I’ll be travelling soon and was wondering what are good games for low power-usage and offline?
Previously I enjoyed:
- Into The Breach
- Baba Is You
- Vampire Survivors
- Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)
At the moment I’m planning to set up:
- Lufia 2 (SNES)
- Shadowrun (SNES + Genesis versions)
- Golden Sun (GBA)
- A Link To The Past (SNES)
- Minish Cap (GBA)
- A Link Between Worlds (NDS) - never played it, hopefully the controls map well!
- Fire Emblem: Awakening (NDS) - same as above, never had a NDS
- Oracle Of Ages (GBA)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- Ogre Battle 64 (N64) - not sure how bad the power usage is on the N64 emulators
Maybe the Ace Attorney and Professor Layton series too which I haven’t played. Also GTA1, London and 2 if they work. I love Advance Wars too but I’ve played it too many times already.
Basically anything that is easy to run, low power, and easy to play with just the controls and small screen in a cramped space. Ideally nothing too difficult / stressful like Hollow Knight that could be hard to play without good screen brightness or cramped.
I like a lot of older PC games but unfortunately they’re difficult to play without a mouse and on the small screen - e.g. Ultima VII and Arx Fatalis.
FTL : Faster Than Light, a must have.
I never beat the final boss, like the game is relatively easy up to that point and then it’s a huge difficulty spike.
FTL multiverse is a must. It has much more variety and chances to equip yourself for the final boss, removing much of the randomness of being able to win.
Edit: it has a system requirements spike on the original…I dont know what exactly it needs, but my shitty backup laptop doesnt have enough memory for it while the original works fine.
Binding of Isaac: Repentance is fantastic.
The Banner Saga is a superb turn-based strategy game. Slay the Spire is a deck-builder roguelike. Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn are also great.
Portal.
Enter the gungeon.
It will look like your battery is draining very fast but it’s just the time flying by so fast.
