For my machine, a Dell Dimension E520 with a Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 3.07 GB RAM, and an nVidia GeForce 8400 GS, what would be good platformers or puzzle games, considering the last timed I tried to find any, I turned out with only one good one, that being Portal 1.
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Your machine is well past the era of the great PC puzzle and platform games (ask if you want some recommendations for those as well), but I will recommend one that may be a bit of a hidden gem and also is a bit of both...
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Oh are we talking 3d puzzle games? Portal was the first of its kind. But if we are talking 2d, I remember playing "Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords" maybe 20 years ago. It was cool. it should run I suppose.
I enjoy Boppin. It has good graphics and usual game music and plot: you have to free all the monsters hidden in blocks by throwing other blocks.
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I recommend you try www.dosgamesarchive.com. It has a lot of good games. BTW, I also like Duke Nukem 1 and 2, the Keen series, Jazz Jackrabbit and Alien Carnage.
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...and Jill of the Jungle.
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Rayman.
I already tried Rayman, but setting up dosbox-x to play rayman because 95 compatibility on XP sucks for dos games. Rayman 2 also hates when I try and get it to work. And 2D puzzle games (e.g. Microsoft Cheese Terminator) work too, I just prefer not wrestling with Windows just to play puzzle game that might not be good. I did try stuff like Jersey Devil, which is a good platformer, if a little buggy. And Donald Duck: Going Qu@ckers wouldn't work either. Same with SADX 2004. Suggest what you want, and I'll try it.
That's not really a 2D gaming machine. It's squarely in the realm of the 3D FPS era.
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Puzzle genre kinda spun off into walmart grandma games by then. Which can be diverting, but nobody seems to review them, can probably find a handful at thrifts though.
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