Gaming without a graphics card?

Cthulhu saves the World

You should be ok with most 2D and flash games

i played dota 1 on integrated one

or try the ps1 or N64 emulators there are great games and with the integrated graphics of the mother/processor is enough, i played without dedicated graphics for years man, i know the suffering but i played a lot of good games, you can try morrowind also, i also played minecraft for 2 years in a netbook without dedicated graphics, minecraft its CPU dependent, not GPU, i played that game by increasing the voltage of the front-side-bus with a software called SetFSB, its a risky program if you use it indiscriminately, but i was desesperated and it works very well, i get up to 30 fps with my shitty intel atom in minecraft...

Blindside

Download this, I played it when my old graphic card gave up the ghost.

The question naturally is what are your integrated graphics. This is based on the CPU you have, and will affect what games you're able to play. If you're not able to play Minecraft, it may be that you don't have the right driver installed, and have fallen back on the generic driver that comes with the OS.

Broken Sword series !

"What games can you recommend that don't require a graphics card?"

What are you going to use for output, your printer?
Text adventure I guess then.

Look into games that allow you to use software rendering (where the CPU does the work and no GPU is required). I believe Sim City 4 has this option and is a fantastic game you could sink many hours into. I'm not sure how powerful the CPU actually has to be though.

Gaming without a graphics card? = Gaming without fun :D

I had times with a quite low integrated card so here are some of the older games I played:
Neighbours from hell, Freedom fighters, Outlaw golf, Sims 1, Half-Life and lots of mods, Counter-Strike, Syberia, Blood Omen 1 and 2, Soul Reaver 2, Dead to rights, Rise of Nations, Heretic 2, Quake 2 and 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4, Screamer 4x4, Dungeon Siege, Age of empires 2, JAmes Bond Nightfire, Hitman 2 and Contracts, Pro evolution soccer 4 or 5
You can play PS1,N64,NES,SNES games too on emulators.
Check this video, has a lot of old games and I'm sure they will run just fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZp2_k0mIKs

absolutely radikal biker!!!

Fallout 1 & 2
Fallout Tactics
Super Sanctum TD
Cave Story+
Pixel Puzzles: Japan
10,000,000
Wolfenstein 3D
Gnomoria
FTL: Faster than Light
Papers please
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Editions 1 & 2
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
POSTAL
Final Slam 2
Duke Nukem 3D

My graphic card died about a month ago and I was a few days with the integrated one. I was playing only Resonance (other Wadjet Eye games should be fine too) and Papers, Please... though the latter one was lagging a bit.

I'm in the same situation as you at the moment. All I have is a integrated graphics card that is terrible.
I can recommend using onlive. You can stream games at high graphics settings without needing a good graphics card. The only limitation to this is you need to have fast internet or else you will get a very bad connection and the game won't be very playable.

I did play a whole lot without my card so i would recommend some games like starcraft, half life 1 and lots of mods, some indies like Dungeon Chaos, Jables adventure and Annihilation a geometry wars clone (look for those 3 on pixel prospector there you could find lots of indie free games with are pretty fun), torchlight, soldat, the suffering, dead pixel and ftl (if you are into casual peggle,insaniquarium and basicaly whole pop cap library of games should do it) besides all the rpg maker based games and gba/ps1 emulator ones ( you should give a look at wackymodder84 low spec pc games series and pixel prospector 235 free indie games compilation with i would say 60-70% works fine on integrated cards)

Binding of Isaac (not rebirth)
Defender's Quest.
Avernum games.
Dungeons of Dredmor.

You could also try games that run through a browser, shame you just missed the humble bundle for them. Faster Than Light might work too, but I dont know for sure.

First you need to know what DirectX version your card support, a game may look crapy but if it need DX9 and your gpu dont support it the crappy game dont run. Same happen to me, my gpu burn and now im using an very old laptop, and the video card dont is not compatible with DX9.
POSTAL
RUNE
VICTIM OF XEN
NOSFERATUM
HAMMERWATCH (it use OPENGL)

The really important thing is the compatibility between your video card and the diferent version of DirectX.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

I played this game the other day (not me in the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9BA4-TuamY

Playing without any graphics card is impossible, since computer won't be able to display any image.

But I'll just assume that you have integrated graphics card. And now here is where you need to give one more information. What integrated card do you have? I've run Resident Evil 5 on X4500 (low detail - 40-50fps). Borderlands 1, Typing of the Dead: Overkill and Poker Night 2 on HD 3000 (High detail - 60 fps), Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown on both of them. (payable on low/medium detail) The walking dead on GMA 3150 (about 15-20 fps on low detail)

Or just play Might and Magic: Duel of Champions, Final Fantasy VII or Game Dev Tycoon. If nothing else works just try Crysis 3. It might work.

Bad Rats is the answer, always.

HL3