It's funny, but here in Argentina is more common to call a lower end machine: BATATA (sweet potato)

For various reasons, now I'm gaming on my small notebook. With the HDMI cable connected to the TV and a controller it's not so bad. It's good for couch co-op with a friend too.

But has very low specs, and I need recommendations for modern games (post 2012) that runs on low end machines.

So far I've played (mostly indie and retro style games):

SHOVEL KNIGHT
DESKTOP DUNGEONS
ZIGGURAT
ROCKET LEAGUE
BROFORCE
FREEDOM PLANET
STEAMWORLD DIG
DOWNWELL
OUTLAND
RETRO CITY RAMPAGE DX
RISK OF RAIN
SUNLESS SEA
PIX the CAT
ROGUE LEGACY
THE WALKING DEAD - A Telltale Series
TOWERFALL ASCENSION

Added:

SPELUNKY
ONE PIECE PIRATE WARRIORS 3 (I can't believe it. Works great)
SERIOUS SAM 3 (minimum)
THE WOLF AMONG US
STARDEW VALLEY
NIDHOGG
A BOY AND HIS BLOB
POKER NIGHT 2
BASTION

Any others that I can try?

Thanks for reading!

SPECS

Toshiba Satellite CL15-B1204X 11.6-Inch Laptop
-Intel Celeron N2840 “Bay Trail” Dual-Core 2.16-2.58GHz 1MB Cache (~1,100 PassMark benchmark points)
-Intel HD Integrated Graphics
-RAM 2GB

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Small thank you all Gib HERE
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Do you have a potatoe machine?

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Papa

The Binding of Isaac.
Doorkickers
Town Of Salem
Plague Inc Evolved
Sheltered
Big Pharma (???)
12 Labors of Hercules (there's 4 them)

8 years ago
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Switchcars
Civilization V

8 years ago
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crypt of the necrodancer runs well on my potato

8 years ago
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Try GRID 2 Demo on steam.

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  1. Max Payne Series

  2. Battleblock Theater

  3. Coffin Dodger

  4. Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition (?)

  5. Metal Slug Series

  6. Tomb Raider Series ( Except Rise of Tomb Rider )

  7. Call of Duty Series

  8. Assassin's Creed I & II

  9. Battlefield: Bad Company 2

  10. The Darkness II

  11. Dishonored (?)

  12. Doom Series ( Except the Doom ( 2016 ) )

  13. F.E.A.R Series

  14. Fallout Series ( Except Fallout 4 )

  15. Five Nights at Freddy's Series

  16. Batman Arkham Series ( Except Batman: Arkham Knight )

  17. Garry's Mod

  18. Grand Theft Auto Series ( Except Grand Theft Auto: V )

  19. GRID 1

  20. Half-Life Series

  21. Hitman Series ( Except HITMAN & Hitman: Absolution (?) ) Haven't tried Hitman: Absolution, will going to try it soon

  22. Left 4 Dead Series

  23. LEGO Series ( Note: Some newer LEGO series need a high PC requirement )
    Recommended:

    • LEGO Batman 1 & 2
  24. Never Alone ( Kisima Ingitcuna )

  25. Operation Flashpoint Series

  26. Mirror Edge

  27. Painkiller Series ( I'm not sure about Painkiller: Hell and Damnation ) Haven't tried Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, will going to try it soon

  28. POSTAL Series ( I'm not sure about POSTAL III )

  29. Resident Evil Series ( Some newer Resident Evil series need a high PC requirement )
    Recommended:

    • Resident Evil 5
    • Resident Evil Revelation 2
  30. Serious Sam Series

  31. Sniper Elite Series ( I'm not sure about Sniper Elite: III )

  32. STAR WARS Series ( Except STAR WARS Battlefront )

  33. Castle Crasher

  34. Counter-Strike Series

The last but not the last

  1. Bad Rats

I've tried all of them on this spec:

  • Intel Pentium CPU 987 1.50 GHz
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Intel HD 2000

All of them works fine on my laptop, some of them even can played on higher setting ( ex. Dishonored, Call of Duty Series etc. ).

Note:
(?) = It mean i'm not sure if it can run on your laptop or not.

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Wow! Thank you very much for your long reply! I'll check a few. I have only 2 gigs of RAM, so I'm not so sure about several ones, but I really appreciate your message.

8 years ago
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No problem, i almost forgot about Devil May Cry 4.

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For the POSTAL series I would recommend you POSTAL 2.
In my opinion it is the best POSTAL game from the series.

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Thanks!

I have it in my library. On the ever growing backlog of games/movies/music/books/comics/etc.

