Low Spec HIDDEN GEMS (Run On ANY Computer!)

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You've GOT to try these 5 low spec PC games, guaranteed to run on ANY computer! They are among my favourite PC games that fly under the radar, my personal 'hidden gems'. (Games shown in intro: Aqua Kitty, Blazing Chrome, Wizorb, Inmost, GoNNER)
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00:00 You do NOT need a GAMING PC!
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@zombee38 5 ай бұрын

Low spec games for my poor brain

@metalofthedeath 5 ай бұрын

Hidden gems run on anything Computer games with my friend techdweeb Whose face no one has ever seen Can’t wait to see the next game he plays Pause the video at 11:30 Reassured mores on the way

@Alexander_Bahgheera 5 ай бұрын

@@metalofthedeathindeed!💪🤓

@jasonanthonywilper 5 ай бұрын

Fancy graphics have nothing to do with the gameplay - which makes the game enjoyable

@paindavoine_design 5 ай бұрын

4:28 This kind of aesthetics is closer to the SNES, the NES was displaying less colors and effects like parallax (which is still possible on the NES but less used)

@mrcroco5121 5 ай бұрын

I just love the choice of video topics you provide lately .. its a great direction for you Thank you very much for your hard work ! This channel is truly the definition of a hidden gem , doubt it will remain hidden for much longer ;)

@fourteen00 5 ай бұрын

Awesome list. Found some new ones I can't wait to check out.

@foreignuser_ 5 ай бұрын

It was awesome seeing Bot Vice on here. Didn't expect that. Great video man and definitely got a new sub.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy!

@WMARUoriginal 5 ай бұрын

Oh wow so many games to check out now. You're hidden gems series is the new gold standard!

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Apprecaited!

@BandoidView 5 ай бұрын

This is a terrific list! Thanks! I love Jamestown and I have Teleglitch but never played it. You're a riot, man. You never fail to crack me up while imparting information that I'm totally into 😊. By the way, this is a great topic for a series. Looking forward to many more of these

@BOFAFett 5 ай бұрын

This video was needed! Thanks for all your work!

@eldercristian7329 2 ай бұрын

Amazing list! I'm expecting for more videos like this one!

@rodrigofaalves 5 ай бұрын

We want MOAR!!! You, The Phawx, Retro Game Corps and Taki Udon are, in my opinion, the kings of retro emulation devices and all things related. Thank you for your awesome videos and I do hope more people subscribe to your channel, which is also a hidden gem.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy :D

@roqeyt3566 5 ай бұрын

Can't wait for the next parts! I've recently started playing dominions 6, it's fantastic and runs on every potato. It's probably a lil too expensive for owners of low spec machines, but the previous in the series are great too!

@philholm9017 5 ай бұрын

not really a hidden gem, or an indie, but one of the best low end game i played last year was Elder Scrolls Oblivion. I did not expect it to run at 60 fps on my over 10 year old laptop's intel HD 4000 (i had to turn off grass & bloom tho). I only played it because my gpu died and had literally nothing to play, but it turned out to be one my of the best decisions ever. I feel like people forget how there are many old PC games that run well on low end and have aged quite well, Batman Arkham city, Bioshock, Stalker, Fallout 3 and new vegas, the older hitman games, prototype probably some more than arent coming to my head rn

@smudgey5000 5 ай бұрын

That's funny because even high end rigs have trouble with that due to it being poorly optimized for anything over 2 cores. I assume GOG version or no mods?

@Quasartist 5 ай бұрын

I love the sentiment, but after having Fallout New Vegas corrupt my save 4 different times, 3 of which had a boatload of stability mods installed from Vortex which is supposedly the best one, I gotta call cap lol. But I can attest to Batman being a good decision, I can nearly max out the settings with my rig which was beefy when I made it but now considered a budget build.

@soudi1684 5 ай бұрын

oblivion is such a gem! also morrowind is another gem, more difficult to play but worth it

@lordbezzington8435 5 ай бұрын

I've been replaying it on the steam deck, for the most part it's been running silky smooth, but certain oblivion gates tank it to 30 fps?

@soudi1684 5 ай бұрын

i don't have issues with oblivion on steam deck, do you have certain settngs turn on ? battery savers, certain hz refresh rate ? the problems are the controller schema on steam deck @@lordbezzington8435

@sevenape 5 ай бұрын

Yeah! More videos like this! Thank you!!

@andybaldz 5 ай бұрын

Great video, can't wait to see more low specs hidden gems!

