Good 'long' games for low-end systems

[StickyStyle]

I am looking for some good in depth games for my wife's laptop, which is unfortunately not all that powerful; P3 600 w/ 384MB RAM and a S3 savage video card.
She has grown sick of the 'time sink' games that come default in edgy and was looking for something more indepth, she likes RTS games but all the current ones i found on http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Strategy_Games are a little to heavy for her system. I have put freeciv and battle for wesnorth on there and have yet to see if she takes a liking to either being turn based, if not i need a backup plan :-k

Any recomendations?

[Esben Kramer]

How does she feel about adventure games? ScummVM and Beneath a Steel Sky, should both be in the repositories. ScummVM is a program used to run games, such as Beneath...

The game is long, very good and she can easily run it! Give it a whirl.

[skymt]

Long? I don't know of that many long games that will run on a system that outdated. I do know of some infinite games, though. ;) Tales of Middle Earth (http://www.t-o-m-e.net/), Ancient Domains of Magic (http://www.adom.de/), or Linley's Dungeon Crawl (http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/). All three look simple because they're text-based, but they have an amazing level of depth.

Of course, you're probably looking for something in between the two extremes of complexity. In that case, your best bet may be to find some older Windows games, and run them in Wine. Starcraft, for example, never gets old.

[lazyart]

If you want some fun (and I havent done it yet but I will), grab the frotz package and find the Zork series downloads elsewhere. Text adventure at it's best.

[StickyStyle]

Ah yes, the adventure game genre of old, totally forgot about that. I think that would work good, thank you.

As for the other games, she is definitively not a nethack/rogue kind of chick; would be cool if she was though :)

[skymt]

Ah yes, the adventure game genre of old, totally forgot about that. I think that would work good, thank you.

As for the other games, she is definitively not a nethack/rogue kind of chick; would be cool if she was though :)

Flight of the Amazon Queen is another ScummVM adventure game in the repositories. If you can find an old DOS copy of Monkey Island 1 or 2, that would also run in ScummVM.

As I said before, consider Wine. There are lots of good Windows games that will run on that hardware.

[edemark]

You might also try some dos games. Many of them works perfecly in dosbox. You can get a great wariety of generes from adventure to strategy and simulators as well as rpgs. You can download loads of dos games from www.abandonia.com

good gaming to her

[Anonii]

Not an RTS, but you could try Planescape:Torment, one of the best RPGs ever, IMO. Its pure dialog based, which means that combat doesnt really matters. Its also 7years old, so I guess that her PC can support it. Finally its playable under Wine (it worked for me, after some tweaking)

[mtxrawkus]

+1 for DOS games!! I'll whole-heartedly recommend the King's Quest, Space Quest, and Monkey Island series. SCUMMVM will run most of them, however if you really want a great starter adventure with a ton of humor and a great reggae soundtrack get a copy of Monkey Island 1, you WILL NOT regret it! :mrgreen:

Oh, I forgot to mention all of my other favorite adventure game jewels like Sam and Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

[sloggerkhan]

There's a chance you could get Baldur's Gate and BGII working under wine... If you can manage it, I highly recomend. Some of the best games ever.

[christhemonkey]

Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road and Monkey Island?!

:O

Its been proper time since iv played these!

*digs out his old copies*

[sloggerkhan]

I remember day of the tentacle, lol.

[kvonb]

Adonthell, (sorry can't remember where I got it), it's a "Kings Quest" type game, a bit soppy, but she might like that.

Do a search on google I expect that will find it.

It is free and comes in a .deb package so it is simple to install.

Also Ur-Quan masters, again can't remember where I got it, it's a space adventure game where you have to travel to different planets and collect bits and pieces to make a spacecraft. It is a cult classic from the early nineties I believe. I played the original many years ago.

My wife's favourite is "Shisen-Sho", available in the add/remove programs menu option. That is great for a simple "time waster".

"Virus Killer", again from the add/remove, also try here:

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/

and here:

http://techgage.com/article/top_10_free_linux_games/1

Have fun, regards Kev :)

[slimdog360]

grab dosbox and zsnes, then vist abandonia (http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php) and a few other rom sites for the snes. final fantasy, chronotrigger etc rock.

[B0rsuk]

I really recommend Fish Fillets. (fillets-ng in repositories). Be sure to install all additional packages, sound packs etc. Playing with original Czech voices and subtitles is loads of fun, especially if you just barely understand it.

It's a puzzle game and a very good one.
The game's deceptively good, polished graphics, music and sound hides a lot of depth, and ... it's fairly difficult. Don't tell her, she'll learn that quick.

If you use ALSA (you should, because it's better), run with aoss fillets-ng to emulate oss. You need alsa-oss package for that. Otherwise your sound won't work.

You can also check DROD (Deadly Rooms Of Death). Simply the best puzzle game. While the demo version doesn't provide you with full official hold (levelset), it's fully functional (even GPLed), and you can still download high quality usermade levelsets.
http://drod.net