Sad that I'm not going to live enough. :P

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That's interesting, I thought Rocket League was a graphics intensive game being one of the most new and popular releases.
Also, the fact alone that it can run Telltale The Walking Dead which requires a decent amount of graphics makes it roughly as good as my bulky 4 year old gaming laptop (repaired twice) which currently suffers from overheating, broken monitor and non-functional battery and could barely run that particular game 2 years after purchase.
In other words, I think it's doing quite impressively for a small notebook.

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I was quite impressed as well. One of my intentions with this post was let know to other potatoe users about light games that could work on their machines. Rocket League was a surprise, and Ziggurat too.

Ziggurat used to overheat my old gaming laptop a lot.

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FTL, cheap, shouldn't need much to run it, and you can sink a ton of hours into it.

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+1

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I have a toaster; I can play Planetship with only slight hiccups when transitioning between areas and when there are a ton of enemies on the screen

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VVVVVV

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If this weren't enough recommendations for now, here is what I played on my laptop (the ones from 2012 and newer): with one exception

Hopefully there's something for you!

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try out Hero Siege!

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Don't Starve

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What about old school Serious Sam? First and second encounter? It's also on sale on Steam atm so double bonus :D
Pretty cool shooter game and I think it would run on your potato :)

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How about Geoguessr ?

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with an Intel Atom Z3375 and 2gb ram i have gotten Gmod and CS:GO to work at at least 30fps. I think you could too.

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Outlast on 3gb ram low setting. Game dosent look bad and there is no lag while playing
Bound by Flame - on medium - high with shadows off.

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Do I have a potato machine? You should have asked how many potato machines I have.

7 years ago
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And you had to necro over 10 month old topic just to post a unfunny joke that added nothing to the discussion at all?

7 years ago
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I'm not the one who necroed the post. Someone else must have replied to somebody.

It showed up in my active discussions when I made this post.
Guess I should have looked at the timestamps.

In fact the OP themself is the one who necroed the post.
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My message has a timecode of 9:37pm, that one has 9:35pm.

So if anyone blacklists me over this, they're doing it for the wrong reason.

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I was wrong, my apologies

7 years ago
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It's okay. It's just bad to jump to conclusions.
I would know as I've done it before, and had to unblacklist someone.

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You blacklisted me assuming I necroed the post? I edited my post below to show that I was not the one who necroed it.
You've blacklisted me for no reason. :(

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I was afk for a few minutes, the moment I saw your comment I replied and corrected my mistake, sorry ;) no hard feelings ;)

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And it wasn't a joke at all. Lately I've been going to our local recycling center a lot.
Businesses around here are finally getting rid of old laptops (still really good machines such as a 3rd gen I5 with 8GB of RAM)
So I've been repurposing them for my cluster.

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I was not stating it was a joke as in "you don't really have multiple potatoes" because I have no way of knowing plus I own olike 2-3 old potatoes myself, but regardless of you having multiple potatoes or noit, the comment adds nothing to the debate, you intentionally pretend to misunderstand the point of the topic with only reason for doing so being able to post "funny" comment that adds nothing to the topic, yet is supposed to be related to it via this "misunderstanding" - in such definition be it real or not you having many potatoes the coment is a "joke" comment regardless ;)

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Well all visual novels should be able to run on a toaster.
As well almost all RPGMaker games should be able to run on half a potato.

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Things that I have been able to play on my potato:

Bastion + Transistor: I had some troubles with Transistor but it's not too bad, then are both very great and beautiful games.

Papers, Please: it doesn't grab me as I wish it would, but it's personal opinion. It's still a very unique and interesting game.

Long Live The Queen: if you are into visual novels you really should check this out, the trailer is very accurate. It's fun finding ways to become a tyrant.

Portal: I haven't tried the second game so I'm not sure but the first one run flawlessly in my potato, it deserves the hype in my opinion.

Somewhere Out There: a real gem if you like platformer games, short but pretty fun.

Spec Ops: The Line: I actually haven't played this but I tried the demo and it works fine, I have heard good things about it.

Lots of indie games like Mad Father, Oneshot, To The Moon and point and click adventure games usually don't demand much, many of them are pretty good, you should check them out.

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You can play a lot of psp and ps1 (maybe some of ps 2 games too) games

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Caveblazers, this is the police, mount and blade, dungeon of the endless, rome: total war, star wars knights of the old republic 1 and 2, civ 3. I'm guessing at least some of those might be too much for you, i was able to play them on a potato, but my potato was somewhat better than yours.

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Thanks! Caveblazers looks cool

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