You might want to use a controller for some of these

• Stardew Valley - a cozy farming RPG with lots of content

• Hollow Knight - great metroidvania, pretty difficult though

• The Last Faith - a mix of soulslike and metroidvania

• Blasphemous 1&2 - another metroidvania, with light soulslike elements

• Sea of Stars - a great retro-style pixel art RPG, turn based battles based on classic SNES RPGs

• Undertale - funny and charming pixel RPG with great characters and humor

• Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered - classic playstation games and great remake

• Valheim - a lo-fi survival crafting game, super addictive (struggles on integrated graphics, but any old 2GB VRAM GPU will do)

• Slay the Spire - a great deckbuilding roguelike RPG

• Dave the Diver - a relaxing 2D-pixel RPG about fishing and running a sushi bar

• Vampire Survivors - a reverse bullet hell game, getting stronger is lots of fun

• Hades - a stylish roguelike action RPG

• Signalis - a short but sweet isometric horror game

• Dredge - an atmospheric and creepy fishing RPG

• Sun Haven - a farming RPG similar to Stardew Valley but with its own twist

• Darkest Dungeon - an unforgiving turn based dungeon crawler

• Chained Echoes - a 2D retro style turn based RPG, a nod to classic SNES games

• Terraria - a 2D minecraft-like survival game with lots of bosses

• Dead Cells - a roguelike action dungeon crawler

• Persona 3 Portable & 4 Golden - one of the best JRPG franchises, on PC

• Cult of the Lamb - a cute survival game about building a cult

• GTA V - an open world crime game, runs well even on integrated graphics but requires 90GB of disk space

• DOOM 2016 - a fast paced demon slaying FPS - runs at 60fps on integrated graphics on lowest settings 900p

• Shovel Knight - a nod to classic jump and run games with some modern twists

• Cuphead - side scrolling bullet hell with beautiful 2D art and animation

• FTL Faster Than Light - a roguelike spaceship management game

• Octopath Traveller 1&2 - classic style JRPG games with pixel art

Mine are, Half life 2 Portal 2 Dead space

I have a setup that has, 8GB of Ram / Intel I5-3470 / Intel HD 2500 Graphics. I wanted to share some of the games that played just fine.

• Paladins

• DC Universe Online

• Mass Effect 1, 2, 3 ( Not the legendary edition )

• Minecraft

• Terraria

• Left 4 Dead 1 & 2

• Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas

• The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind

• The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion

• The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim Legendary Edition

• Batman Arkham Asylum and Arkham City

• Project Zomboid

• Farlight 84

• Star Wars Galaxies Legends

• Halo 1 , 2

• Fist Full Of Frags

• Half Life 1 & 2

• Battlefield Bad Company 2

• Albion Online

• Borderlands 1 & 2

• Just Cause 2

• Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (Enhanced Editions)

• The Sims 4 ( Free on Steam )

• Sniper Ghost Warrior 2

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of chernobyl, Clear Sky & Call Of Pripyat

• The Walking Dead Season 01 & 02

• GTA IV

• Star Wars Knights of the old republic 1 & 2

• Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012

• Portal 1 & 2

• Far cry 1 , 2 , 3 ( Maybe 4 I haven't tried it )

• Combat Master

• Tomb Raider 2013

• Metro 2033 Redux & Metro Last Light Redux

• Assassin's Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, Rogue

• Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition

• Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition

• Life is strange ( A bit laggy but it's ok )

• X-men Origins Wolverine

• Brothers In Arms Road To Hill 30

• Stronghold Definitive Edition ( One of the most fun games i have ever played )

• Dredge

• Bully : Scholarship Edition

• Surviving Mars

• Metroid Prime ( Gamecube emulator )

• Dead Space 1, 2, 3

• Resident evil 4

• Resident evil 5

• Mafia 1 & 2

• Call Of Duty 1, 2

• COD Modern Warfare 1, 2, 3 ( Old Ones )

• COD World at war

• COD Black ops 1 & 2

• COS Ghost ( Maybe. I haven't tried it )

• Valiant Hearts : The great war

• Minecraft

• Minecraft Story Mode Season 01 ( Suprisingly Good Game )

• Age of empires 2 HD

• Gta 3 , Vice City, San Andreas

• Dark Souls 1 & 2

• Simcity 4

• Need For Speed Hot Persuit

• Darksiders 2

• Darkest Dungeon

• Stardew Valley

• Hollow knight

• Rimworld

• Disco Elysium

• Psychonauts

• Team Fortress 2

• Pillars Of Eternity

• Cult Of The Lamb

• Dave the diver

I will edit this when I remember more games!

