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

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

Shattered pixel dungeon!

Kory, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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Maybe give www.luanti.org/en/ a shot.

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

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

SethTaylor, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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There was this game I swear was called Solaris but was not able to find. The whole thing is a model of a star system with a couple dozens of oddly-named planets and you need to “shoot units” at the planets you want to conquer. You basically have to estimate how many units you need to take it over or something.

I’ll probably never be able to find it cause I can’t even describe it so well haha

Daefsdeda,

Do you perhaps mean solarmax (1/2)?

burntbacon,

That’s what sprang to mind for me as well. There’s another version somewhere with viruses/bacteria where you’re in a petri dish and can find/modify your dna for better traits in certain multiplying/attack/defending strengths.

prole,

Probably not Stellaris right?

KittyCat,

Almost sounds like eufloria

Ashiette,

apocalypsis.org ?

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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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 :)

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

For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.

AmbitiousProcess,

Is it Focal Golf?

Would look something like this, but… green, of course.

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You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.

There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.

YurkshireLad,

Awesome thanks. I don’t think it’s Focal. It was a computer my friend’s dad brought home from work and I don’t think it was on tape.

Catoblepas,

There’s a non-zero chance it was a game someone he worked with just made. My dad used to work with a guy that would program playable text based games during his down time (this was in the 90s), he ultimately went on to work at an actual game company from what I remember.

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.

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

Croc 2! I love him so much.

umbrella,
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croc was so whimsical and fun

Soggy,

I prefer the first one but I love the little WAPOW boy either way.

Ashiette,

Both of these games were awesome. I used to play the first one from the beginning every week with my childhood best friend because either we didn’t have a memory card or the game did not accept saves.

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