Nethack

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

I would take a look at Warframe.

www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck

I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

Not smooth but Guild Wars 2 can run on those specs, obviously on very low settings.
Path of Exile should work also. These specs af not that bad. Most 10+ year old games should run easily. I would just check steam for older F2P games, there are a lot more. I think swtor and eso should run also. Those had F2P tiers.

@Grumpy404 I know 3 games that can run smooth on that hardware
1. Taisei Project
2. The Red Robot Radio
3. Midori in the Magic School
These games are open source and linux native

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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.

It’s definetly not for everyone but space station 14 can be a lot of fun.

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Gog has a small list of free games. Some can even be modded further, like Daggerfall.

notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-520.149940.0.…

The gaming benchmarks show you’ll probably be able to play most of the older f2p games at 720p low settings and be =>30fps.

Could give Ultima Online Outlands a try? But careful, addicitive but fun!

Maybe give www.luanti.org/en/ a shot.

Shattered pixel dungeon!

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.

any games made before your laptop should work. any of the Myst games or Ultima games…

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.

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.

Trackmania Nations Forever

If you like, there’s a paid version with more enviroments Trackmania United Forever

Open Transport Tycoon.

Ss14 and cdda

Xonotic

do u fw old minecraft? i like the beta version, its free if you use betacraft launcher >:)

While I’m not sure how much of a difference the CPU and RAM will cause, my current laptop has the same GPU, so I should have a general idea of what games will work on your laptop.

Since you mentioned RuneScape, I do actually have RuneLite (a third party client for OSRS) on this computer and it does run fine. I haven’t tested it yet but I’m pretty RuneScape (RS3) should also work well. The last time I ran RuneScape on Linux was when I had a computer with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 and I was able to get an almost playable frame rate at my usual graphical settings, so I’m curious about how well it’ll run on my current computer, but I currently don’t have any interest in playing RuneScape at the moment.

As for other games, if you’re interested in games similar to quake, I know that World of Padman worked pretty well when playing offline, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work well on your computer. It might seem like a weird choice at first but the levels are quite large and detailed, and the music is also pretty good as well. It started as a mod for Quake 3 before it became it’s own standalone game. This can either be downloaded from their website or from Flathub.

Similar to the previous, there is another similar game called Urban Terror. Similar to World of Padman, it also derived from Quake 3 but it looks and plays more like Counter Strike (or at least what I think CS plays like). I personally didn’t care for this one as much but some people might like it more than WoP. This can be downloaded from either their website or from Flathub.

Super Tux Kart

sauerbraten.org

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I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom

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.

If you like FPS

XONOTIC will be great

not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable

-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.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, Space Station 13 (online), Simutrans, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

lemmy.world/post/14336843

Emulate GBA and PS1.

I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft

I think the free Ascii version of Dwarf Fortress should run fine.

The original release of cave story is free.

www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php

I’m enjoying OpenTTD right now. Free and has native Linux support.

store.steampowered.com/app/1536610/OpenTTD/

Should run Wurm online just fine, which isn’t that demanding but is still a 3D games. Sandbox MMO that I got back into playing lately, casual game to most people.

2D games are great too like most people are suggesting, got a 2011 Pentium laptop running Drox Operative 2 at a smooth 60FPS.

Do emulated games count? I bet you could run most consoles.