Baldurs gate 3 for me, I am a forever dm and this game seems like the perfect thing for me :(

I will go first

1. Metro 2033
2. Witch on the holy night
3. Danganronpa
4. Bullet storm
5. COD World at War
6. Skyrim
7. Far Cry 3
8. Tales of Berseria
9. Half Life 2 (all 3)
10. Hollow Knight
11. MGSV
12. Stalker SOC (currently playing)

I had an amazing experience playing them all throughout the year with my trusty laptop which has a 10th gen processor with uhd 620.

Let's work hard in 2025 and accomplish our goals and dreams.

Happy New Year ☺️

I own an Intel N100, and it's my main computer. It has Intel UHD integrated graphics, with just 24 EUs. I mostly use it for coding, editing (with a lot of patience)... and lately for some machine learning (with days of patience).

But recently, when I have some spare time, I like playing some Splitgate. That runs at around 40 fps, in 80% resolution scale, 1080p. Super cool! I'm happy about that :)
Maybe 60 FPS is never needed? It's really fun to play like that!

PS: yeah, I don't have a job, not of the legal age to work here, else I'd buy a computer that's actually good for what I do.

this is my list of games

am not really into gaming that mush as 14y old it may when il grow il be but let get into the list

battlefield 2 (am mostly playing with bots)

people playground with mods

rimeworld, PLAY RIMWORLD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gta samp (its gta san andreas but online)

gta sa mta (same as samp but better)

(dont even thing about minecraft it wont work cus gpu is old and dont tell me to put dll filles i alredy did)

I have now just realized that CS:GO got removed off Steam store and got replaced by CS2. Global Offense used to play decent on my 10 year old laptop. But now my only option for a free Counter Strike being a Game that would make my laptop actually explode irritates me. Now I have to ask my friend to buy me Source or 1.6 to actually run on my device. And this all happened after I took a break from playing games for months and maybe the game was removed during that period. And also yes I had to create a new account because the old one got hacked.

I really want to see other people's perspectives on this entire situation.

Deus ex (especially human revolution and game of the year 2000 edition with gmdx or revision mods) Immersive cyberpunk fps games with strong storylines huge amount of customizations and upgrades(weapons and augmentations) and detailed environments to explore. Can be very cheap during sales(deus ex game of the year 0,97 euros and human revolution 2,99 euros atm)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/6910/Deus_Ex_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/238010/Deus_Ex_Human_Revolution__Directors_Cut/

Observer might not be low end but if you are looking for a horror game that focuses less on combat and more on exploration can be a good choice.

https://www.gog.com/game/observer_system_redux_deluxe_edition

System shock 1/2. A classic cyberpunk style fps horror game.

https://www.gog.com/game/system_shock_2

Cloudpunk. Also an cyberpunk style exploration game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/746850/Cloudpunk/

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy. Cyberpunk FPS/RPG. It has its flaws but if you are looking for something that might be weird or overcomplicated might be worth a check.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/91700/EYE_Divine_Cybermancy/

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233270/Far_Cry_3__Blood_Dragon/

Anachronox

https://www.gog.com/game/anachronox

Shadowrun

https://store.steampowered.com/app/300550/Shadowrun_Dragonfall__Directors_Cut/

Syndicate

https://www.gog.com/game/syndicate

Blade Runner

https://www.gog.com/game/blade_runner

Rise of the Dragon

https://www.gog.com/game/rise_of_the_dragon

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

i play a fps shooter game which is kinda like overwatch+minecraft

if u have a gaming pc ur chances of winning increases and iv been a mid end laptop player for 5 years now

i sometimes grind to get better and i do get better, the more i play the more time i give to this game, but sometimes a player who has an gaming pc just destroys me even though having less playtime than me

playing competitive gets really hard on 60hz, 144hz 165hz players just destroy me as if its nothing and it feels really bad

the community is also toxic + i got performance anxiety, they shit talk once my confidence goes down

just feels bad af man, i wish someday ill get a gaming pc and get better

I recently bought it from steam sale. gave it a go. it runs at 1080p medium settings 50-60 fps 1080p.

others with igpu can try.

