Anybody have a recommendation for some PC games that don’t require a heavy duty rig? I only have Surface Pro 3 and a 6 and don’t want to go to buy a new rig.
Not a fan of shooters or sports games. RPGs are good for me.
If you have any affinity for war games, the original Panzer Corps (itself essentially a copy of the legendary Panzer General from way back) is one of those perfect games that's easy to pick up but hard to master. Very low PC demands, which also helps with battery life on a laptop.
Essentially it's Second World War in Europe, 2D, turn based on a hex map. The core challenge is the rock-paper-scissors combined arms nature of balancing armour, infantry and artillery, with air power and naval power also in the mix, and using terrain and cities to your advantage.
I don't like playing as the Germans, so I always play the Allied Corps expansion instead to make sure the good guys win. You can recruit British, American and Canadian core units that carry on and pick up experience as you go through a campaign, and there are other nationalities that join in various battles, including Free French, Norwegians, and, naturally, Poles (Cassino features in one of the battles, somewhere my Grandfather fought and Poles played a key role).
There's a much more complex and 3D (futuristic!) Panzer Corps 2, but I think it still only lets you play as the Nazis, so I haven't played it much. I seem to recall by adding a bunch of complexity, it lost the original magic.
