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database - System Design for low latency reliable online chess game - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
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BEST FREE LOW END GAMES :: Off Topic
Main Post: BEST FREE LOW END GAMES :: Off Topic
Low attention games you can play on the side?
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I'm someone who loves multitasking, often while I'm doing something I've got a youtube video or a game going on on the side. This ranges from Runescape to Hearthstone, the thing they have in common is that they don't need a lot of attention to play. I usually have them open when I'm working on something, it's like a nice micro break every minute or so, just for a few seconds. How ever I've played Runescape and Hearthstone for a long while now and I'm trying to expand my passive gaming library.
So what games which don't require much attention do you guys play on the side?
Top Comment: Into The Breech! It can be played mouse-only, it is a turn-based strategy game, it's single player only, and it has Perfect Information (meaning you will always know the exact outcome of a unit's action, no RNG). It is also quite challenging, excellent theming, and a ton of depth. I play it while taking care of my 10 month old son (who is also a massive wiggleworm) and watching youtube/netflix shows.
I cannot enjoy low interaction games but I kinda wish I could : boardgames
Main Post: I cannot enjoy low interaction games but I kinda wish I could : boardgames
Is it normal for my Itch.io games CTR to be so low?
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I released a game 3 days ago, and it started off by having a CTR of around 3-4 percent, but now it only has 0.83. It has 33.1k impressions in the last 7 days. Is it normal for the CTR to go down this quickly, or am I donig something wrong.
Top Comment: I have some marketing / e-commerce background.Hard to be helpful without knowing more. If it’s going down quickly it might be an indication of your current reach topping out: unique customers may be receiving multiple impressions. You can try adjusting your tags and meta data, or test improved marketing materials, and do outreach to drive more traffic.
Need a singleplayer RPG(ish) game for low end laptop
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A game where i have my own character but i can go out gather stuff and build my own community of NPCs kinda like a small city/fort and defend it from outer threats and do quests. Pixel graphics are out of question i just cant deal with those it hurts my eyes, closest game ive seen to what i described is Valheim. My specs are AMD VEGA 8 integrtated 2gb, ryzen 5 3500U and 12gb RAM LAPTOP
Top Comment: Kenshi. You can build a squad of NPCs, gather resources, build a fort in the wilderness, and defend it from numerous threats. Works great on low end machines, there's no vram requirement and you only need 6gb ram.
Optimization in video games is at an all time low
Main Post: Optimization in video games is at an all time low
Top Comment: xbox 360/ps3 era was worse a lot of features that we take for granted now like anti-aliasing and raw mouse input were totally absent from many pc ports
Any Metroidvania games in a realistic (non-/low-fantasy) setting?
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Hi, does anyone know of any existing or upcoming Metroidvania games that are set in a rather realistic (non-/low-fantasy) setting, like post-apocalypse cities/landscapes, 80s retro small-town or GTA-like cityscapes, or even realistic medieval settings or the likes?
Would LOVE to hear your recommendations!
Top Comment: Shadow Complex is set modern day
Best Low-End PC Games of 2025: Play on Intel i7 with 4GB RAM No GPU
Main Post: Best Low-End PC Games of 2025: Play on Intel i7 with 4GB RAM No GPU
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I wish more games had FragPunk's optimization
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FragPunk is a good example of a game where you can scale down the graphics to run it on a potato while still retaining its art-style and visual impact. I have quite a bad graphic card (GeForce GTX 950. 2GB VRAM), yet I was able to play about anything up to 2020 just by setting stuff to medium-low, but in the last 5 years something happened, way too many games that aren't even remotely optimized got released without there being a justifiable difference in graphics or complexity to justify the difference with the games I'ms till able to play.
The clearly lazy path imo is when you turning DLSS, TAA, etc... off completely butchers the game graphics in exchange of like 10 FPS. There's stuff that makes me feel like it's not built with the player turning down graphics in mind, to make an example: Marvel Rivals was unplayable for me, not only I would do like less than 15 FPS with everything on low and resolution set to 720p, but when I turned off TAA, hairs or fur became a mess of dithering. It was also very weird like... in the best case scenario, lowering some settings would grant me 5 more frames, in the worst I'd lose some.
I also noticed that I mostly have issues with games made in unreal engine, it feels like people simply turn on all the cool features without properly implementing them.
This is FragPunk with the lowest possible graphic settings (no DLSS):I never go lower than 60 FPS (70+ on average) on 1080p and, while textures are clearly low res, the game still visually looks fine. I just feel like there's too big of a gap between this and stuff like Marvel Rivals for it to be justifiable.
Then we have stuff like Monster Hunter Wilds, which gave issues to friends of mine who don't even have bad hardware. I do genuinely think we can ask for more optimization and that it would benefit ANY player, regardless of the hardware.
Top Comment: While I do agree with your sentiment that games need to be better optimized. I don't think they should be optimized around making them work on a 10 year old budget card. That's just far too limiting in my opinion.