Any recommended low spec games?

[Curesto]

My main PC is died and i have Asus laptop it has:

 

i3-5005U CPU

12GB DDR3L 1600MHz RAM

Intel HD Graphics 5500 iGPU

500GB WD HDD 5400RPM

Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

 

From low spec games i love Terraria.

 

I'm looking for low spec singleplayer games.

 

Any recommendations?

 

[Tan3l6]

Mindustry

Perhaps even Spiritfarer

[jaslion]

Stardew valley

[Tan3l6]

Fantasy Farming: Orange Season is also a good farming game.

 

Also a good low spec - Star Valor

[JKRsega]

Live For Speed. Amazing online racing sim that's been developing since 2003!

[SPARTAN VI]

Graveyard Keeper, Wargroove, Stoneshard. Virtually everything on GOG.com with an original release pre-2010. 

[Levent]

Rimworld.

[RAM555789]

Terraria

[MLConian]

The original Rollercoaster Tycoon never disappoints - just use OpenRCT2 to get it going on Windows 10.

Untitled Goose Game also runs great on low spec machines.

[BiotechBen]

Spore was a cute game,  my 3050ti doesn't even go past idle to run it on max settings. 

Civ 3 was very low demand and a lot of fun, same with Age of Empires and AoE 2.

 

[John Reactor]

Faster Then Light

[mariushm]

There's a huge amount of NES and SNES games available for download if you know where to look,  and you can use emulator to play them. These days, emulators work very well. 

These should work even on barely working hardware, as there's no 3D acceleration needed, and the processors inside the NES/SNES are easy to emulate (8 bit 4 mhz chips can be emulated easily on 1 ghz+ processors) 

 

RPGs 

 

Dungeon Siege 1 and 2

Neverwinter Nights  (may be a bit too d&d for some people's tastes)

Divinity Original Sin 

 

Shooter / RPGs

Fallout 3 , Fallout New Vegas 

Skyrim will probably fine

 

Shooters 

Half-Life series : Half-Life 1 , Half-Life Blue Shift and Opposing Force, Half-Life 2 and the episodes may work 

Bioshock

FEAR

 

2D / Platformers 

 

Cave Story+ 

 

RTS 

Dune 2000 

Command & Conquer 

 

 

OpenTTD (transport tycoon deluxe open source)

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

Ship of Harkinian, eg Zelda Ocarina of Time PC port. Just needs a dual core.

 

 

I highly highly recommend Fallout 1 & 2 also, and they go on sale for $3 on GOG and Steam all the time.

[Guest]

On 8/8/2022 at 10:48 AM, BiotechBen said:

Spore was a cute game,  my 3050ti doesn't even go past idle to run it on max settings. 

Civ 3 was very low demand and a lot of fun, same with Age of Empires and AoE 2.

 

3050 ti is an insanely powerful GPU for its number.

 

STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl *might* run. I had a u series processor but I also had a dedicated GPU, so idk which was doing the leverage.

Chess.com lets you play chess on the web.

[BiotechBen]

3 hours ago, fpo said:

3050 ti is an insanely powerful GPU for its number.

 

STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl *might* run. I had a u series processor but I also had a dedicated GPU, so idk which was doing the leverage.

Chess.com lets you play chess on the web.

Also in fairness to Spore, my 3700U ran it without breaking a sweat, and played it originally on core2 duo MacBook with MAYBE HD 4000 graphics (polycarb unibody)

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Also in fairness to Spore, my 3700U ran it without breaking a sweat, and played it originally on core2 duo MacBook with MAYBE HD 4000 graphics (polycarb unibody)

yeah now that you mention it, spore came out years ago and I played that on windows xp.

 

I just believe that people forget how powerful RTX brand cards are though. 1050ti is like a low~mid tier 4k card. Insanely powerful.

[BiotechBen]

28 minutes ago, fpo said:

yeah now that you mention it, spore came out years ago and I played that on windows xp.

 

I just believe that people forget how powerful RTX brand cards are though. 1050ti is like a low~mid tier 4k card. Insanely powerful.

I'm very happy with my 3050ti, solidly outperforms my Rx 480.

[rikitikitavi]

Shovel Knight (Treasure Trove)