Great games that don't need great hardware to run

Tell me if any games are missing and I shall update the list as frequently as possible. Any games suggested should work on a Pentium IV 1.7GHz CPU and a GeForce 6200 card. Thanks for all the contributions and I hope this helps everyone with a very old PC who wants some good games to play.

• Advent Rising
• Age of Empires 1 & 2
• Age of Mythology + Titans expansion
• Alien Arena (free, available here)
• Alien vs. Predator 1 & 2
• Allegiance
• Altitude
• America's Army
• American McGee's Alice
• American McGee's Scrapland
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Area 51 (available for free here)
• Argametron
• Audiosurf
• Avernum
• Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
• Battle Realms
• Battlefield 1942
• Battlefield 2
• Battlefield Heroes (get it for free here)
• Battlestation Midway
• Beyond Divinity
• Beyond Good & Evil
• Black & White
• Blade & Sword
• Blood 1 & 2 + all expansions
• Blood Omen 1 & 2
• Braid
• Breath Of Fire IV
• Broken Sword (all)
• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
• Caesar 1-3
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth
• Call of Duty (all upto MW2)
• Cavestory
• Carmageddon(all)
• Carnivores 1 & 2
• Chaos Legion
• Chessmaster (all)
• Chromium
• City of Heroes + all expansions
• Cityscope
• Clive Barker's Undying
• Codename Panzers (all)
• Cold War
• Cold Fear
• Combat Mission (all)
• Command & Conquer (all)
• Commander Keen (all)
• Commandos (all)
• Colin McRae's Rally (all)
• Counter-Strike & Counter-Strike: Source(w\dx 7 and dx8\8.1 hardware levels)
• Crashday
• Crimson Skies
• Crusader: No Remorse
• Crusader: No Regrets
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
• Dark Reign (all)
• Darwinia
• Dawn of War + all expansions
• Day of Defeat + DoD: Source
• Day of the Tentacle
• Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
• Descent (all)
• Desperados
• Deus Ex 1 & 2
• Diablo 1 & 2
• Diner Dash
• Disciples II Gold
• Doom 1 & 2
• Doom 3 (only on low settings and with performance tweaks)
• Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
• Driver (all)
• Duke Nukem 3D + all expansions
• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
• Dune (all)
• Dungeon Keeper (all)
• Dungeon Siege 1 & 2
• Empire Earth (all)
• Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
• Europa Universalis
• Everquest (all)
• Evil Genius
• Exile
• Fable: The Lost Chapters
• Final Fantasy VII and VIII
• Fahrenheit\Indigo Prophecy
• Fallout 1 & 2
• Fallout: Tactics
• Far Cry
• Fate
• F.E.A.R. including all expansions (good performance only achieved by forcing DX8 shaders)
• Fiesta Online
• F.I.F.A. (all)
• F.I.F.A. Street (all)
• Flatout
• Fractal
• Freedom Force 1 & 2
• Freespace 1 & 2
• Frets on Fire (available free here)
• Frogger
• Full Spectrum Warrior
• Full Throttle
• Gabriel Knight (all)
• Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
• Galactics Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
• Geneforge (all)
• Geometry Wars
• Giants: Citizen Kabuto
• Globetrotter
• Gothic 1 & 2
• Grand Theft Auto (all upto GTA: San Andreas)
• Grandia II
• Grim Fandango(my personal fave)
• Ground Control 1 & 2
• GTR (all)
• Guild Wars
• Gunbound
• Gun Metal
• Gunroar (get it free at Sourceforge)
• Gunz Online
• Half Life + all expansions
• Half Life 2 + all episodes
• Halo 1 & 2
• Hearts of Iron (all)
• Hegemonia
• Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
• Heroes of Might & Magic(all)
• Hidden & Dangerous (all)
• Hitman (all)
• Homeworld
• Homeworld: Cataclysm
• Icewind Dale 1 & 2
• IL-2 Sturmovik + all expansions
• Imperialism I & II
• Imperium Galactica (all)
• Impossible Creatures
• Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis
• Keepsake
• Kohan (all)
• Legacy of Kain: Defiance
• Limbo
• Little Fighter (all)
• Loom
• Lock-On Air Combat
• Lords of War
• Mabinogi
• Machinarium
• Madden NFL (all)
• Mafia
• Manhunt
• Maple Story
• Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• Master of Magic
• Master of Orion (all)
• Max Payne 1 & 2
• Mechwarrior 4 : Vengeance
• Medal of Honor(all)
• Medieval: Total War (all)
• Messiah
• Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2
• Midnight Club (all)
• Midtown Madness (all)
• Minecraft (Get it here)
• Monkey island (all, including all the Tales of Monkey Island episodes)
• Motocross Madness (all)
• Mount & Blade
• MTX: Mototrax
• Myst (all)
• NBA Live (all)
• Need for Speed (upto NFS: Carbon)
• Neverwinter Nights + all expansions
• Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
• NHL (all)
• No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
• Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
• Nox
• Oddworld (all)
• Onimusha: Demon's Siege
• Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis + expansions
• O.R.B.
• Pacific Fighters
• Panzer General II
• Penumbra Trilogy (Overture, Black Plague & Requiem)
• People's General
• Pharaoh
• Planescape: Torment
• Planetside
• Populous 1 & 2
• Portal
• Postal
• Prince of Persia (all upto The Two Thrones)
• Pro Evolution Soccer (all)
• Project IGI
• Psi-Ops (all)
• Psychonauts
• Quake 1-3
• Rakion
• Radiosurf
• Recoil
• Rainbow Six 1-3 + all expansions
• Red Faction 1 & 2
• Resident Evil (all)
• Ricochet
• Rise of Nations + all expansions
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein + Enemy Territory
• Rogue Trooper
• Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2 + all expansions
• Rome: Total War
• Rune + Halls of Valhalla expansion
• Sam & Max (all)
• Sacred
• Sacrifice
• Savage (Get it free here)
• Scarface: The World is Yours
• Sea Dogs
• Second Sight
• Septerra Core
• Serious Sam (all)
• Severance: Blade of Darkness
• Shank 1 & 2
• Shogun: Total War
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Sid Meier's Antietam!
• Sid Meier's Civilization series
• Sid Meier's Pirates
• Silent Hill (all)
• Simcity
• Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
• SiN
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• Sniper Elite
• Spider-Man (movie version and comic-based version)
• Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
• Soldat (free; get it here)
• Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2
• Soul Reaver 1 & 2
• Space Empires IV
• Splinter Cell 1 & 2
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Starcraft + Brood Wars
• Starsiege Tribes (all)
• Startopia
• Star Wars: Battlefronts
• Star Wars: Empire at War + Forces of Corruption expansion
• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds + Clone Campaigns expansion
• Star Wars: Galaxies(all)
• Star Wars Jedi Knight (all)
• Star Wars: KotOR (all)
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1 & 2
• Star Wars: Republic Commando
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
• Star Wars: Starfighter
• Still Life
• Sumotori
• Super Meat Boy
• Stronghold
• Stronghold: Crusader
• S.W.A.T. (all)
• Syberia 1 & 2
• System Shock 1 & 2
• Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror
• Team Fortess Classic
• Terraria
• Test Drive 6
• The Binding of Isaac
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• The Chzo Mythos (All, available here)
• The Dig
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena (Available for free here; needs DosBOX)
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Available for free here; needs DosBOX)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (With Oldblivion, available here)
• The Godfather
• The Longest Journey
• The Lord of The Rings (all)
• The Movies + all expansions
• The Orange Box (all games)
• The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (graphically polished version of the original, WITH sound!)
• The Sims + all expansions
• The Sims 2
• The Yahtzee Trilogy (available here)
• Thief (all)
• Throne of Darkness
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour
• Titan Quest
• TOCA Race Driver (all)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon + all expansions
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 1-3
• Tomb Raider (all, upto TR: Anniversary)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (all)
• Torchlight
• Total Annihilation (all)
• TrackMania (all except United Forever)
• Tremulous (available for free here)
• Tribes (all)
• Tron 2.0
• True Crime: Streets of L.A.
• Tropico 1 & 2
• Ultima (all, including Underworld series)
• Uplink: Hacker Elite a.k.a. Uplink: Trust is a Weakness
• Unreal 1 & 2
• Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition
• Unreal Tournament 2003 & 2004
• Warcraft I, II & III + expansions
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War + expansions
• Warlords (all)
• Warsow
• War Wind 1 & 2
• Wing Commander (all)
• Wizardry 8
• World of Goo
• World of Warcraft + The Burning Crusade
• World in Conflict
• Worms 1-3 + all expansions
• Worms: Mayhem
• XIII
• X-Com (all)
• X-Men Legends (all)
• Zeus: Master of Olympus
• All Popcap and Miniclip games.

