which games can i play on my laptop

Jul 19, 2025
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hello there,

my first post here, my question is which games can i play on my laptop... laptop specs below


i5 tenth gen cpu

16gb ram

gpu nvidia mx230 2gb gpu

also intel UHD

windows 11 pro


... so my question is which games can i play on this laptop, i am interested in survival games and single player rpg games mainly... but also open to other type of games.



thx
 
Hi and welcome.

The good news is that there are tons of really good older and Indie games you could look into. Nearly anything that came out before 2014 should be fine, and a lot of new and older Indie games. Your CPU and RAM should be able to run anything current, but the graphics card isnt very strong so it will limit you on demanding newer games.

For RPGs stuff like Divinity Original Sin, and maybe Original Sin 2 or the Pathfinder games (Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous) should work according to specs. If you like the isometric style you would have Pillars Of Eternity and all the early Dungeons and Dragons games that inspired it like Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 and others if you havent played them before.

If youre talking about 3D RPGs then you'd be looking back to original Oblivion, not the remaster. The first 3 Dragon Age games and Mass Effect up to 3, possibly Andromeda. Then you have Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 on low settings.

Survival game wise, I'm not a big player of those, I'm not sure what from the last few years will work well. Something like Dont Starve will work, Ive also heard of The Long Dark and Darkwood but someone else would know much more about those types of games.

For more specific recommendations it would help if you mentioned what games youve played before and liked, but theres something to start off.
 
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I5 10th Gen was release in 2019/20. If you are willing to Trouble shoot many of the games, you will be safe to play anything 2021/22 downwards.

Just make sure your Nvidia is set to default device. Check in your device manager if it is an actual NVidia card. On an old Lenovo laptop of mine it indicated it had an Nvidia, but device manager just listed it as a renderer. I had to manually set each game to use the Nvidia renderer since I could not set it as a default device.

Games, all depends on what you like. Buying out of hope that the system will run it becomes costly (talking of experience here. Recently bought Horizon in hope but cannot play it).

Decide on a Genre, look at the trailers and then pick one. I would suggest working on 2014 as Kaamos said for starters. So do a google search for PC games Pre 2014. Start building your Wishlist from those and then start working your way up. My CPU was released in 2018 and I am doing fairly well with most games. I seem to be failing from around 2021/22 upwards.
 
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