@crystal_is_cozy 5 ай бұрын

I love that Inmost got two cameos ❤❤ can’t wait for the next one in this series

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

OH, I wanted to tell you something about that! When I started up the game I thought the RGB on my computer was broken because all the lights went out. Then when the game started the RGB started glowing pale blue. When the lightning in the game stuck the RGB lit up white. The game was controlling the RGB! And I didn't even have any fancy RGB software or anything, it just did it on its own! I thought to myself "I gotta tell Crystal". Glad you reminded me :P

@crystal_is_cozy 5 ай бұрын

That sounds like an RGB haunting! Amazing~ @@TechDweeb

@one2sri 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant content as always 🙌🏽

@paulocoelho55 5 ай бұрын

Love the vid, man! Loads of good games to play on my SD.

@geerhead 5 ай бұрын

You been on fire this year. Keep up the good work. Always enjoy me sum tech dweeb. And sum rootbeer

@lloydmilton9808 5 ай бұрын

Thanks again, Mr. Dweeb, I absolutely love your Hidden Gems series! There always seems to be one game from your list that I've played and several others that I add to my list of future titles. You reminded me that I really need to go back and finish Axiom Verge and add Bot Vice to my list. There was a Contra-like game in your opening and closing montage, with the protagonist running up a diagonal platform. Do you remember the name of that title? I kinda suck at the genre, but I always have 1 - 3 on my system as they are great for on-the-go gaming. One of my recent 'Low-spec' faves is, UnMetal. The humor might not stick as well if you hadn't played the Metal Gear series but I often had to stifle laughter late at night when playing it in bed. You can pick it up on most current-gen consoles, but I played it on the Deck.

@JGPoindexter 2 ай бұрын

You are a really solid content creator. I appreciate your work!

@TechDweeb 2 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy!

@signe_stilett 5 ай бұрын

One of my favourite low spec games is Nova Drift. Top-down view roguelite with a LOT of player control over the run and very satisfying synergies leading to both high run variety and low frustration at RNG. Runs are about an hour, depending on skill level, and there is a gameplay modifier to jump into lategame with a stock of upgrades

@adinwalls 5 ай бұрын

Really nice shareable content. I love your focus on great artwork.

@jam4madttm 4 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you for making the subscription monologue at the end of the video and only very short. This is a really good video and there’s at least two games on here maybe three but I’m gonna check out. Oh man she got old. Oh yeah

@stirfry7987 5 ай бұрын

I love this video. I just know that I had to subscribe. More power to you.

@grimmpickins2559 5 ай бұрын

Need to hear about what RPGs/cRPGs you like in this low spec world - and, yeah, I realize some of them might be obvious, LOL. I find myself, albeit my current nowadays self, wanting immersion over graphics - I still enjoy old emulated classics (Ultima, Bard's Tale) - but I have poked at the new enhanced nostalgia with a lot of interest. Skald looks like a very, very good contender for me personally. Love this new look at low spec hidden gems, Mr. Dweeb! Keep it up!

@davidtharp2125 5 ай бұрын

Checking for your content excites me.

@Colcalebcat 5 ай бұрын

I love this series of gems and a little gameplay so much

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

More on the way!

@faizrizqi5200 5 ай бұрын

Please keep doing low spec games videos like this

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

More to come!

@geoffreyjohnstone5465 5 ай бұрын

With the recent influx of hanheld gaming machines, these games become even more relevant. I love the look of Bot Vice and went to have a look for it on Steam only to discover I already owned it. I imagine it was a game I got when purchasing Fanatical Mystery Bundles. Looking forward to seeing more like this in the series

@raymartecoto8389 5 ай бұрын

This is great make more of this sir !

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Will do!

@Manwe_SandS 4 ай бұрын

that Arkanoid-like game looks great, it would be nice to hear more about it

@chaquetero-kun77 5 ай бұрын

gotta love the magic in this kind of games

@GIJosep 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this list! I love SHMUPS ever since I played Gradius III on SNES. Currently been playing a lot of Dave the Diver, Vampire Survivors, and Hades on the Steam Deck. Just find myself always wanting to play these low spec type of games over the big AAA titles. Once I can get a nice emulation setup (arcade?) with everything from before the current generation, I think I'd be pretty content.

@ZwickTheEditor 5 ай бұрын

If you want to game like Post Void that's not angry at your eyeballs I highly recommend checking out the demo for Mullet Mad Jack in February.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Will do 👍

@f1reb4ll77 4 ай бұрын

Nah, Mullet Mad Jack is a modern touch on Neo Geo's Super Spy, nothing from Post Void in in it

@SadTown99 3 ай бұрын

Anyone know what the actual name of the art style “ Post Void “ is called? .. I been seeing that early DOOM-like 2D/3D paper style a lot more lately

@dynaelder5037 3 ай бұрын

I love the way you present your vids. Shame you don't make more.

@brajanubgan88 5 ай бұрын

When it comes to Metroidvania games I can't recommend enough Blasphemous, great gory artstyle, gorgeous level design, awesome music, 10/10 in my opinion with bonus point for working on low spec hardware

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

That's already in my library for some reason. I'll install it and give it a go!

