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Tumbleweed, there are dozens of us!! <3

The trusty twinkpad will play a lot of 'good old games', just to name a few:
Doom(s), Quake(s), Unreal, Deus Ex, Elder Scrolls (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), Thief(s), Dungeon Keeper(s), Carmageddon, Fallout(s), Resident Evil(s), Vampire: The Masquerade, Hitman(s), Clive Barker's Undying, Gothic(s), Half-Life, Tomb Raider(s), Myst(s), Monkey Island(s), Baldur's Gate(s), Icewind Dale(s), Diablo(s), GTA(s), KotOR, Outcast, Serious Sam(s), Cave Story, Dark Souls (1 & 2, bcs 30fps, but only barely/unpleasanty?), ...

Maybe some newer retro ones, like Dusk?

Or not that visually important games, like 2D platformers and management games, etx - like Stardew Valley, Terraria, Dead Cells, Disco Elysium, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Momodora(s?), Spelunky(s), ...

All of the mentioned are excellent.

I would take a look at Warframe.

https://www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck

I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.

Any Gameboy game with an emulator.

Nintendo doesn't care about making their old games, nay, works of art like Golden Sun still playable, so I consider them free to play at this point.

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

https://lemmy.world/post/14336843

Nethack

any games made before your laptop should work. any of the Myst games or Ultima games...

Open Transport Tycoon.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart - A super fun and challenging Mario Kart style game made in the original Doom engine.

CatsEyeXI - An unofficial, custom Final Fantasy XI MMO server with fast leveling, solo play and many quality of life features. (Following guides is still recommended, because it's a complicated and vague game at the best of times!)

ETLegacy - A free to play version of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a fun and fast team-based first person shooter.

Gog has a small list of free games. Some can even be modded further, like Daggerfall.

Shattered pixel dungeon!

Battle for Wesnoth. Really fun turn based strategy game - https://www.wesnoth.org/

Its free and open source. They have it on steam now as well.

Emulate GBA and PS1.

Could give Ultima Online Outlands a try? But careful, addicitive but fun!

do u fw old minecraft? i like the beta version, its free if you use betacraft launcher >:)

Trackmania Nations Forever

If you like, there's a paid version with more enviroments Trackmania United Forever

not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, Space Station 13 (online), Simutrans, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth

I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom

Panel Attack

Technically, every game is free as long as you know where to find it.

And any game made before 2010 is likely to run perfectly on these specs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-520.149940.0.html

The gaming benchmarks show you'll probably be able to play most of the older f2p games at 720p low settings and be =>30fps.

Ss14 and cdda

Xonotic

While I'm not sure how much of a difference the CPU and RAM will cause, my current laptop has the same GPU, so I should have a general idea of what games will work on your laptop.

Since you mentioned RuneScape, I do actually have RuneLite (a third party client for OSRS) on this computer and it does run fine. I haven't tested it yet but I'm pretty RuneScape (RS3) should also work well. The last time I ran RuneScape on Linux was when I had a computer with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 and I was able to get an almost playable frame rate at my usual graphical settings, so I'm curious about how well it'll run on my current computer, but I currently don't have any interest in playing RuneScape at the moment.

As for other games, if you're interested in games similar to quake, I'm not really a fan of these types of games but I know that World of Padman worked pretty well when playing offline, so I don't see why it wouldn't work well on your computer. It might seem like a weird choice at first but the levels are quite large and detailed, and the music is also pretty good as well. It started as a mod for Quake 3 before it became it's own standalone game. This can either be downloaded from their website or from Flathub.

Another game I know of is called Urban Terror. Similar to World of Padman, it also derived from Quake 3 but it looks and plays more like Counter Strike (or at least what I think CS plays like). I personally didn't care for this one as much but some people might like it more than WoP. This can be downloaded from either their website or from Flathub.

http://sauerbraten.org/

It's definetly not for everyone but space station 14 can be a lot of fun.

@Grumpy404 I know 3 games that can run smooth on that hardware

1. Taisei Project
2. The Red Robot Radio
3. Midori in the Magic School
   These games are open source and linux native

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

Super Tux Kart

If you like FPS

XONOTIC will be great

I think the free Ascii version of Dwarf Fortress should run fine.

-Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well.

-Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization.

-Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I've played them since the 90s.

-Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don't remember much about it, except that it's good.

-To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things.

-Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman.

-Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.

Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.

The original release of cave story is free.

https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php

I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft

https://nzp.gay/