Many of the games mentioned above are available in free ad-supported form. Look here and here for them.

For those of you with netbooks, look here and here for frequently-updated lists of games that have been tested with different netbooks.

P.S. - Any red font indicates untested games. Unless I get confirmation of it working or test the game myself, it'll stay that way. If any of you can, try it out, and leave feedback in this thread so I can "officially" put it on the list.

Awh no tomb raider?

Point taken and list updated TypeX45, thanks.

i wud add
Age of empires 1
and age of empires 2 to the list,

No System Shock 2 ? For shame.

Thank you Didou(I kick myself for missing that really) and Face_of_LA. List updated.

How about SWKOTOR 1 and 2?

Would they run on an MX440 with a PIII 800MHz? I'm guessing not but if anyone knows otherwise, let me know and I'll add them to the list.

Added that and Cataclysm, thanks mailpup.

Sweet list ,since I havent been much of a PC gamer in the past,its nice to have some reference on games to check out.

Thanks Mechz.

Isn't Star Wars: Galaxies the online game ?

Yes, it is.

Have you tried playing CIV4 on a PIII, its not gonna work. Maybe you should specify CIV 1-3

Zeus: Master Of Olympus is also a great game that should run on almost any machine. I used to play it on my PII back in the day It's just a little hard to find. Amazon has it though :grinthumb

Is there a list of graphic intensive games? I spend a lot of money on a new system and intend to use it to its fullest!

Regards,

Korrupt

bought yahoo poker superstars II - very addicting and cheap for $20.00 Been playing it a lot!
Pocket tanks is another and super dx ball.

worms 2, also a fun game. Good luck finding it :evil: