Looking for well-rated 3D games for old laptop

Things like Skyrim and Fallout 3/New Vegas might run decently on this

I suggest Deus Ex: Human Revolution, good gameplay and epic story, you can buy it for about 3€/$ when on sale. My first playthrough took me about 40 hours and I enjoyed every single second of it.

Why are ratings from such websites important to you? Those ratings are mostly crap and lies since publishers pay those to give good ratings.

Try and search on Steam for some good games. You could easily play some great games from the old times; back when gaming wasn't as bad as it is now. I.e. Duke Nukem 3D, DOOM, Quake, P.O.D., Need for Speed 2+3, Road Rash, you name it.

Fallout 3
Borderlands 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Fable: Lost Chapters

To name a few, just the Fallout games should give you around 900 hours of playtime after modding additional content.
PS: Don't use the ratings from IGN/Gamespot etc. They aren't relevant anymore, people exploit the voting systems all the time for their own benefit.

If you set reasonable video quality settings and change resolution to 720p, also Tomb Raider (2013) should works absolutely fine on your laptop.

Some RTS Recommendations:
Age Of Empires 3
Men of war assault squad 2
Company of heroes
Dawn of war 2

I must say that your "old" laptop is pretty good!

Some games that I played in my old laptop:

• Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• The Wolf Among Us
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
• Rocket League
• Serious Sam 3
• Bastion
• Transistor
• The Return of the Obra Dinn (By far the best game that I played last year, runs on a potato, but it's not for everyone)
• Ziggurat
• Grim Dawn

That's a pretty good laptop, can you please give me the model name?
You should be able to run Alan Wake and Batman Arkham games with no problems.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas runs smooth for sure on this spec of machine and has like an unlimited time to play if you don't just rush the quests.

For adventure games, I love the point and click puzzle games. Deponia and Edna and Harvey are really cool games. loads of fun and takes you time to figure out so it's not done in 2 hours. There are more good adventure games.
Also "The Cave" is a really cool platform like puzzle game.

Wut? "Old" laptop?

You got pretty alright machine. Just don't play big new AAA titles and/or poorly optimised games (easily findable from steam reviews), and you'll be fine. Also you could try something like https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

That's a pretty good laptop. I only have an i3 :c. Try gmod.

Rise of Nations
The Binding of Isaac
Life is Strange
Alan Wake
Darksiders
Just Cause 2
Valve & Telltale´s Games

I recommend Resident Evil 4, it's a good game which can be played again and again without getting boring.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown for strategy. It runs great even on non-dedicated GPUs.

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition for Action/RPG. It's older, but still just as fun as when it came out (and currently on sale for less than a buck!)

In doubt you can always check
Can You Run It

The diagnostic of the computer lasts a minute and then you can check games against your computer specs. It's usually pretty accurate and includes VRAM requirements which can be a deal breaker for some action games.