RECOMMENDED GAMES
Commercial Games
Note that this is only based on our preferences and experiences, and that your list of recommended games may look different from ours (and that’s perfectly fine). This being said, most of these games are usually fairly well regarded, so unless you are deeply allergic to the related genre of each game, you probably can’t go very wrong with anything on the following list. Note that we do not include, on purpose, titles that are on Early Access. If you see any title that’s probably missing, feel free to contact us to let us know your suggestions.
The Intel HD column refers to how the game is expected to perform on computers equipped with older Intel HD integrated graphics (think 10 years old laptops and above). If a game runs well on those, chances are that they will run on just about any kind of potato out there.
| Title | Genre | Steam native | Steam deck | Intel hd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backpack Hero | 2D Action | O | verified | ? |
| Bastion | 2D Action | O | playable | Good |
| BlazBlue Entropy Effect | 2D Action | X | verified | ? |
| Broforce | 2D Action | O | playable | Good |
| Hotline Miami | 2D Action | O | verified | Good |
| NOT A HERO | 2D Action | O | playable | Good |
| OlliOlli | 2D Action | O | verified | Good |
| Oxenfree | 2D Action | O | verified | Good |
| Pyre | 2D Action | O | playable | ? |
| Teeworlds | 2D Action | O | playable | Good |
| Transistor | 2D Action | O | verified | Playable |
| ELDEN RING | Action RPG (ARPG) | X | verified | ? |
| Hades | Action RPG (ARPG) | X | verified | ? |
| Torchlight II | Action RPG (ARPG) | O | playable | Good |
| Broken Age | Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| DREDGE | Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair | Adventure | O | playable | Good |
| Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | Adventure | O | playable | Good |
| Day of the Tentacle Remastered | Adventure | O | rating TBC | Good |
| Disco Elysium | Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| Grim Fandango Remastered | Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Kentucky Route Zero | Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Life is Strange | Adventure | O | Playable | |
| Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus | Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo | Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| Resident Evil 2 | Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| The Blackwell Bundle | Adventure | O | Good | |
| The Stanley Parable | Adventure | O | verified | Playable |
| DiRT Showdown | Arcade Racing | O | Poor | |
| Neodash | Arcade Racing | O | playable | ? |
| Road Redemption | Arcade Racing | O | playable | Poor |
| BioShock Infinite | FPS | O | playable | Poor |
| Borderlands 2 | FPS | O | playable | Poor |
| DOOM | FPS | O | verified | Poor |
| Dead Island | FPS | O | Poor | |
| Dying Light | FPS | O | verified | Poor |
| Half-Life 2 | FPS | O | verified | Good |
| Half-Life: Source | FPS | O | playable | Good |
| Metro 2033 | FPS | O | Poor | |
| Metro: Last Light Redux | FPS | O | verified | Poor |
| Shadow Warrior | FPS | O | verified | Poor |
| Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | FPS | X | verified | ? |
| Bayonetta | Fighting | X | verified | ? |
| Skullgirls 2nd Encore | Fighting | O | verified | Good |
| Vanguard Princess | Fighting | O | unsupported | Good |
| Deus Ex: Mankind Divided™ | First Person Tactics | O | playable | Poor |
| Dishonored | First Person Tactics | O | verified | Poor |
| System Shock 2 | First Person Tactics | O | playable | Good |
| Cities: Skylines | God Games/Building | O | playable | Playable |
| Factorio | God Games/Building | O | verified | Good |
| Prison Architect | God Games/Building | O | playable | Good |
| Satisfactory | God Games/Building | X | playable | ? |
| Tropico 5 | God Games/Building | O | playable | Playable |
| dotAGE | God Games/Building | O | verified | Good |
| Alien: Isolation | Horror First Person | O | verified | Poor |
| Amnesia | Horror First Person | O | playable | Poor |
| Outlast | Horror First Person | O | playable | Poor |
| Terraria | Minecraft Like | O | verified | Good |
| Ballistic Overkill | Multiplayer FPS | O | Poor | |
| CS:GO | Multiplayer FPS | O | Poor | |
| Insurgency | Multiplayer FPS | O | unsupported | Playable |
| Left 4 Dead 2 | Multiplayer FPS | O | verified | Playable |
| Team Fortress 2 | Multiplayer FPS | O | playable | Poor |
| DOTA 2 | Multiplayer Online Battle Arena | O | Good | |
| Hitman (2016) | Open World Action | O | Poor | |
| Mad Max | Open World Action | O | verified | Poor |
| Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ | Open World Action | X | verified | Poor |
| Saints Row 2 | Open World Action | O | playable | ? |
| Saints Row IV | Open World Action | O | playable | Poor |
| Saints Row: Gat out of Hell | Open World Action | O | unsupported | Poor |
| Saints Row: The Third | Open World Action | O | playable | Poor |
| Don’t Starve | Open World Exploration | O | playable | Good |
| Kerbal Space Program | Open World Exploration | O | playable | Playable |
| SteamWorld Dig | Open World Exploration | O | verified | Good |
| SteamWorld Dig 2 | Open World Exploration | O | verified | Good |
| Another World | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Cave Story+ | Platformer / Adventure | O | playable | Good |
