It took ages to decide whether Factorio or Darkest Dungeon should get the number one slot. So not only does Darkest Dungeon run well on my travel laptop, it runs better. Ironically, thanks to a quirk of Early Access, Darkest Dungeon refuses to run on my primary laptop, causing it to crash and reboot after just a few minutes of play. You are worried about the veteran developing even more psychological problems and getting everyone killed. You often have to try and weigh the costs/benefits of bringing someone who is strong but stressed along on a mission versus someone who is a less experienced but calm and relaxed. The narrator has a better voice than Him From Bastion. Still in early access, and still receiving hefty content updates, Darkest Dungeon is quite possibly not only one of the best games to run on an underpowered machine, but one of the best games ever. Simple, low-paced, low-fidelity, I don’t think the hamster-powered CPU even has to break a sweat. It’s a cruel, unforgiving charm, but to many it’s heavily addictive. Unfair… To others, this unfairness is what gives FTL its charm and replayability. To some there is too much randomness, the idea that even the best player can die in the first sector is anathema. This unpredictability is what divides people on FT. The important thing to note though is that I’m still going back and getting to the end boss to be infuriated by it. It’s undeniably a wonderful game, but even now the end boss infuriates me. I have a love/hate relationship with FTL. It plays flawlessly on my little laptop slow to load but once it’s there it’s indistinguishable from running it on my Obsidian Totem Of Power. I can’t bring to mind a single game that plays so smoothly and with such beguiling rhythm. Hours – and thousands of corpses – later I stand by that description. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game where your skill acquisition is so perfectly smooth that you barely notice until you go back to the early levels and cackle madly as you effortlessly slaughter hundreds and hundreds of stick-men using just one finger.Īfter playing it for all of five minutes I took to Twitter to proclaim the game a “masterclass of kinaesthetics”. Nothing that stopped me playing through all three games without coming up for air though. Hexcells is as undemanding of power as you’d expect – the only issue is that it doesn’t scale perfectly at low resolutions so you occasionally find bits floating off the edge of the screen. Those are special moments that only very few puzzle games manage. It quickly reaches those magnificent moments where you’re working out new rules on the fly, realising that if you apply previously acquired understandings you can make logical leaps and eliminate or highlight in a brand new way. I’ll leave it to RPS to describe how absorbing this game is and why it’s one of the best puzzle games on the market:
#HEXCELLS ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN PLUS#
See also Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite for how it manages to absorb so much time.
No, every game on this list has sunk at least a dozen hours of my life and kept me going back over and over. One thing to note before we get to the games themselves: this isn’t just a list of games that run on old machines – there are thousands of those. The processor though, isn’t bad, and it’s capable of fairly pacey 2D graphics. The restrictions on my laptop are many – limited disc space, little RAM, woeful 3D graphics and tablet-sized screen. So to save you the trouble, here’s five games for the laptop of yesterday.
This severely restricts the games available for me, so whenever I find something that it will run AND will absorb my time, it’s a good day. However, while I have a decent computer at each end of the journey, the laptop I actually travel with is, to put it charitably, horsepower-challenged. That’s a lot of time on a train, time that is ideally spent gaming.
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