Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2

Portal 2
rain world?

Even 2016 and Eternal have pretty moderate requirements for their fidelity.
Arguably, 2016 and Eternal prove it much better than the original - people nowadays are way too spoilt to really appreciate those early 3D graphics, and IMO early 3D graphics aged much worse than pixel art.
Also came here to say Doom. But can it (a potato) run Doom? Even if not, someone almost certainly will have tried and partially succeeded.
ps: And no other game listed in this topic can claim this
Probably Gris
Minecraft
Also Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.
But I think the real issue is "looks good" is very subjective.
Mario Sunshine
StarCraft and WarCraft series.
A lot of older 2d games can run on a portrait potato and the artwork holds up excellently.
RC2, civ 3, Anno 1602, sim city 3000, AOE2.
lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc
Super Nintendo-era pixel graphics games like Chrono Trigger. Pixel graphics need a lot less computational power to look good IMO.
Similar for modern pixel graphics games like Risk of Rain.
I play classic wow private servers. Game came out in like 2005 so it'll run on whatever. The graphics are minimal and stylized to in a way that makes it timeless. Plugging wow-hc.com
Tloz minish cap
Donkey kong country 1,2,3
Super mario world
Painkiller, 2002(?)
TitanFall 2.
Metal Gear Solid V.
... maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.
Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?
Looking good is about artstyle more than realistic graphics for me so most pixelart games.
dwarf fortress
Its world generation will absolutely roast your potato.
Warframe. They got it running on mobile, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. I myself ran it for a few years on a shitty graphics card that could barely run minecraft with a texture pack.
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