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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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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All Steam Deck verified games should play just fine on that laptop. While Intel Xe graphics are not the greatest, Steam Deck is restricted to 15W and you laptop is not.

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[–] bigoofn@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldnt limit yourself to native linux. Check out protondb.com. You can even use non-steam games through steam for use with proton (or if you're feeling more technical you could use other tools that are more hands on).

[–] mjohanning@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Absolutely! Currently running Diablo 4 on the SteamDeck using Proton Experimental. Runs perfectly on medium-high settings at 45-50 fps. It's insane how far we've come. When I first started using Linux over ten years ago, running Windows games was nigh-impossible. And Valve finally released their Steam client for Linux, the selection of games was ... very limited.

[–] Witch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's part of the reason why I didn't re-install Linux until recently. I would install it every few years, but it was only recently that I decided to keep it.

I didn't quite know about ProtonDB and what it could do, but I did know that a lot more games are compatible lately so I thought I'd try it out. Linux is doing great it seems!

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[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] aski3252@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Slay the Spire is pretty cool.

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[–] indicah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Factorio works well (at a smaller scale).

[–] eleanorOpossum@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Stardew Valley is really lightweight and Linux native.

Since you mentioned battery being an issue and that you just switched to Linux, have you looked into using TLP or Powertop to try doing some tweaks to squeeze out a bit more? It's been years since I've used Linux on a laptop, but that's what I used.

[–] scribblemacher@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I played Stardew Valley on Switch, but I cannot recommend it enough. One of the best games I've every played.

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[–] Soccera@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Hey, DOSBox is available on Linux! There are some hidden gems from the DOS era.

[–] zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Might be a bit off topic here. I really suggest to have a check at https://www.protondb.com/

Many Win-only steam games are performing great on Linux now.

Besides, I've played https://vita3k.org/ for a while. There are countless decent old games which can be played via emulators on linux

[–] mister155@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Small list from me: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Caves of Qud, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, ADOM, Reigns, SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition, King's Quest, Liberal Crime Squad. The old Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall are also currently available for free. I see Daggerfall is playable with DosBox/Lutris, I assume Arena is as well.

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[–] donio@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what I have from Steam on my Linux laptop, similar HW, a bit older:
Baba Is You, The Binding of Isaac, Celeste, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Darkest Dungeon, Dicey Dungeons, Enter the Gungeon, FTL, Hollow Knight, Into the Breach, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Monster Train, Opus Magnum, Slay the Spire, Spelunky.
And traditional roguelikes are always good: Crawl, Brogue, Nethack.

[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Veloren is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!

You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.

The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.

It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!

See https://veloren.net/

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[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not related to your stated interests, but Minecraft will work better on Linux than Windows due to Java optimizations.

itch.io client works well on Linux from my tests, but I have no specific recommendations for you because it has been some time.

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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Battle for Wesnoth is one of those oldies but goldies when it comes to Linux gaming.
I'd also heartily recommend trying out OpenMW (not just because I'm part of the team there) as a modern way to play Morrowind, though the upcoming release is not entirely finished, there are a few blockers being hammered away at still.

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[–] Mancada@lemmy.pt 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Suikoden I and II are great PSX RPGs, if you can emulate. Shadowrun (Returns, Dragonfall and Hong Kong) are great and Linux native.

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[–] Fabrik872@apollo.town 5 points 1 year ago

Try Factorio great automation simulator but this game shoul come with a warning it is practicly a full time job or if you want something to play for hour daily i love Deep Rock Galactic. Both games are quite easy to run and doesnt take much disk space especially DRG have like 5GB i dont know how.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rimworld is pretty resource light and runs native on Linux. Has the benefit of being one o of the greatest games ever, too. If you're into to that kind of game (colony resource management and light war crimes)

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[–] wubawuba11@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

RimWorld is great and runs on my toaster

[–] TenNinetythree@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd suggest to check IFDB for the text adventures.

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[–] GreenCrush@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Deus Ex, the first game. Easy to run, a lot of rpg elements. Half-life 1 and 2 are obvious choices and I think have Linux ports. Emulation is definitely a good route to go as well. A lot of good RPGs on consoles that are easy to emulate.

[–] Rega@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Earthbound would keep you busy for quite a while

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[–] Cognomen@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Vampire Survivors. It's dopamine in digital form.