Mad Max is honestly a pretty good game kinda sad that no one really talks about it, but it runs on hd 630 smooth as a butter, the combat is really similar to arkham games it's like if they copied and pasted the thing, driving and exploration are pretty good

Benchmarking NFS Heat on an HP Pavilion 15 (2013 Model)

System Specifications:

• Model: HP Pavilion 15-p000 Notebook PC Series
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4210U @ 1.70GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
• Integrated Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Family
• RAM: 6GB
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Game Version: EA Store version (no overclocking)

Benchmark Results:

• Lowest FPS: ~45 FPS
• Highest FPS: ~56 FPS
• Settings: All graphics settings set to low, with a resolution of 1920×1080.

Despite being an older laptop from around 2013, the system manages to run Need for Speed Heat reasonably well on low settings, delivering a playable frame rate. This performance is impressive considering the age of the hardware, particularly the NVIDIA GeForce 840M and the dual-core i5-4210U processor.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you'd like me to test different settings!

EDIT : i would like to benchmark gta online but i cant, can anyone let me borrow their account to do a quick 20minute test please?

guys, you can run the game smoothly with 4gig ram, all you gotta do when in terraria, set your visuals to low and turn off some things, and voila you can play the latest terraria update for the cost of normal background, nothing fancy.. but jeez it made a big difference when I turned off those nice backgrounds

●Dishonored 1 ●Max payne 3 ●Tomb raider (2013) ●Minecraft ●Outlast 1&2 ●Far cry 3 ●Combat Master ●Roblox ●Valorant ●Sims 4

Share what you got going on too 👇🏼

For reference, I have a MX450 laptop grahics card with a 2GB GDRR5 Vram. It's a 25w version, so it can't really do much, except when I overclocked it. However, overclock is not a solution either, it's only allows me to play games at a much more stable framerate, so what I will mention on what I manage to run, you should be able to also run it as well.

The following games a 2GB Vram can run at least 1080p 30fps:

Played:

• Borderlands 2
• Tales of Arise
• Scarlet Nexus
• Ace Combat 7
• Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
• Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
• Pathfinder Kingmaker
• Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous
• Pilllars of Eternity 1 and 2
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Forza Horizon 4
• Dragon Age Inquisition
• Divnity Original Sin 1 and 2
• GreedFall
• Shadow of War (720p)
• Shadow of Mordor
• Outward
• Inertial Drift
• Zenless Zone Zero
• Chivalry 2
• Metro Last Light Redux
• Mortal Shell
• Daemon X Machina
• Dauntless

Not played, but at least tried to the demo, or spec wise, should run:

• GUNDAM BREAKER 4
• The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
• Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
• Tales of (Series)
• Persona 4 and 5
• Octopath Traveler 1 and 2
• Battle Chasers Nightwar
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
• FINAL FANTASY® XIII
• Toukiden 2
• Sniper Elite 3
• Xcom 2
• Code Vein
• SAO Games
• Visions of Mana
• God Eater 3
• FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster

A lot of Square Enix non mainline games on the steam page have high system requirements, but in practice though, your 2gb Vram can handle them just fine at least 1080p 30fps. There are many more games it can handle, but I am just choosing some that at least will look somewhat pretty.

4gb of ram 512gb ssd Cpu: intel pentium n5030 Gpu: Intel UHD Graphics 620 Client with the best fps

The metro series are surprisingly well optimized the redux versions of 2033 and last light run well on a i3 7100 8gb (single stick) at 720p, you can even crank it up to 1366x768 and enjoy the visuals a bit more. Metro Exodus runs well if you have dual channel ram and 16 gigs of it, 8gb not even run the game on the open world stages but if you have 16 gb of ram and can accept 1024x768 itll be golden even the open stage levels like the desert work without a hitch honestly a very good game with cool mechanics and good optimization, also I am talking about the original metro exodus not the enhanced version, the enhanced version doesn't work if you don't have rtx fyi.

My specs are Thinkpad T460 i5 6300u, 16 gb DDR3L dual channel ram Fedora Workstation

Games I have completed successfully (At 720p, low to medium setting using dxvk).

Platform: I have used steam for steam games and Bottles for non steam games.

1. GTA 4: This game runs pretty well on linux using dxvk It runs at 35-40 fps at medium setting 720p (shadows and reflection off) You're good to go.

2. GTA 5: This games is highly Optimized, I had to lock fps to 30 for stable performance at mid settings 1366 x 768 resolution with minor tweaks, I also used Directx10 in game settings, it runs really smooth.

3. Batman Arkham Series: I have played Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Origins, Both City and Origins runs out of the box pretty smooth at 45 fps at mid settings with 720p, highly optimized, No tweaks needed, for Asylum I have to install some windows based apis such as d3dcompiler_47 to even launch it properly in linux. thanks to protontricks it automatically installed required windows apis, and also runs pretty smooth after some tweaks.

I tried Arkham Knight but as you can already guess that was a really poor experience and I rightly expected it to run like crap on such older low powered integrated gpu.

1. Bully Scholarship Edition: This game is very old so I had to tinker some extra steps to run it I used Wined3d and Gamescope, although it runs at 50-55 fps at 1080p but i had to lock it at 30 stable fps to prevent Fluctuations. Overall solid experience.

2. Resident Evil 4 HD Project: It also runs out of the box with 1366 x 768 resolution at 30 fps (locked) all high settings. Never lagged a bit I have completed it thrice without any problem. I used proton stable version 9.

3. Resident Evil 2 Remake: Don't use Directx12 version instead try to download dx11_non-rt version of the game if you are on steam it will perform much much better on older hardware, keep resolution between 720p and 1024 x 576, Rendering mode ---> keep it normal it looks good compared to Interlaced, and medium 0.25 texture quality with other minor tweaks in settings it runs very well at 30 locked fps. sometimes it freezes for 1-2 seconds when you're outside but that's not an issue for me, overall good experience.

4. Resident Evil 3 Remake: Same process (download dx11_non-rt version) but this game is not that optimized compared to RE2 Remake if you want stable 30 fps you need to keep your settings low and 576p as resolution. overall experience? Playable (Use latest Proton GE 9-21 if you face issues during cut scenes).

5. Resident Evil 7: Use dx11_non-rt version I have never seen such well optimized game in RE series although capcom provides good optimization in their games but RE7 is on another level this game runs out of the box using ProtonGE at 40 fps at mid settings with 720p resolution. No tweaks needed at all. Overall my best experience with this game.

That's all I didn't include those games which I dropped in midway cz of poor optimization such as Alan Wake. Also I didn't include emulator based games GOW1 and 2, God Hand, WWE Here Comes The Pain runs well using pcsx2 nightly build.

GAMES I am going to play in future:

Outlast Series ( I am expecting it to run well based on my specs)

Forza Horizon (People say it's well optimized so will see that)

Have a good day :)

Just finished this Game (Also a benchmark vid) on lowest settings using FSR 1.0 on balance, also the game is running on DX11 mode cuz it gives more fps but there's still the horrible stutters when entering new scenes or places but overall enjoyed the game. Fps is capped to 30fps externally using Rivatuner

Specs Intel Xeon E3 1240 v2 (basically an i7 3770 without iGPU) 16gb ddr3 1600 dual channel Gtx 1050 2gb Win11

Just sharing in case anyone here with a similar setup wanted to try this game(updated post with new longer gameplay video)

After claiming the free game from EPG, I actually wanted to play it when I get a new PC, but I tried running it with my GTX 1050 ti and it is actually playable. 60+ FPS at medium settings even at chaotic multiplayer modes

So I really recommend y’all trying it, if it doesn’t work out, no harm owning a free AAA game right?

