Newegg must really be desperate to get rid of those graphics cards now that GPU mining is useless.

  • @FuckBigTech347
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    72 years ago

    If you’re still interested in some video games there are always open source (FOSS) games to turn to.

    Here are a few from the top of my head:

    Minetest is a great one. I’ve spent way too many hours playing it. It can be similar to Minecraft, however Minetest by itself is just an engine. You have to install mods (which is relatively easy and can be done in-game) to basically make your own game. Think Garry’s Mod but with Voxel graphics.

    There is also Veloren which is a FOSS Cube World clone. Though this one does require decent graphics hardware to be playable. I have a Radeon RX 560 and that game makes that card rather toasty to say the least.

    Another one is 0 A.D. which is basically a FOSS clone of Age of Empires III that has been in constant development for over 20 years now I believe. Can be very addicting. Though it also requires a relatively beefy GPU. (which is understandable, because it looks really good on high settings)

    Here are some probably lesser known FOSS games that are less demanding in terms of resources but can still be pretty fun imo:

    Game Genre
    SuperTux 2D Platformer
    SuperTuxKart 3D Racing game
    Warzone 2100 Real time strategy
    MegaGlest Real time strategy
    Pingus 2D Lemmings Clone
    FreedroidRPG RPG in the spirit of the old Diablo or Fallout games
    Xonotic Arena style FPS
    FreeCiv Strategy game in the spirit of the Civilization games
    FreeCol Strategy game, clone of Sid Meier’s Colonization
    FreeOrion Turn based space game, inspired by Master of Orion
    Naev Space exploration

    There are probably more, but these are just some that I’m familiar with. If you’re on Linux or a BSD, just search the package repositories for “game” and see what comes up. That’s how I found a lot of these.