Suggest PC Games for Low-End PC

It'll be able to play some but that GPU will be the biggest problem, get a dedicated graphics card. Mine was £20 from some dude round the corner (free ads paper) and has kept my pc playing all the current gen games, nothing I've tried hasn't ran. Its only a GT240 which are not very good now, weren't brilliant on release but they do the job. The CPU, the main problem is its a celeron, but still may be passable, but again, if your board can take a core2duo instead then upgrade it, a core2duo at the same speed won't be a huge price on ebay nowadays. If you did those two upgrades which would be probably less than £50. You would be fine for pretty much all games for a while, not on amazing settings but thats pretty much my spec and games play quite well for the most part. Also the other advantage to upgrading that graphics card is directx9 is **** on a resource level I mean, directx10 and 11 can get a lot more juice out of lower powered equipment. Benchmarking in certain games that allow it generally gives me a huge increase in fps by switching on directx10 mode over 9 and they look better too.

Which genres do you prefer? There are a lot of older games out there that are still worth playing, and even some new ones like puzzle and adventure games.

Well the reason I went down that route is because its hard to just start naming games, there are thousands of games and many will run fine on your pc. Older ones more likely than newer ones but even some newer ones. It really depends on the type of support the devs went for. Here ya go then, I'll start ya off. I know Portal 2 can run on not great hardware and also not at the best of framerates but it can run. And given that I would say, quite probably any source game. But let me guess, already played and completed? Very hard question to answer, why not say, will these games work, will xxx work? Its a lot easier to say yay or nay then. Let me think through the games I own on steam, company of heroes will probably run, commandos definately will, portal 2 as mentioned, team fortress 2 as mentioned being its source, call of duty is always a potential as the devs go for high framerates, only way to do that is make the graphics **** lol, Lots of Indie games as they tend to be less demanding, Lone Survivor should easily run and is fairly recent, Limbo will probably work. Its really really hard to just spout off games without at least having a genre to deal with. And with the way that lots of games can scale their graphics right back even some more recent half decent or aaa titles may still work on low settings

Oblivion is great, I'm re-playing it right now (even though it's modded to the max)

Anything before 2005 should work just fine, there are thousands of games to pick from, man. Here are the ones that i recommend:

Prince of Persia Trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, The Two Thrones)

Hitman 2: Silent Assasin

Half Life and the Opposing Force expansion (which is better than the original)

Icewind Dale + Hearts of Winter (be sure to get theTweak pack. Excellent dungeon crawler with beautiful 2D graphics, the best Infinity Engine combat, tons of wonderfully detailed environments to explore, and tons of loot to collect. I like this game much more than Baldur's Gate, it has better combat)

Divine Divinity (Elder Scrolls/Diablo hybrid, and a excellent one at that. Huge world to explore)

Half Life 2

Mount & Blade 1.011 with the Prophesy of Pendor module (same as Warband, tons of mods, endless replay value, and a excellent combat system)

GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas

Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete Edition

Deus Ex (install the mods in my signature, get the openGL renderer, it'll work good on your old system)

Rise of Nations: Gold Edition

Gothic 2: Gold (my favorite open-world RPG)

Fallout 1 & 2 (with the restoration pack which adds a ton of well placed, quality content. Find them here)

Max Payne 1 & 2

Diablo 2

Starcraft

Warcraft 3

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind

Half-Life: Source

Half-Life 2

Counterstrike

Doom 1, 2, Final Doom

All timeless classics with low PC requirements