Game rec please!

[Delightful]

Hi!

I'm looking for games that I can play on my laptop thats not like.....miniclip. I have no consoles and no special graphics chips or anything. Also no mouse, just a trackpad. Oh and also very little money to spend on games. What would you suggest?

Please and thank you!

[Mestiv he/him]

What are you into? Strategy games? RPG? I'd really recommend checking out some older titles. Their hardware requirements are silly by today standards, but the stories and the gameplay are superb.

You can buy a lot of older games on gog.com - a store dedicated to make older titles runnable on new computers. My personal favorite: https://www.gog.com/game/majesty_gold_hd - a strategy game where you cannot control your troops. Only put bounties on monsters etc. I did spend over 100 hours on it when I was younger.

[Quantus he/him]

Like @Mestiv said, what sort of games are you in to, both from a genre and a graphics/vintage standpoint? 

 

I personally have recently fallen into a Minecraft hole for the first time in a couple years, they've added a lot of cool functionality since I last played and that game is gloriously scalable to just about any hardware. If you've never played the survival genre though, be warned you die a lot in the beginning.  Try not to get too frustrated, it's just part of how those games pace themselves. 

 

Last year I set up a RaspberryPi emulator for my nieces that had (and Im not exaggerating here) every game made for an Atari, Nintendo, or Sega system prior to the PS/N64 era (Atari in particular was ridiculously prolific in the 80's, and I had to find and delete all these weird swedish porn titles...).  But my point is that the ROMs and emulators for those older and mostly defunct games/systems are freely available and will not challenge a laptop, they'd barley challenge the modern electric toothbrush. 

As a general statement your laptop will probably do fine with 90% of games that are older than it is itself, to at least middle graphic settings. The rest is budget and preference.

 

[+Ark1002]

I would recommend Subnautica, but you said you don't have a mouse, so...

If you ever get a mouse, I recommend Subnautica.

[Zelly]

Get on Steam, browse the free to play section? Can't beat free 

Sorry that's not more helpful.  I was looking through my library for ideas, but honestly can't say "oh yeah 100% this game didn't require a mouse", though I'm sure there's some.

Edited November 9, 2018 by Zellyia

[WeebTrash he/him]

I would recommend OSU.  

[Storming Radiant he/him]

I'm currently playing Celeste. It's an indie platformer and it's amazing. I'm playing it on my Switch, so I don't know the PC control scheme, but hopefully, it doesn't use the the mouse...

[Dunkum he/him]

I absolutely love the Civilization series.  you migth be able to get the previous version (civ vi is out now, so thprior verison is civ v) in a bundle with its expansions for pretty cheap.  especially if you wait for the steam sale.  my experience has been that it can be hard to run the newest on an older machine, but runnign the older on a newer machine should work ok.  or the newer on a newer machine, though you'd want to chekc the minimum requirements...and see about some kind of external cooling mechanism, sicne Civ games run long.

[Niteshado he/him]

Runescape!!

Free, should entertain for a while.

[cassiegoh]

Minecraft, The Sims, Stardew Valley.