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You're not playing this one to be wowed by fancy graphical effects—you're playing for Stephen Merchant's, J. Simmons', and Ellen McLain's terrific voice acting, and of course for that bit with the potato.

Release date: Developer: Mojang Link: Official site. Mojang's infinite block-'em-up isn't terribly demanding specs-wise, and it's the perfect game to mess around with on a laptop when you're supposed to be writing features for PC Gamer about low-spec games.

While it's often played on a tablet, phone or console these days, you're getting the latest updates and mod support if you choose to build stuff with your PC. Here's our frequently updated list of the best Minecraft mods. An indie sensation that brought the idyllic farm life of Harvest Moon to PC.

Build your farm into a vegetable empire, go exploring, learn about the lives of your neighbors, fall in love and settle down. Simple graphics ensure this one will run like a dream on your laptop, and it'll make long flights pass by in a snap.

Stardew Valley has officially supported co-op farming for a couple years now, which is undoubtedly a great way to go back to Pelican Town. This tiny strategy game was one of our early favorites in Most importantly, all that classically-inspired goodness comes in a tiny installation that shouldn't challenge your PC nearly as much as your strategy skills. An instantly addictive card combat roguelike, which takes the strategic fun of deckbuilding board games and marries it with the sensibilities of games like The Binding of Isaac and Risk of Rain, where finding random "relics" can change how you play.

Or, if you get a lucky combination, turn you into a murderous card god. Like the best roguelikes and deckbuilders, Slay the Spire feeds you that immense satisfaction when you find a combo that absolutely wrecks.

Enemies that were once intimidating fall before you like flies. It's a fun one to replay again and again, thanks to unlockables like more powerful cards for each deck type, and protagonists that play wholly differently from one another. A phenomenal, bite-sized turn-based strategy game from the makers of FTL, and easily one of PC Gamer's favorite games of It's incredibly replayable, with different mech squads and tactics to master.

As we said in our Into The Breach review : "Exacting, agonising, challenging, and intensely rewarding, Into the Breach delivers in the tiniest package the most perfectly formed tactics around. Civ is usually a safe bet when it comes to low-end machines, and you won't need too beefy a PC in order to play the second newest entry in the series.

Just don't go blaming us when you forget to sleep, so embroiled are you in your quest to wipe the warmongering Gandhi from the face of the Earth. Finally, the digital adaptation Magic deserves. The eternal collectible card game has gotten plenty of bite-size videogames over the years, and limped along with the bigger, messier Magic: The Gathering Online, but this one is finally the real Magic experience, and it's still a lot of fun.

And its recommended system specs belong to hardware—any modern laptop will handle it no problem. It is much more generous than tabletop Magic.

You'll still need to drop money for whatever perfect deck's dominating the meta, or if you can't be bothered grinding daily quests for gold. But if you climbed out of the money hole of collecting Magic cards in a book full of plastic sleeves back in the day, this is a safe way of re-experiencing that without going broke. A brilliant, stressful strategy dungeon explorer that channels Lovecraft with brilliant narration and truly terrifying quests. As your party encounters horrors in the dark, the stress piles on, and too much stress causes them to take on new personality quirks that snowball into yet more stress and loss of sanity.

This creates a constant tension. Rose Riddle: The Fairytale Detective. Travel to Thailand. Incredible Dracula 2: The Last Call. Weather Lord: The Successor's Path. Goodgame Big Farm. Totem Tribe 2: Jotun. Fishdom 3. Rail Nation. Goodgame Empire. World of Warships. World of Tanks. Best Free PC Games. Free Games by Genre.

Download PC Games. Best PC Games. New PC Games. Popular PC Games. Imaginative naming. You might head straight for 2D games when you think of title that'll work with pretty modest hardware. However, some once-fancy 3D games work very well with non-gaming laptops. Valve's Source engine is especially good at working with less powerful GPUs, making classics like Half-life 2 play delightfully on modern integrated graphics hardware. If you're not up for a thinking person's FPS like Half-Life 2 , you might want to check out fantastic first-person puzzler Portal 2 instead.

It is also based on the Source engine. Portal 2 takes the portal gun from Half-Life 2, which makes teleporting holes in walls, and makes a whole game out of it. It's easy to think of Minecraft as retro in some way, but it's actually far more groundbreaking than some of the nay-saying haters would have you believe. It is not just for kids, either. Try it, you might just like it.

This world-building classic was never out to wow audiences with its Crysis-style graphics, but its highly scalable visuals let you tweak Minecraft to suit any machine. As well as being able to experiment with the draw distance and the few visual effects the game uses, you can alter the field of view as well. Minecraft is also best-suited for laptop gaming, as you don't need to be very accurate with your cursor.

This is handy if you're using a trackpad rather than a mouse. Its sequel, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number , keeps everything that made the first game work. The game is available on just about every platform so you can play no matter what kind of laptop you own. Don't Starve is an outrageous little game where you wander around in a somewhat twisted nightmarish world, exploring and picking up supplies to try to survive, day by day.

When the sun goes down, awful creatures start prowling in the shadows. If you don't build a fire, you're a goner.

You also have to eat to keep yourself healthy, and even your mental health deteriorates if you don't find out ways to pep yourself up. If you don't mind tempting addiction in your laptop gaming, Hearthstone is a title not to miss.

It is a little like nerd classic card battle game and also video game Magic: The Gathering, but much better-suited to quick, casual play. Like many other modern casual games, however, you'll likely end up playing for a lot longer than five minutes. And it feels even more "right" on a laptop than a bulky desktop.