@ooferrell 5 ай бұрын

Blasphemous isn't one of those low spec games tho.... it wouldn't run on my old pc that had 4 gbs of ram . I could run postal 2 and half-life tho

@thechampagneroom1 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. It's 75% off now too, I will pick it up

@sevbait 5 ай бұрын

I sold my GTX 1080 when the prices were sky high during the pandemic, and used I5-8600K's integrated graphics to play some low spec games for 10 months til' I could bag a 3070 FE for retail price. Here are a few that you reminded me of with your list: Death Road To Canada - for the roguelike pixel action game with choose your own adventure style stuff. You choose your crew and can get and maintain vehicles as you travel north to escape into Canada from the zombie apocalypse. A Short Hike - played this one since it was on Game Pass and really enjoyed it. It's really relaxing and charming, and was fun without being too long. Endless Sky - for space action and shooting sim that reminds me of the old days growing up with Escape Velocity and EV: Nova. This one is straight up free.

@svenwort2055 5 ай бұрын

But want to emphatize again, I´m really looking forward to more of those recommendation! Thank you :)

@PolybiusArcadia 5 ай бұрын

Glad someone else is talking about Jamestown

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

SO GOOD

@olivermirez6667 5 ай бұрын

Oh, the british and spaniard colonization of mars, always my favorite topic in history class. 🤓

@MarcoLoves360gamer 5 ай бұрын

Ideal for my laptop on holidays 😊

@deadWu 5 ай бұрын

Killer list, honestly... Been playing ona a Thinkpad X220 until recently so games like these are my bread and butter: some of them I've never seen, so thank you!

@KenjiUmino 4 ай бұрын

the X220 can do more than THAT ... I have one with a mobile i5 and I've been playing resident evil 5 and 6 at 30fps-ish on that poor thing.

@deadWu 4 ай бұрын

@@KenjiUmino I know it can, I don't know if it should...

@deadfred69 5 ай бұрын

Ok now I want to play Axiom Verge! I just got the Ayaneo Slide so this would be a great game for testing for my review.

@divyaakashdutta4038 5 ай бұрын

Can you recommend a few more games like Teleglitch? Something that's low spec but has a modern vibe to it.

@Nobody_256.-qj3kd 4 ай бұрын

The chaos happening in 10:05 makes me remember when I played Air Assault 2

@davidjacobo5637 5 ай бұрын

I don't know if its a low spec game, but one of my favorites is enter the gungeon, the synergies, combat, style, and humor keep me coming back to it.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, that's an amazing game!

@poohbear4702 2 ай бұрын

I tried Bot Vice because of this. It's a lot of fun. Eventually I got stuck, because I stink at games. But it was still fun.

@fmaylinch 5 ай бұрын

9:20 DYA games are so good... I loved Strikey sisters, and I'm enjoying Evil tonight very much.

@spaceturd64 5 ай бұрын

Two games I recommend for being low spec is Retro City Rampage and Shakedown Hawaii

@porkopio9468 5 ай бұрын

Added more into my wishlist! Do more like this for us potato gamers lol

@VRBug 5 ай бұрын

Nice video ❤ lol totally a true story 😂

@sergeantsilly5239 4 ай бұрын

Not a low spec gamer, just here to find more games to play

@Tetrastuctural_Intelligence 5 ай бұрын

That gameplay footage of Post Void is was quite the trip! Holy moly dude!. I think this is the first time in over 35 years of gaming that watching someone play a game made my body so upset and nauseous. I would hope that it’s a different experience when actually playing it.

@ooferrell 5 ай бұрын

It will be I own it and it's more like a run and gun. So when u die u get a runtime and restart the entire game .

@gregorypetka8799 5 ай бұрын

Love watching your vids, i tried a batocera setup, but i could never get it to boot on a modern pc, hopefully you do a few Emulator setups, if you can, i have many on windows, but nothing setup like batocera or a few of the others or arcade setups. seem very tricky to boot straight into a setup

@KenjiUmino 4 ай бұрын

have you tried lakka ? It's the most barebones emulator distro but worked best for me on everything I threw it on.

@legendodinson7082 5 ай бұрын

I remember teleglitch. Long times since I played it. Came out a while ago. Good game.

@ogrejd 5 ай бұрын

I want to like Teleglitch (and have had it for many years now), but the constant zooming in and out and blackness-of-war shifting around so fast just ends up disorienting me and giving me a bit of a headache after too long. :( [think I said this before when I noticed it in a shot of your Steam list :P] edit: Yeah, I can't watch this part of the video fullscreen. And even when not fullscreen and with a lot of static web page around it, I can feel it. :( edit 2: Jamestown is excellent, yes. I suck at it, though. However, Francisco Cerda's soundtrack is freakin' awesome.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

There's a graphical setting in Teleglitch to get rid of the rotating and the zoom and the lights. Maybe that'd help you out?

