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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A Vampyre Story worked nice on Wine on an old computer with Mint Xfce when I played it last year. Only had to set Wine as windowed full screen, since the game got issues when alt-tabbing. Also worth noting it requires DirectX on Windows, so you'll have to use DXVK.

Haven't seen any PICO-8 games lag on Linux, and both Celeste Classic games were released on PICO-8.

Dust: An Elysian Tail might be playable, bar maybe two areas (one mandatory) that have a lot going on.

Slay the Spire should run fine, but I had to sideload an older version of OpenJDK to get it working (maybe 8 or 11; don't remember which exactly).

Songs for A Hero also seems to run fine.

Tanglewood is a Mega Drive homebrew, so should be playable on any emulators your PC can run.

Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action also runs fine.

Böbl and Nix: The Paradox Relic should both run fine on NES emulators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Starsector. Sseth has a really good review of the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nuclear Throne. It's a fun Roguelike dungeon crawler. A run from beginning to "end" (last level before looping) can take 15min and I've spent 100s of hours playing over the years.There' are so many characters you can choose to play, each with its own unique special ability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cave Story is good / hectic / hard platformer. I might be wrong but I think it was made for Linux first

Also, if you install RetroArch, you can play all the emulated systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Bloons TD6 is pretty fun and light.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Dark Souls Remastered should run just fine, one of the greatest games ever. Also make sure you play it with a controller!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Most indie games that are deck verified should work just fine. I'm playing DREDGE on my deck at the moment - absolutely recommend this one and the battery life is phenomenal. Apart from that Factorio or FTL will keep you busy for days (and nights...)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Neither RPGs nor choose your own adventure games, but I'll leave Celeste, Hollow Knight, and Cuphead here anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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. Page.

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