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.
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.
Stardew could run on a toaster.
Factorio has an extensive demo and should run well
Depends on the taste but OpenTTD is just awesome. Also it’s worth to take a look at archive.org
Minetest, Mindustry
The 3D era GTAs, Red Alert, GBA emulator (pokemon, spiderman, shrek, a lotta good games from that time).
Deep Rock Galactic! Rock and Stone!
Try Hollow Knight and Dead Cells. Both ran perfectly on my ancient laptop.
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!
OpenRCT2 (Roller coaster tycoon) and SRB2Kart (a sonic mariokart game)
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 🙂Having a 16 year old of my own I can also tell you it can play Fortnite.
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.
I’ve had a similar setup for quite some time, but you didn’t mention what GPU you’re running, also since you’re running Mint, are you comfortable with Windows games (through wine/proton) and emulation?
There’s lots of small gems in the old flashpoint archive (old flashgames), but I had trouble on linux with the last version I downloaded. https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads give it a run…
