I have a potato PC lying around core 2 DUO (Dual Core) with 4GB RAM running linux mint.
What cool games for a 16 yr old I can have installed on it? Suggest some explicit content free game ideas.
Thanks in advance.
Want one of the best crpg of all time, still standing the test? Get Ultima VII. There should be a bunch of ways to play it, I believe, even if it’s from 1991 or so.
Try Hollow Knight and Dead Cells. Both ran perfectly on my ancient laptop.
The 3D era GTAs, Red Alert, GBA emulator (pokemon, spiderman, shrek, a lotta good games from that time).
Depends on the taste but OpenTTD is just awesome. Also it’s worth to take a look at archive.org
I like OpenRA. The Dune part is awesome.
I’d guess the most relevant suggestions from us oldsters will be this: If you are willing to pay a monthly fee and have a decent internet connection then Geforce Now can run on potatoes. Just for clarity it doesn’t come with these games, just allows you to connect your steam (and others) account and play them. It’s how I play BG3 🙂It can also play Fortnite.
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Could always fire up ye olde emulators. IDK if you could go a lot further then PS1 games but thats still a lot of ground.
I second this. Just look up the top 100 GBA, SNES, N64 etc games.
Advance Wars for example completely holds up, Ninja Five-O and more.
Undertale / Delta RuneSorry, missed that this is the freehames community.Deep Rock Galactic! Rock and Stone!
Stardew could run on a toaster.
Doom and Quake! When I used a potato PC as a daily driver the thing I played the most were boomer shooters. The source ports for both games are pretty amazing nowadays!
Minetest, Mindustry
Half-Life, you can run the original with the Xash3D engine so that it may run natively and with better features. Hell, thanks to Xash3D and the work of some random guy, I’ve gotten it to work on goddamn OpenBSD. Worked great.
Half-Life 2, can also work great whether you use Proton or try to setup Wine yourself.
Another great series are the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, good stuff. Make sure to play on the hardest difficulty. The scaling works on both you and the enemies taking more damage. And don’t get me started on the mods for those games.
I’ve been playing all of those on a Thinkpad X61, so they should run just fine with whatever you’ve got.
OpenRCT2 (Roller coaster tycoon) and SRB2Kart (a sonic mariokart game)
