Game recommendaion for toasters

[DemonicAngel]

Hello everyone!
I have recently re located away form my PC, and now only have my office ultrabook to play games on between my working hours. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestion for fun games i can play on a zenbook ux330ua, which has a i5-7200U 2.5 GHz Processor, 8GB DDR3 RAM and Intel HD Graphics 620 Integrated card.
any game recommendations would be fun. I enjoy lots of indie games (darkest dungeon, Heat Signature, Hotline miami) and would love to learn of more

[Silfir]

You could give Thea: The Awakening a whirl. It should scratch an itch similar to Darkest Dungeon.

Crypt of the Necrodancer and FTL should also run fine on an iGPU. Renowned Explorers, too.

[DemonicAngel]

Thea Looks awesome, but it needs atleast 512 MB of video RAM, which i don't have...

already playing FTL and Necrodancer, but those are great!

[Flickerdart]

Hello everyone!
I have recently re located away form my PC, and now only have my office ultrabook to play games on between my working hours. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestion for fun games i can play on a zenbook ux330ua, which has a i5-7200U 2.5 GHz Processor, 8GB DDR3 RAM and Intel HD Graphics 620 Integrated card.
any game recommendations would be fun. I enjoy lots of indie games (darkest dungeon, Heat Signature, Hotline miami) and would love to learn of more

You call that a toaster? Most days, the best I have is a Surface Pro 3 (i5-4300U, 4GB RAM, Intel HD 4400 graphics). Civ V actually runs great, though you'll want to play on Medium or smaller maps. HoI4 actually runs (slowly), as does Vic 2; CK2 and EU4 run well but the UI scaling is messed up. You will probably have this issue as well. As long as you stick to CPU-heavy games with turn order or pausing, where ~20 FPS isn't too bad, you should have no problems.

[Corlindale]

Tales of Maj'Eyal is an amazing roguelike that should run on almost anything. Takes a little while to get really into it, but once it clicks you will have hours upon hours of entertainment. The variety of interesting classes is a particular highlight.

It's also completely free.

[Brookshw]

I want to suggest cuphead but I'm not sure that can handle it's graphics (minimum though they are).

[Lector87]

Recent 2D indie games I've enjoyed are Owlboy and Salt and Sanctuary - you'll have to doublecheck their graphics requirements. They also both work best with controllers, don't know if you've got a one for PC.

[Silfir]

Thea Looks awesome, but it needs atleast 512 MB of video RAM, which i don't have...

already playing FTL and Necrodancer, but those are great!

You're misunderstanding something: The HD 520 integrated graphics chip, like pretty much all iGPUs, doesn't have any dedicated VRAM - but they're designed to share your RAM with the regular CPU. I'd expect it to be able to use at least 2 GB as VRAM, which is enough to fulfill pretty much any system requirements out there.

You might get in trouble if your laptop had only as little as 4 GB RAM total, but you wisely didn't opt for a toaster quite as bad as that. You might be surprised at what it *can* run. At any rate, VRAM limitations are not going to be the problem. The general slowness of the HD 520 chip might be. Pay attention to games that ask for specifically named dedicated graphics cards as part of their minimum requirements - like "GTX 650 or better" or something. If a game lists stuff like "DirectX 10 compatible" or "Shader 2.0 capable" as minimum, chances are you can run it just fine.

I'm actually successfully running Thea on a notebook with the exact same specs. If you put details and resolutions to low settings it runs very well indeed.

[Razade]

I am Bread.

How has anyone not done this yet?

[DemonicAngel]

You're misunderstanding something: The HD 520 integrated graphics chip, like pretty much all iGPUs, doesn't have any dedicated VRAM - but they're designed to share your RAM with the regular CPU. I'd expect it to be able to use at least 2 GB as VRAM, which is enough to fulfill pretty much any system requirements out there.

You might get in trouble if your laptop had only as little as 4 GB RAM total, but you wisely didn't opt for a toaster quite as bad as that. You might be surprised at what it *can* run. At any rate, VRAM limitations are not going to be the problem. The general slowness of the HD 520 chip might be. Pay attention to games that ask for specifically named dedicated graphics cards as part of their minimum requirements - like "GTX 650 or better" or something. If a game lists stuff like "DirectX 10 compatible" or "Shader 2.0 capable" as minimum, chances are you can run it just fine.

