Is there a service or knowledge base somewhere that can help you find the highest rated games for your hardware?
Background: I don’t have much time for games and just installed Bazzite on a few years old ThinkPad. I would like to play some games on it but don’t know what I can expect to be playable. I see tons of “will it run on steam deck” info but honestly couldn’t even figure out where this computers performance lies compared to a steam deck. This should be easy. Just type in specs, maybe filter genre and say “sort by meta score” or “sort by steam rating”.
If you have friends, “Never Split the Party” is a fun random dungeon-crawler game where each party member (4p coop) has an aspect of the game user interface like health or the map. If you split up you lose that UI. (ive never played binding of Issac but it seems like similar genre)
PCGameBenchmark seems to be exactly what you’re looking for.
Thanks! This is very useful! Now, if this functionality could be combined with the UI of ProtonDB … 🤔
Sounds like a use case for a good product or program, but it’s a hard problem to figure out game performance without installing and running. Soooo many videos online where people install 8 different games to manuallytest framerate, and none where they look up a ready value.
You could first look up the laptop’s GPU, and try putting it into a GPU compare site, score it against a GPU you’ve known and try games you’re familiar with.
If it’s just an Intel GPU, you pretty much know you’d only play basic 2D/lowpoly indie games, if which there are many.
I’d totally be fine with a rough “tier list” to start with. I know there are 2d games that are quite demanding, especially badly optimized indie games. And I think half life 2 can basically run on a potato despite still looking decent. So simply judging by how fancy it looks probably isn’t always going to work.
Recommended specifications from developers are highly subjective, so it would be kind of pointless to really create a database of what “works” because it’s different for who is writing the reviews/reports. If there was a database of what was reported solely from the developer, I guess you’d at least know what it was tested on for the best experience, but that doesn’t mean someone else would rather just get it to play on the lowest settings and experience just to have it work.
Seconded
This is a great resource but tells me nothing about whether or not I’m likely to have a good experience on my device.
You can filter by distros once you click on the game. Its not as convenient as filtering by distros and getting a list of compatible games but its something. Unfortunately, I dont see too much Bazzite on there. Maybe filter by whatever is upstream (I think arch?)
Bazzite is based on Fedora.
OP is probably mostly running into hardware, rather than software limits. While ProtonDB does include hardware reports, it’s made to check Linux compatibility primarily, and other benchmark sites will be better suited for OP. Most single player games should run well on Linux now.
My mistake, ether way they asked for a db of compatible games and thats what I linked
I’m sorry, you’re right it is another important piece of the puzzle and my comment didn’t really add anything.
I would say clarifying Fedora upstream is important. Since there is no Bazzite option on Proton DB and I know nothing about Bazzite.
And this is why I love lemmy. No drama.
Thank you to all! I was aware of what bazzite is but this might be relevant for some lurkers. I am indeed mostly interested in what my hardware can do. I don’t game enough to warrant a hardware upgrade right now. Once I do want to upgrade it would be good to see “what should I go for to be guaranteed a good experience on the more modern games I am curious about”. My desktop is aging and I might go laptop-only at some point and live without the latest AAA games, there’s a huge back catalog!
