I’m loaning the laptop I’m typing this on to a friend who is recovering from knee surgery at home. I’d like to install a handful of games that will run on somewhat older hardware (1.8 ghz, 384 mb ram). Some fun roguelike rpg recommendations would be nice, but a few graphical time wasters would be good too. rpgs and action type games that can play well with a laptop keyboard preferred over puzzle or card type games.
(Running 11.2 with the defaults + games repo enabled.)
Thanks much in advance!
If it has OO Calc on it, putting =GAME() in any cell with either “Froggie” or “StarWars” in the brackets will provide a couple of games. OO Calc has to be reloaded to run them again.
My mother plays solitaire on her old 900MHz Dell desktop (with 512MB RAM).
I think you will find chess programs still play a pretty strong chess game on such a PC and will be a serious challenge to most chess players. Games/Chess - openSUSE
I know these are not action games, … but still, they are IMHO worth adding to the list.
Why not Wesnoth?
I second Wesnoth - it’s quite addictive.
Beneath a Steel Sky is available for the ScummVM emulator for free.
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe also works quite nicely, though takes some tinkering to get the AI to behave in any sensible way.
Install PySolFC if you’re going to do cards/mahjong - it eats the competition for breakfast.
Two nice shoot-them-up games are chromium and glaxium, if you have 3D enabled. They run fine in a 1.8 GHz laptop here (although with 1 GB RAM). IIRC you can find them in packman repo.
There’s also cube, a very low footprint doom-like game, it was very cleverly done programming-wise, but I haven’t tried it for a long time - not my type of game.
Is there a Transport Tycoon for Linux!! Oh Noes! I wasted about two years of my life on that!
Genuinely addictive!
It’s the same, but better - and the AI doesn’t cheat (well, you could probably make it cheat if you wanted to…) 
It’s Dungeon Keeper that’d get me. If they ever port that to linux, my social life, such as it may be, is dooooomed.