[–] jay2@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not exactly text based, but the old sierra style games are still a blast to play. Leisure Suit Larry, Maniac Mansion, Thimbleweed Park. They sure don't need many resources to play.

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[–] SirSauceLordtheThird@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you want an old classic, I've been playing rollercoaster tycoon 2 recently and there is an open source engine for it (openrct2) that has native linux compatibility. The controls take some getting used to, But I think that artstyle looks totally amazing.

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[–] Kamelo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's free and open source available as a download or in browser here. Not sure if your familiar with traditional roguelikes, but it's basically a permadeath turn based rpg. I finally picked it back up recently and have been addicted. Finally got my first won today after some 300 games.

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[–] Relected@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

hotline Miami, katana zero, osu.

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[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

With the blackout, I see the Gaming community will be assimilated into the LinuxGaming community and I'm here for it.

[–] bigmanjezza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Into the breach is a pretty underrated game to try out

[–] lhx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And FTL. Amazing games. Slay the Spire also great.

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[–] fortified_banana@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen OpenMW mentioned (and it's fantastic), but you might want to check out Daggerfall Unity as well. The game's available at no cost, and you can find a zip of the necessary game files on the install guide in the dfworkshop forums.

It's way better than the old DOS version, and it supports mods, too.

[–] Witch@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Alright so I was a little confused on OpenMW but it appears that it is, in fact, complete enough to play? Nice. I now finally have an excuse to play.

I completely forgot about Daggerfall existing. I'm just reading through the wikipedia article. "Daggerfall consists of 15,000 cities, towns, villages, and dungeons for the character to explore." I am intimidated, yet intrigued.

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[–] 2deck@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same boat! Here are some i picked up;

  • Planescape Torment - rpg & adventure,
  • Darklands - old skool rpg & adventure,
  • Spiritfarer - simulation & adventure,
  • Papers Please - simulation & puzzle,
  • The Captain - rpg & simulation,
  • Shadowrun - rpg & strategy,
  • Baldurs Gate II - rpg & strategy,
  • Don't Starve - action & adventure,
  • Rimworld - simulation & strategy,
  • FTL - strategy & simulation

Edit; formatting

[–] Mambert@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

The stalker series has some of the best gunplay of any low-end system game I've seen.

[–] namesare4squares@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] SindriDeLaMancha@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

https://r-roms.github.io/megathread/sony/ I found this absolute treasure trove of roms if you want. well I was waiting for my main gaming pc to be shipped I pretty much lived off old ps2 games like ratchet and clank 2

[–] IcedCoffeeBitch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Omori, if you are into Motherlike games. More story based if that's your thing

[–] AceLucario@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

VA-11 HALL-A (not sure if I wrote that right) is a nice little cyberpunk visual novel that can run on a toaster and has a native linux version. It sort of falls in line with the choose your own adventure you mentioned because you can make some choices that affect certain things, but mostly, the game is about mixing drinks and changing lives.

The Shadowrun games from Harebrained Schemes are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and they all have native Linux versions. Daggerfall's my favourite, but all three are good.

[–] korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minecraft is often a good time and can run well on low end machines.

Text based and RPGs you say? Maybe it's time to explore some MUDs?

For the King is also a nice chill game with a great system reqs:fun ratio. Currently on sale too.

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[–] jorgesumle@lemmy.pt 3 points 1 year ago

Here you can find a bunch free software RPGs: https://libregamewiki.org/Role-playing_games

Also you can install MAME and download like 5000 arcade games from the 70, 80, 90, 2000.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Garry's Mod, Super Tux Kart

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that you can run TES 4 Oblivion decently well on Linux with a Windows emulator (WINE). I had a few odd graphics glitches like a gigantic texture of a tree just completely taking over the sky. I guess it wanted to be some kind of Yggdrasil tree or something.

It ran well though, and on a early 2010-era laptop. I don't know about mod compatibility though.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WINE Is Not an Emulator 😉

Seriously, that's what the acronym means, because it's not an emulator, it's a compatibility layer.

There's also Proton for Steam games, or even non-steam games, though it's a little more complicated to set up in the later case.

Oblivion's excellent with mods, though I'm unfamiliar with modding Bethesda games on Linux.

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