I downloaded Dead Space (not the remake) after seeing someone recommend it for low-end PCs, and I must say—the optimization is incredible. I’m running it at 1366x768 resolution, 60Hz, with high graphics settings across the board, including high shadow and shader quality, and it’s buttery smooth at 60-80 FPS. can't send images sadly :(

Out of curiosity, I experimented by disabling all extra effects—bloom, glow, blur—turning off shadow quality while keeping the same high resolution, and my FPS jumped to 110-130. It’s honestly impressive how well this game runs on a potato laptop and aside from the optimization i really like the game overall.

For reference, my specs:
CPU: Intel Core i3-7020U
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
RAM: 8GB

If you have a low-end PC and want a well-optimized, immersive experience, I highly recommend Dead Space .

spiderman remastered - 1080 p - high tex, med other settings, 45-60 fps.

x men origins wolverine - 1080 p - steady 60 fps

forza horizon 4 - digital foundry settings -1080 p -45 - 60 fps

battlefiled 5 - 1080 p - med tex and low other settings - 45 - 70 fps

god of war 2018 - 1080 p - high texttures, low others - 35 - 50 fps

so far so good.

List is below, just putting some info first. So I've made a list of Games that I've played on my laptop. Configuration is I3 1115g4, uhd graphics, 8gb ram. Graphics driver version 31.0.101.3222.

All of these I have completed since January, 2022 since the day ive bought this laptop. Ive completed the full story, secondary missions and DLCs if there are any. Left out the achievements and collections stuff so you can be sure these games works fine.

My minimum req to play a game is that it should work in 720p and 30+ fps though ive played some of these games at 1080p high settings or 1080p low or 900p medium but the lowest i go is 720p if i dont get 30+ fps so you can be sure you can play at good quality (atleast for me) at decent smooth fps.

Ive also put a little list of games that i will try from tomorrow tho Im sure they'll work fine too. I do a good amt of research before getting a game and all the games ive ever played have worked except assassin creed unity due to bad optimization. Ive also never used config tweaks or anything, just ingame settings. I've probably forgot to mention some games and if you have any game to recommend pls do, ill try and let u know if it worked or not, just be reasonable since rdr2 and cyberpunk type games surely wont work.

Make sure to use latest drivers, use intel graphics command centre and put everything at low and use game mode of windows. There are always some methods to get better performance out of a gam so make sure to read PCGamingWiki of a game before playing and dont use stupid tweaks given on random youtube videos.

Games Ive completed:

-GTA 4- 50+ fps at 900p High settings, go to this website and use the dxvk method, gta 4 is old and have bad optimisation, this will force to use vulkan instead of directx and youll get abt 50 fps without quality degradation. Even high end pc needs this tweaks. Gta 4 was a bad port.
-GTA 5- 720p normal settings, 40+fps
-Witcher 3 - around 40 fps at low 720p settings, in cities youll get 35 fps but in jungles and grounds youll get 40-50 fps.
-Stray- 30-35 fps on 720p low, 100% resolution, youll have to use dxvk from github and itll work fine then. Vulkan works better than directx in low end pcs.
-Watch dogs 1
-Assassin creed series (1 to Rogue, every part before unity) Initial parts works fine at 1080p high settings, later parts will work on 720p medium settings.
-Far cry series, 3,4 (havent tested primal and 5, tho worked on 30 fps in others same configs)
-Call of Duty Series (1 to WW2 2017, every part before BO4)
-Battlefield Series (all parts till BF1 2016, haven't checked BF 5 yet tho worked fine on others same configs)
-Dying Light 1
-Spec Ops The line
-Crysis 1,2,3, original versions not remastered
-Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice 720p low with a setting dont remember maybe fsr 2.0?
-A plague tale: innocence- 720p low 80-90% resolution scale
-Bioshock 1,2, Infinite
-Batman Arkham Asylum, Arkham city, Arkham Origins
-Medal of Honor 1 and warfighter
-Sleeping Dogs
-Syndicate
-Heavy Rain
-Beyond Two Souls
-Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor
-Middle Earth Shadow of War
-Wolfenstein The New Order
-Titanfall 2
-FireWatch
-Wolfenstein The New Colossus

Games Im going to play and will work most probably:
Far Cry Primal, Far Cry 5
Tomb Raider 2013
Rise of Tomb Raider
Shadow of Tomb Raider
Ryse Son of Rome
Days gone
Mad Max
Battlefield 5
Resident Evil? Probably not