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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I mean, if you install Steam, you’re not that limited in terms of ports, are you? Just about any game being solidified for the Steam Deck to run through Proton will also have the same effect on other Linux distros.
Of course, if it’s a low-end laptop, you’d aim for relatively simple, 2D or old games, but they don’t explicitly have to be ported to Linux.
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.
Love factorio, I just started a game this weekend with space exploration and LTN. DRG is also a fantastic game. Rock and Stone!
Deus Ex is a great one (and you can even play the Randomizer mod in Linux)
Slay the Spire is pretty cool.
Man, I sure hope we got something from r/slaythespire here :(
Set it up and I’ll sub.
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.
Do you like ARPGs? Titan Quest is a Greek mythology themed Diablo II clone that has some nice improvements over D2. It’s usually pretty cheap on Steam.
I would also strongly recommend Grim Dawn, one of the best games of the genre which is based on Titan Quest’s engine. Base game is often on sale, but I recommend both expansions as they are full of content.
Factorio works well (at a smaller scale).
Vampire Survivors. It’s dopamine in digital form.
Baba Is You, Into The Breach, Ultima VII (with Exult)
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.Neither RPGs nor choose your own adventure games, but I’ll leave Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Cuphead here anyway
I will second Cuphead. Fair warning: it’s really difficult in that old-school sidescroller way in that you will lose many lives and you will have to try the levels again many times. But it is far and away one of my favorite games ever because the developers hand-animated it in 1920s rubber hose style — I’m talking frame by frame, by cell. They have a great art book too if you really take to it like I did. 😅 ! Book.
Chrono trigger for SNES, ff 7,8,9 for psx. If you can run citra bravy default. Final fantasy 3 for PSP, ff tactics for GBA.
the EV games combine asteroids style flight with choose your own adventure text walls. I recommend Nova. You’ll need to run it in WINE.
How well do these run in wine now? When I last tried (a good few years ago), I remember bugs that stopped me doing a full play through, although I don’t remember what they were. I’ll give it another shot if things are better now.
On the back of the EV recommendation, I’d add Endless Sky. Very heavily inspired by the EV line, although the feel of combat is a little different. Open source and under development, and should run on most hardware.
Also Naev, if you’re in to EV and Endless Sky.
Maybe a game like terraria? It’s a native linux game and hella fun!
Or if you want a more chill game maybe something like Gris? It has a gold rating on ProtonDB so should work fine. Gives u the feels too which is a bonus.
Suikoden I and II are great PSX RPGs, if you can emulate. Shadowrun (Returns, Dragonfall and Hong Kong) are great and Linux native.
Suikoden I and II are required playing for jrpg fans!
But emulation as a suggestion alone is good. You have access to so much of a field of human creativity if you’re okay copying the bits to your drive.
Edit: I feel obligated to say that I also like the other suikoden games. My rank is
II
V
I
III
IV
But I still enjoyed IV.
