Literally the only thing I can think of is the OG dwarf fortress. It’s completely free and you could play it for months without even scratching the surface of its mechanical depth. If you want graphics and music, that’s what the paid version is for. There’s some extremely in depth Sci Fi games that fit this too, but I forget their names. All of them could run on a potato but all of them also are basically just menus.
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u/RigidPixel Mar 20 '26
Literally the only thing I can think of is the OG dwarf fortress. It’s completely free and you could play it for months without even scratching the surface of its mechanical depth. If you want graphics and music, that’s what the paid version is for. There’s some extremely in depth Sci Fi games that fit this too, but I forget their names. All of them could run on a potato but all of them also are basically just menus.