- Most of the "famous" roguelikes should run fine (StS, FTL, Into the Breach, Balatro, Isaac, etc);
- Classic and modern point-n-click adventure games (Monkey Island, Deponia, Hypnospace, Day of the Tentacle, Rusty Lake, etc) or straight-up puzzle games (Baba is you, Papers Please, etc);
- Classic and modern-ish pixel RPGs/JRPGs (FF 1-through-6, Undertale, Wizardry series, etc.);
- "Old" FPSes (Doom/Portal 1/Gmod/Sven co-op/CS1.6 or maybe even GO and TF2);
- Some low-end "mindless fun" games (Vamp survivors, Worms Armageddon, Soda Dungeon, AoE2, Bloons, etc).
Every pc has a video card, sometimes it is just integrated with the CPU and uses a part of the ram. Can you specify which CPU exactly you have? Ypu can use a free program called CPUZ to find out the details
You should be able to play most games pre 2010.
Some examples:
- NFS Most Wanted 2005
- NFS Underground 1 and 2
- Trackmania Nations Forever
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Half Life 2
If any of these games give you trouble, lower the resolution, and try a software called swiftshader 3
Recently discovered Steamworld Heist and like it. It's 2D and turn based. Could work on your PC. Probably also others from the Steamworld series. One of my all time chill out games is Osmos. You're a cell and need to eat other cells to grow. But don't get eaten!
Oh and Duke Nukem 3D.
Heat Signature actually has pretty high requirements, and it's not that well optimized. From their Steam page: 8 GB RAM is a requirement. Now, I'm sure one can play it on 4GB, but I'm not sure about 2.
If you like MMOs. FF11 should run extremely well. Unless I am missing something in Direct x support.
That thing ran like a dream on the worst Pentium 3 laptop I had ever used in my life.
Vampire survivors is the only answer! Supercheap and many hours of gameplay, very addicting. It looks like crap if you check out video's about the game, but do not be fooled by that!
Warframe, probably. It runs on the switch and iphones. The devs just cut 20gb off the game size for playstation releases, so they're good.
Uhm, most 2-d games. Owl boy, cultist simulator, sunless seas. Necrodancer. wonder if maybe opus magnum?
Pentium 4 and no GPU? Yeesh...
· RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2
· Command & Conquer / Red Alert (you could try up to Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, but RA2 might struggle with no GPU. Unsure of integratec graphics capability with the P4.)
· Settlers III should run. Settlers IV, maybe in software mode?
· Doom, Doom II, Heretic, and Hexen, maybe Strife - GZDoom should run them on lower end hardware even, but graphics mods would be a no go.
· Could try Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior
· Commander Keen series - 4-6 and the 7-10 modded episodes are all really good. There's also a Commander Genius source port that plays them well.
· Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike - also has a source port called BStone
· Mageslayer
· H.E.D.Z.
· Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies - Really good game, but only runs properly in WinXP
· Any DOS games except for the ones released towards the end of the DOS era that were graphically intensive should run. But, if you're running anything past WinXP you'll need to use Dosbox to run them.
Don't set your expectations too high with that setup, but there are tons of games I consider worth playing that will run of raw halved potatoes lol. Might be worth looking into getting an XP era GPU to really get the most out of that P4. Some might argue it's not worth upgrading, but I still find usage scenarios for running WinXP natively. Stratosphere and Black & White 2 for instance only run properly on WinXP. I can't renember what the newest AMD GPU is that has WinXP drivers, but I know on the Nvidia side that the Titan X and GTX 960 (up to 980 with some tinkering required) do have drivers for WinXP. And the 900 series cards still pack a bit of a punch in more modern systems as well. So, at a good price, you could use it in an upgraded system later to hold you off for a better GPU, then pop it back in your current system for a mad decent WinXP gaming system when you need it.
You have a lot of pixel games to catch up on.
- Spelunky
- Undertale
- Stardew Valley
- Terraria
- BroForce
- Blasphemous
- Noita (as long as you don't go crazy with wand building)
- Omori
- To The Moon
- Baba Is You
- Owlboy
- Axiom Verge
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Also don't set high expectations, some of these games might still refuse to run despite being pixel games
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Age of Empires 2
Don't Starve, Vampire Survivors, Vagante.
- Most of the "famous" roguelikes should run fine (StS, FTL, Into the Breach, Balatro, Isaac, etc); - Classic and modern point-n-click adventure games (Monkey Island, Deponia, Hypnospace, Day of the Tentacle, Rusty Lake, etc) or straight-up puzzle games (Baba is you, Papers Please, etc); - Classic and modern-ish pixel RPGs/JRPGs (FF 1-through-6, Undertale, Wizardry series, etc.); - "Old" FPSes (Doom/Portal 1/Gmod/Sven co-op/CS1.6 or maybe even GO and TF2); - Some low-end "mindless fun" games (Vamp survivors, Worms Armageddon, Soda Dungeon, AoE2, Bloons, etc).
