switched to a more powerful machine that ran it at full speed later), and it also ran Terraria just fine though it had to be on 800x600 windowed (fullscreen 1366x768 caused slowdown).

It also ran a variety of other games just fine, like And Yet It Moves and Saira.

I'm going to bet that most stuff using RPG Maker's engine will work for you. This stuff has really low-end requirements, but don't be fooled into think it's just crappy games -- lots of good stuff, like Eternal Senia, Cherry Tree High Comedy Club, and (from what I've heard) LiEat are among them.

Given that TF2 runs, albeit a bit choppily, I would think that you should be fine with running various older Valve games -- Portal, Half-Life, and so on. Some quite solid games there.

3D stuff that doesn't look too modern should also be fine. For example, Recettear was my first Steam game (this was in late 2010) and that's the machine I played it on. Its predecessor, Chantelise, presumably also works fine. Those indie games were originally released on PC in 2007, so that should give you a sense. Trails in the Sky dates from 2004 and is also a PC native, though not indie, but it should also be fine. The Ys Napishtim-engine trilogy -- The Ark of Napishtim, The Oath in Felgana, and Origin -- were also released around then, though those are action RPGs with real-time combat so I am less sure of them even though they're from the same dev as Trails in the Sky (and they use a different engine anyway).

I remember I also had Deus Ex GOTY back then but I don't remember whether it ran right. It might have but I just didn't feel like playing it at the time. It probably did, to be honest, since it was first released in 2000.

And I'd presume that a number of other PC classics from the late 90s and early 00s should probably work too. There's the Thief trilogy (1998/2000/2004), Beyond Good And Evil (2003), System Shock (1994) and its sequel (1999), etc....none of those I've tried on that old machine, but all are worth considering based on their reputations amongst PC gamers.

Honestly there's quite a large repertoire of games that you can run on a relatively weak machine like this, it's just that you can't play the newest games. And even today you have devs who are interested in supporting older PCs -- for example I'm pretty sure you can play Mystik Belle on it, and that's a recent release, whose dev actually cares about optimization.

Any specific types of games in mind you wanna play?

[paulym5]

I’m interested in mainly strategy games, but I also like fps, simulation and rpg

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

If by RPG you mean WRPGs there's a ton of PC WRPGs from that era, like the Thief games and several D&D and D&D-inspired games like Neverwinter Nights (and its sequel), Baldur's Gate (and its sequel), Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, and so on. Not sure how many of them are available on Steam but I know GOG has them and also tends to support them better. Also lesser-known games like Albion, Anvil of Dawn, and various games from Spiderweb Software. Also the odd western-made JRPGs Septerra Core and Anachronox I think.

I'm less familiar with FPS, strategy, and simulation genres. But considering FPS games went big starting with Doom in 1994, I'm sure there are a variety from the late 90s and early 00s. And strategy and sim games have been around for even longer than that.

So that's just for older games. For more recent games...let's see...

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Well, for strategy my first thought is 100% Orange Juice, which is multiplayer strategy "party"-style board game, though that's probably not what you mean when you say strategy. Main thing is I don't really play much in the way of what's traditionally called "strategy", but...

Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure you can run Age of Empires and AoE 2, and probably also AoE 3? Also the original Starcraft, of course. All solid games.

There's a remake of AoE 2 on Steam but I don't know whether it runs on older computers. The older version shouldn't be hard to find though. You might run into graphical glitches; I know I did. But I could still enjoy the game.

If you want a strategy RPG in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics, there's Rime Berta. That'll probably run.

Sim games I'm just completely blanking on but I'd start by looking at major franchises' offerings from that time period I guess.

[paulym5]

Yeah, i have AoE 2, but havent really been able to get into it

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

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Yeah, i have AoE 2, but havent really been able to get into it

Why not, would you say?

[paulym5]

I don't really know. Maybe its becuase i have other games which i have more interest in. Another reason is that I like the big picture, controlling the whole country on a global scale. AoE 2 was mainly battles, but i am planning on coming back to it

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Beans eredeti hozzászólása:

I don't really know. Maybe its becuase i have other games which i have more interest in. Another reason is that I like the big picture, controlling the whole country on a global scale. AoE 2 was mainly battles, but i am planning on coming back to it

I've heard of larger-scale strategy games like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis. I don't have experience with them though so I can't say more about them.

[paulym5]

Yeah i have games like that but Supreme Ruler is better than those

[truxtonet]

Creeper World 3 is a fresh take on the strategy games and you will run it easily on a low end machine. Go give it a try.

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