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Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Have a win 7 mouseless laptop I'd like to put a game on and play for funs. Typically my go to game for olden computers is Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or maybe Civ 4. Any recommendations?

Diablo2, WC3, and RTSs would be tricky because lack of mouse and I'd prefer no rush to my actions so I can simultaneously be coding and just do minibreaks taking a turn or part of a turn here and there

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Obra Dinn in amazing and doesn't need any power.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ignorant one here:

How would you play anything on it? Steam is no longer supported. The OS itself I don't think is any longer supported? Are you planning to pirate them all?

I'm just gonna be another Lemmite and suggest replacing W7 with Linux 🤷

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you really never heard of GOG? It's an awesome platform. They allow you to actually buy games so you can 100% own them drm free. No Steam or whatever other game launcher is needed. Also they specialize in older games, so it's perfect for this use case.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Of course I've heard of GoG. Didn't realize they would run without the launcher or that anything at all would run on W7...

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well, games used to and still run on MS DOS, so Win 7 really isn't an issue.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course they used to work, that doesn't mean they'll still work today...

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually the opposite is true. I don't know of a single game where the devs patched out something so it stops working on the OS it released on.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...they don't have to.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

I get the feeling you're just being contrarian on purpose now. Most, if not all games released on win 7 will still run on win 7 now, and will continue doing so forever, period. That's exactly why OP is asking for cool games from that era.