I'm actually successfully running Thea on a notebook with the exact same specs. If you put details and resolutions to low settings it runs very well indeed.

See, I knew coming to the forum would turn out for the better. I will check it out, then.
Thank you very much for the help!

[Winthur]

between my working hours.

Doom the Roguelike is a fun game to play as a "coffee break" roguelike. Shorter than most games in its genre and with a scalable difficulty so that even new players don't have to practice for years to get their first victory. It's fun and fast-paced.

[Mike Miller]

Wesnoth is a wonderful turn based strategy game that is lightweight.

[Olinser]

I Am Bread

http://store.steampowered.com/app/327890/I_am_Bread/

Your LITERAL GOAL in this game is to move a piece of bread to become toast.

[Razade]

I am Bread.

How has anyone not done this yet?

I Am Bread

http://store.steampowered.com/app/327890/I_am_Bread/

Your LITERAL GOAL in this game is to move a piece of bread to become toast.

Beat ya to it.

[Cespenar]

You can theoretically go full indie into eternity without ever needing to upgrade. I was pretty much doing that with my earlier i3 potato, no problem.

Also, if you're willing to play some stuff on low and around 25-30 fps, that opens up a lot of doors as well.

[Spore]

Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
Super Meat Boy
Ori and the Blind Forest
Limbo
Inside

[Triaxx]

Embrace the old school, Baldur's Gate's Enhanced Edition should run perfectly fine, as should Icewind Dale's. Go for a wander through some of the older games on GoG. I remember gaming when your toaster was the equivalent of the Enterprise's computer.

[Olinser]

Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
Super Meat Boy
Ori and the Blind Forest
Limbo
Inside

For justice! For SHOVEL JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flickerdart]

Embrace the old school, Baldur's Gate's Enhanced Edition should run perfectly fine, as should Icewind Dale's. Go for a wander through some of the older games on GoG. I remember gaming when your toaster was the equivalent of the Enterprise's computer.

These may have issues on the high pixel density display of the toaster in question.

[Triaxx]

Nah, the Enhanced Editions have native widescreen support.

[DemonicAngel]

I may have downplayed my PC capabilities with that toaster remark, but great suggestions all around!
playing around hand of fate and Child of Light (despite the horrible DRM). maybe i'll get Ori's definitive edition at some point.

Edit: Besides, I've been gaming this past few years on a computer with a Pentium. the fact I was able to mod and play Skyrim with any stability is still a type of miracle as far as i'm concerned.

[Bohandas]

Dungeons of Dredmor (a humorous Roguelike) is pretty light on the system but has platform-independent stability issues.

Vertical Drop Heroes (a sidescroller/topscroller hybrid) is good too

Dwarf Fortress (a roguelike/RPG/basebuilder combo) is pretty platform independent in that it will start to lag a few hours into basebuildermode regardless of whether you;re playing it on a low-end laptop, a midrange desktop, or a Cray supercomputer

Master of Magic and Master of Orion 2 (4x strategy) are classics. Just stay away from Master of Orion 3 and Master of Orion 4

[Triaxx]

There are some tricks to improving how DF runs, but yeah, it's hard on most computers.

[rooster707]

Indie stuff? Hmm. I really like Klei Entertainment; Mark of the Ninja and Invisible, Inc are excellent. Don’t Starve is supposed to be pretty good too.

[Wookieetank]

Lets see, interesting indie games not yet listed:
~Anti-Chamber (Portal with non-Euclidean geometry)
~Oxen-Free (Solid Point 'n Click adventure with nice visuals and a multilayered plot)
~Kentucky Route 0 (Super atmospheric, contemplation inducing Point 'n Click adventure)
~Anodyne (Nostalgic adventure game with cheerful visuals and a couple of nifty mechanics)
~Fez (Platform/puzzler/collection game)
~The Dream Machine (Point & Click adventure using visuals that were handmade IRL. You can just see the effort they put into this game)
~Uncanny Valley (Genuinely creepy point & click adventure)