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Any recommendations for low-end, Linux-friendly games to play? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Witch@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It's a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I'm looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!

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[–] Auster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A Vampyre Story worked nice on Wine on an old computer with Mint Xfce when I played it last year. Only had to set Wine as windowed full screen, since the game got issues when alt-tabbing. Also worth noting it requires DirectX on Windows, so you'll have to use DXVK.

Haven't seen any PICO-8 games lag on Linux, and both Celeste Classic games were released on PICO-8.

Dust: An Elysian Tail might be playable, bar maybe two areas (one mandatory) that have a lot going on.

Slay the Spire should run fine, but I had to sideload an older version of OpenJDK to get it working (maybe 8 or 11; don't remember which exactly).

Songs for A Hero also seems to run fine.

Tanglewood is a Mega Drive homebrew, so should be playable on any emulators your PC can run.

Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action also runs fine.

Böbl and Nix: The Paradox Relic should both run fine on NES emulators.