Spec me some lowish spec games

manic111 · 2 Jul 2010 at 18:32

I'm off to India for a few months with work, and will only have a laptop with me. Unfortunately it will be a company laptop, and therefore I imagine fairly low spec. Hopefully I'll be able to get a Core 2 processor and at least 2GB of RAM, but I can't see the GPU being anything better than an Intel integrated lark. With the Steam sale being on, now seems to be the time to pick up a few games to tide me over.

I assume that Civ 4 will work on those specs? Can you suggest me some other games? Any genre aside from racing...

Cheers

Ever · 2 Jul 2010 at 18:56

Warcraft III + expansion
Deus Ex
Open TTD
Baldurs Gate 1/2
Grim Fandango
Dungeon Keeper
Fallout 1/2

All aging a bit now, but still good fun and should run fine on a lower spec machine

subbass · 2 Jul 2010 at 18:58

Sam and Max

Kazz · 2 Jul 2010 at 19:04

Off the top of my head I would recommend...

Recent games:
World of Goo
Plants vs Zombies
Ben There, Dan That (free!) / Time Gentlemen Please!

Golden Oldies that will run on anything:
Good Old Games, loads of classics there.
X-Com series
Fallout 1&2

madindehead · 2 Jul 2010 at 19:22

Diablo II
StarCraft

manbearpig · 2 Jul 2010 at 19:23

Dungeon Siege, if you like role-playing games

j.col · 6 Jul 2010 at 22:06

rome total war should run on a laptop
or age of empires

Rhys-M · 6 Jul 2010 at 22:19

Fallout 1 or 2
Deus Ex
Plants vs Zombies
World Of Goo
XCOM (First and Second)

All these you can get on steam

Civ 4 might struggle with integrated GPU, but is worth a try

doiks14 · 6 Jul 2010 at 22:59

Penumbra

Heres a vid of one its sequel's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHBlDCvhkg

TurbotH · 6 Jul 2010 at 23:05

Minesweeper

bJN · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:06

Solitaire
Baldur's Gate
Diablo
Half-Life
Doom
Quake
Worms
The Sims
SimCity
etc etc

C64 · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:14

Defence Grid The awakening, fantastic little gem, braid and trine too and torchlight.

LeJosh · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:19

Torchlight, plants vs zombies, braid, trine, world of goo, Total annihilation (freeware version available) C&C series, half life 1!

Nate--IRL-- · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:29

Armadillo Run!

Nate

Sasso · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:57

^^^^ haha wow! loved the bit with the space ship xD

modo77 · 7 Jul 2010 at 02:06

Football Manager is all you need.

Jezcentral · 7 Jul 2010 at 09:59

Get yourself to gog.com! (No DRM, too).

Also, XCOM (not related

).

antijoke · 7 Jul 2010 at 10:00

Monkey Island 1&2 Special Editions?

wordy · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:23

NeverWinter Nights, plus expansion packs. If you've got internet connection there's tons of fan made content to keep you busy.

Calneon · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:31

Low spec games don't have to be old ones.

Try out these...

Osmos
World Of Goo
Beat Hazard (if you have lots of music)
Plants vs Zombies
Shatter
Trine
Braid
Torchlight
Armadillo Run
Defense Grid
Defcon
Trackmania

Just looked up and most are already mentioned, oh well xD.