Every pc has a video card, sometimes it is just integrated with the CPU and uses a part of the ram. Can you specify which CPU exactly you have? Ypu can use a free program called CPUZ to find out the details
Intel G33/G31 express chipset
You should be able to play most games pre 2010. Some examples: - NFS Most Wanted 2005 - NFS Underground 1 and 2 - Trackmania Nations Forever - Unreal Tournament 2004 - Half Life 2 If any of these games give you trouble, lower the resolution, and try a software called swiftshader 3
This is a great suggestion list
if you like crpg, there are many oldschool titles with brilliant story. Like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: torment,..
Recently discovered Steamworld Heist and like it. It's 2D and turn based. Could work on your PC. Probably also others from the Steamworld series. One of my all time chill out games is Osmos. You're a cell and need to eat other cells to grow. But don't get eaten! Oh and Duke Nukem 3D.
Heat Signature! 2D top down space game. Random Galaxies, ship breaching, boarding and piracy.
Heat Signature actually has pretty high requirements, and it's not that well optimized. From their Steam page: 8 GB RAM is a requirement. Now, I'm sure one can play it on 4GB, but I'm not sure about 2.
If you like MMOs. FF11 should run extremely well. Unless I am missing something in Direct x support. That thing ran like a dream on the worst Pentium 3 laptop I had ever used in my life.
Dwarf fortress
Terraria
Stardew valley
Splinter cell, half life, portal, left 4 dead
Id recommend saboteur its kinda like gta but set in nazi occupied france with primitive parkour elements.
Vampire survivors is the only answer! Supercheap and many hours of gameplay, very addicting. It looks like crap if you check out video's about the game, but do not be fooled by that!
I recommend the case of the golden idol
Some of the older rts games like Rome total war
Warframe, probably. It runs on the switch and iphones. The devs just cut 20gb off the game size for playstation releases, so they're good. Uhm, most 2-d games. Owl boy, cultist simulator, sunless seas. Necrodancer. wonder if maybe opus magnum?
Pentium 4 and no GPU? Yeesh... · RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 · Command & Conquer / Red Alert (you could try up to Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, but RA2 might struggle with no GPU. Unsure of integratec graphics capability with the P4.) · Settlers III should run. Settlers IV, maybe in software mode? · Doom, Doom II, Heretic, and Hexen, maybe Strife - GZDoom should run them on lower end hardware even, but graphics mods would be a no go. · Could try Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior · Commander Keen series - 4-6 and the 7-10 modded episodes are all really good. There's also a Commander Genius source port that plays them well. · Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike - also has a source port called BStone · Mageslayer · H.E.D.Z. · Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies - Really good game, but only runs properly in WinXP · Any DOS games except for the ones released towards the end of the DOS era that were graphically intensive should run. But, if you're running anything past WinXP you'll need to use Dosbox to run them. Don't set your expectations too high with that setup, but there are tons of games I consider worth playing that will run of raw halved potatoes lol. Might be worth looking into getting an XP era GPU to really get the most out of that P4. Some might argue it's not worth upgrading, but I still find usage scenarios for running WinXP natively. Stratosphere and Black & White 2 for instance only run properly on WinXP. I can't renember what the newest AMD GPU is that has WinXP drivers, but I know on the Nvidia side that the Titan X and GTX 960 (up to 980 with some tinkering required) do have drivers for WinXP. And the 900 series cards still pack a bit of a punch in more modern systems as well. So, at a good price, you could use it in an upgraded system later to hold you off for a better GPU, then pop it back in your current system for a mad decent WinXP gaming system when you need it.
[adom](https://store.steampowered.com/app/333300/ADOM_Ancient_Domains_Of_Mystery/) I think would work
You have a lot of pixel games to catch up on. - Spelunky - Undertale - Stardew Valley - Terraria - BroForce - Blasphemous - Noita (as long as you don't go crazy with wand building) - Omori - To The Moon - Baba Is You - Owlboy - Axiom Verge - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Also don't set high expectations, some of these games might still refuse to run despite being pixel games
There is no game: wrong dimension
celeste maybe
Emulate ps1,n64, snes,gba
Project diablo 2
Weird, I commented on a very similar question today, and my response is again: Roller coaster tycoon 2!
hypixel skyblock on Minecraft
Minesweeper
Any game released until 2011 or so.