PC offers by far the most varied gaming library in the industry. While associated with raw graphical power due to the ever-growing capabilities of GPUs and CPUs, major AAA projects that need fairly modern hardware are merely a drop in the bucket. Each week, Steam and the Epic Games Store welcome dozens of great low-end PC games, ensuring players with older systems or non-gaming laptops always have something to look forward to.

Furthermore, patient players can turn to decades of AAA games that are accessible nowadays, with most running at near-perfect quality on modern low-spec PCs. As there are thousands of options available, picking out a few of the best PC games for low-end PCs can be quite challenging. As such, let's highlight a few of them.

Updated February 14, 2025 by Mark Sammut: Galleries have been added for every low-spec PC game mentioned in this article. Also, a January 2025 release has been introduced as a recommendation.

What Constitutes A Low-Spec Game?

The definition of "low-spec" varies from person to person. For some folks, a desktop with a GTX 1050ti and a 9th gen CPU would qualify; meanwhile, for others, low-spec means a non-gaming laptop that does not have a dedicated graphics card. Consequently, each game's minimum requirements will be included to provide some guidance, and the definition of "low-spec" will be treated as flexible.

Systemrequirementslab is a useful resource to check whether a computer can run a game.

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