| Dust: An Elysian Tail | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| FEZ | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Guacamelee 2 | Platformer / Adventure | O | Good | |
| Guacamelee! Gold Edition | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Hi-Fi RUSH | Platformer / Adventure | X | verified | ? |
| LIMBO | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty | Platformer / Adventure | O | playable | Poor |
| Owlboy | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Psychonauts | Platformer / Adventure | O | playable | Good |
| Rochard | Platformer / Adventure | O | Good | |
| Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Super Meat Boy | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Teslagrad | Platformer / Adventure | O | playable | Good |
| VVVVVV | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap | Platformer / Adventure | O | verified | Good |
| Blocks That Matter | Puzzle | O | rating TBC | Good |
| Braid | Puzzle | O | verified | Good |
| Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective | Puzzle | X | verified | Good |
| Osmos | Puzzle | O | playable | Good |
| Papers, Please | Puzzle | O | verified | Good |
| Portal | Puzzle | O | verified | Good |
| Portal 2 | Puzzle | O | verified | Playable |
| SCHiM | Puzzle | O | verified | ? |
| The Talos Principle | Puzzle | O | playable | Poor |
| The Witness | Puzzle | O | playable | Poor |
| World of Goo | Puzzle | O | playable | Good |
| Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition | RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Cassette Beasts | RPG | O | verified | ? |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | RPG | X | verified | ? |
| DAVE THE DIVER | RPG | X | verified | ? |
| Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition | RPG | O | verified | Good |
| Inscryption | RPG | O | playable | ? |
| Pillars of Eternity | RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition | RPG | O | playable | Good |
| STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ | RPG | X | playable | Good |
| STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II: The Sith Lords™ | RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Shadowrun Hong Kong | RPG | O | Good | |
| Shadowrun Returns | RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director’s Cut | RPG | O | unsupported | Good |
| The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition | RPG | O | unsupported | Poor |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | RPG | X | verified | Poor |
| Dirt:Rally | Racing/Simulators | O | Poor | |
| F1 2017 | Racing/Simulators | O | Not Supported | |
| GRID Autosport | Racing/Simulators | O | Poor | |
| Company of Heroes 2 | Real Time Strategy | O | playable | Poor |
| Darwinia | Real Time Strategy | O | rating TBC | Good |
| Planetary Annihilation | Real Time Strategy | O | Poor | |
| Wargame: AirLand Battle | Real Time Strategy | O | playable | Poor |
| Wargame: European Escalation | Real Time Strategy | O | rating TBC | Poor |
| Wargame: Red Dragon | Real Time Strategy | O | playable | Poor |
| Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition | Real Time Strategy | X | unsupported | ? |
| Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition | Real Time Strategy | O | playable | Poor |
| Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved | Shooter | O | playable | Good |
| Pixeljunk Shooter | Shooter | O | Good | |
| Sniper Elite 4 | Shooter | X | verified | ? |
| American Truck Simulator | Simulation | O | verified | Playable |
| Euro Truck Simulator 2 | Simulation | O | verified | Playable |
| Rail Route | Simulation | O | verified | ? |
| Rocket League | Sports | O | verified | Playable |
| Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe | Sports | O | rating TBC | Poor |
| Civilization V | Strategy | O | Playable | |
| Civilization VI | Strategy | O | Poor | |
| Colonization | Strategy | O | Good | |
| Crusader Kings II | Strategy | O | playable | Playable |
| DEFCON | Strategy | O | rating TBC | Good |
| Empire Total War | Strategy | O | Poor | |
| Europa Universalis IV | Strategy | O | unsupported | Playable |
| Stellaris | Strategy | O | playable | Playable |
| Total War: SHOGUN 2 | Strategy | O | unsupported | Poor |
| Max Payne 3 | TPS | X | playable | ? |
| Specs Ops: The Line | TPS | O | Poor | |
| Tomb Raider(2013) | TPS | O | Poor | |
| Door Kickers | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Door Kickers 2 | Tactical / Tactical RPG | X | verified | ? |
| FTL: Faster Than Light | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | playable | Good |
| Hard West | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | playable | Poor |
| Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | verified | Playable |
| Shogun Showdown | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | verified | Good |
| Space Hulk | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | rating TBC | Playable |
| Space Hulk: Ascension | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | Poor | |
| The Banner Saga | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | verified | Good |
| Ultimate General: Gettysburg | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | rating TBC | Good |
| XCOM 2 | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | playable | Poor |
| XCOM: Enemy Unknown | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | playable | Playable |
| XCOM: Enemy Within | Tactical / Tactical RPG | O | rating TBC | Playable |