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darcmage, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

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.

Clbull, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

There’s two edutainment games I remember playing on school PCs back in the early 2000s (either 2000 or 2001) and I’ve found nothing about them since. Asking about them on the TOMT and TOMJ subreddits got me nowhere.

One was set in a castle and had an intro where the main character crosses a moat. I remember it for a particular minigame where you operate a catapult and have to launch cabbages at people hiding in barrels, following instructions like “90 degrees clockwise”, “125 degrees anticlockwise”, etc. If you successfully hit all 8 targets without fail, the victory message was “You cabbage head!”

The other was more like a loose collection of minigames and several different CD collections were released. I used to own one that I found in a supermarket bargain bin. The minigame I remember on this collection involved moving a pin to pop balloons. The background music was some kind of weirdly upbeat jazz song.

lath, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

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

missingno, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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arudesalad, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

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

arsCynic, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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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.

missingno,
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Bit of an odd example to cite since both Golden Sun games are officially available on NSO.

Truscape,

Notice how the the NSO platform is not available on the PC? No sale, time to download.

missingno,
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The person I replied said Nintendo wasn't making their old games playable at all. You're complaining about something else.

arsCynic,
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Seems like it’s a yearly subscription membership only thing. If I can’t buy it and own it I pirate it.

squirrel, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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Grumpy404,

I’m actually the creator of that community…

squirrel,
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Oh, nice :)

brownsugga, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

The legend of Kyrandia or something

asgardius, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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@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
I_Clean_Here, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

You mean Sim Ants my dude

okmko,

I was going to say, I don’t remember a Microsoft Ants but I sure as hell remember SimAnts.

I never figured out if bringing a piece of food next to an egg made it hatch faster but omg as I’m typing this right now I realize that makes absolutely no sense. Why the hell would an egg hatch faster if it has no mouth. Wtf was I thinking as a kid, loool.

kindred,

I don’t mean SimAnts.

Microsoft Ants came out a few years later, on the Microsoft Gaming Zone.

It died when they pulled the plug on the platform, and part of me wishes they’d release it on Steam. But that’s probably the nostalgia talking.

Melobol, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

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.

Ashiette, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It’s… an old game. Maybe it ran on DOS, but it sure was Windows 95 era.

It was a game for kids where you had to spell words. It took place in Africa I believe, because I remember vividly that there were hippos. You had to solve puzzles before spelling words.

I might be misremembering the following : you played as a boy with a loincloth. When you succeeded in solving a puzzle he rowed upstream on a raft. I think I remember a man with a mask, might have been the kid himself.

That’s about everything I remember about this. If someone knows anything…

kindred,

Sounds like Spelling Jungle. I remember that game had the dumbest ending - something about leaving the hose faucet on.

Edit: it was a faucet

Ashiette,

Of that was it, thanks !

Nutteman, do games w PortMaster: Talking Ports, Handhelds, and Community with the Developers (my article!)
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On a foldable, this is rough to work with lol:

PortraitLandscape

PerfectDark,
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Same with my laptop!

My laptop is 3:2 and it looks exactly the same as yours there. Not super readable is it :(

rumschlumpel, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

PapstJL4U, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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I would take a look at Warframe.

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

I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.

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