@pandabearmadness6263 5 ай бұрын

Just curious did you plan on getting the onexgpu I'm excited for that

@justsomebody-1665 5 ай бұрын

I highly recommend Infernax for this category of games. I couldnt get enough of it! Also, Ocean's Heart and Astalon were good. Play-on-a-potato JRPGs I'd recommend are Shadows of Adam and Rise of the Third Power. Very nostalgic for me since i was a big Final Fantasy guy in the SNES days.

@3liisdabomdiggitydaw 4 ай бұрын

Based on your taste in games, I've gotta recommend Picayune Dreams. Definitely one of the more inventive Vampire Survivors-likes, the art style and music is incredible.

@pierre1509 5 ай бұрын

Teleglitch looks awesome !

@Micromation 5 ай бұрын

My brother in Christ... StarSector. It's the best space game ever made and it runs on a toaster. It's an actual game and not these throwbacks to times when games were made simple. Low graphical requirements do not equate simplistic gameplay.

@mehdiforoutani 4 ай бұрын

one of the best low spec games that i've played recently is the "Kingdom" series. the kingdom: classic is actually free on steam and it's gorgeous pixel art as well

@broinasvalentin1727 5 ай бұрын

Hello, for a future episode you could check out also Graveyard Keeper, it has good pixelart, an amazing soundtrack, very good leveling upnsystem with complex skilltree, it is like a darker version of Stardew Valley, it also has an amazing story with several DLC's that just add new layers to the storry adding back storyes to sidecharacters.

@mikekollin4271 3 күн бұрын

Hey, thanks for the recommendation. what are the 3 Games in intro outro called?

@SirMuddyToast 5 ай бұрын

Nice video and interested to see the follow ups as some of those clips of the 'unmentioned' look awesome. Since these will technically run on a potato do you think there are any that might run on something like Winlator on a Android handheld?

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

There is a good chance they will! I haven't played around with Winlator much but it's a very promising avenue for future PC gaming on the go.

@SirMuddyToast 5 ай бұрын

@@TechDweeb I've not delved into Windows on Android yet either but these might be a good thing to dip my toe in with. Thanks!

@hill2hell 5 ай бұрын

Do you need a big beefy PC to run? Gamers: NO. Developers: Yes, we're too lazy to optimize it so just buy a new pc. Manufacturers: Yes, otherwise our planned obselesence model won't work.

@RetroCrisis 5 ай бұрын

I generally prefer these types of games over AAA titles. Thanks for sharing them

@thomascouch4864 5 ай бұрын

I think I got a DRM free copy of Jamestown with the humble bundle. One of my favorite shmups.

@anaskhalid7906 5 ай бұрын

great list for steamdeck

@deaddrummerkid 4 ай бұрын

Although not as "pixelated" as the rest of the games you showed, or an indie title, I would love to see Civ V in this series somewhere. That game runs on my 2011 mac pro laptop and is a strategy GEM.

@KovanNova 5 ай бұрын

Ayo post void actually looks pretty fun. And it basically costs nothing on steam?! Bruh thank you for this video!

@estebanzap7 5 ай бұрын

Tech dweeb! I have a question, would tou make(are you planning) on doing a video on how to install GAMMA OS on the RG405V? 🥺🙏

@Cloud28693 5 ай бұрын

I need a "freaking awesome storyline low spec pc games hidden gems" 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

@yevanasvetya5486 5 ай бұрын

I feel you should mention BattleBit remantered. That gme can be tune down so much it can run in a office laptop.

@cerradobricks4017 5 ай бұрын

Bot Vice is a very good game! Last boss is super tough, though. Took me several tries to beat that bastard.

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

I haven't even beat it yet! I started on the swtich, but then I rebought it and am playing through on the PC. I'm pretty sure I'm near the end now.

@raganx7108 5 ай бұрын

Have you seen the new "AYA NEO SLIDE" it comes in black and orange and White and orange. The orange on the white one is a bit darker than i usually like but i think a keyboard is whats missing from a lot of these portable gaming computers, but the prices are almost rivaling Laptops.

@RaulChis 5 ай бұрын

More of this pls

@dreamspheree 2 ай бұрын

I Wish they worked on my miyoo mini plus... damn you. you spark something in me from the april fool day. now i dream of something i didnt knew i wanted

@gumiho.c 5 ай бұрын

You should check out steel assault, definitely checks out the looking good criteria

@TechDweeb 5 ай бұрын

Will do!

@evickaklierova3107 4 ай бұрын

Not a very hidden gem, but I suggest everyone TES 3: Morrowind. Really a beautiful game with lots of possibilities and a great story. Same for Fallout 2. I could play it forever again, and again.