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so sometimes I'd like to venture out of my game room to play games. Obviously it's easy enough to do this with Android games on my tablet. But I'm curious about PC game recommendations for stuff that's easy to play with keyboard only on a laptop. I don't find the trackpad especially comfortable for gaming as opposed to using a mouse. And of course I could use a controller (and I do for certain games). I just thought a discussion of games that can be (comfortably) using just a keyboard.

Typing Of The Dead is the obvious one that comes to mind, haha.

Most games made before 1986?

You should play Ultima.

ha! I was waiting to see if you or Ack would suggest the Ultima games first.

If I play any Ultima game in the near future, I'd probably re-attempt IV and try to actually stick with it this time.

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Or play Zork and a couple other iconic ones and move on.

Star Control 2, and its spiritual predecessors the Starflight games. Star Control 2 is available for free as the Ur-Quan Masters source port of the 3DO release.

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

SSI Gold Box games work best with keyboard.

Typing of the dead of course.

samsonlonghair wrote:Typing of the dead of course.

re-read the OP, homey.

marurun wrote:SSI Gold Box games work best with keyboard.

Oh man, this is a good thought. Thank you!

MrPopo wrote:Star Control 2, and its spiritual predecessors the Starflight games. Star Control 2 is available for free as the Ur-Quan Masters source port of the 3DO release.

Will be playing this version for TR later in the year, but good to know I have the option to do so on my laptop if I so desire.

Exhuminator wrote:http://store.steampowered.com/app/292500/

does look do-able. I mean I cut my teeth on Spelunky on this little Alienware laptop. So why not? (Although I would probably just use a controller )