Stellaris, CK2, and probably some other paradox games. Lategame Stellaris starts to get pretty slow on largest world tho

Zomboid

Sid Meier’s Pirates

Seconding ones that appear to have been already been mentioned:

Slay the Spire

Balatro

Terraria

Stardew Valley

MTGA

FTL

OG fallout games

FTL has got me addicted recently, it’s also on sale on steam (or was 2 days ago at least)

here’s the master list: https://pastebin.com/MTCXZxCN

You should look up exactly what integrated graphics you have. Sometimes this can be difficult, because they’ll list it as something vague like “AMD graphics”

But if you can find it that would help. Integrated graphics have come a long way in the last 5 or so years. Could be a big difference.

DOOM wads! Super easy to run GZDoom and some full-ass games made by people. Also, Caves of Qud! And I love Morrowind, Fallout, etc.

I wonder how much Noita you could get away with.

Otherwise, the roguelite genre has a lot of games to choose from. Spelunky, Gungeon, Hades, Balatro, FTL, One Step From Eden, etc. If you have a particularly old computer then more old school roguelikes like Caves of Qud, Crawl, Cogmind (very hard to get into).

Slay the Princess

Monster Train was a good time on my celeron chromebook running linux

Morrowind on OpenMW ran decently

I was able to emulate most things less demanding than Gamecube as well

Dwarf Fortress, CataclysmDDA, FTL, Convoy are all in my top games list and all run on a potato

The Saboteur is a super fun game, I feel like i don’t hear enough people talk about it

My fav games that havent been mentioned yet and should work for you:

OpenRCT2 (Roller Coaster Tycoon)

Sid Meier’s Civilization III (and IV really but especially III)

Quake & Quake 2

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (and expansions)

Football Manager (only if you’re into football/sports ofc)

Without knowing your exact APU I’d wager you can probably emulate lot of great classic games maybe up until Gamecube/PS2. My specific recommendations would be playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Zelda: Majora’s Mask with the decompiled and rebuilt native C versions, can’t remember the name of the project at the moment but it should be easy to find on google. The original N64 versions are also well worth playing but after playing the recompiled windows versions with free camera and other quality of life hacks I’m not sure I could go back.

Stardew valley will run on a toaster

Deltarune

What chip do you have?

visual novels work very well on even toasters because they are basically slide shows.

old adventure games are also a blast and work very well, look into lucas arts and sierra online catalogues. a great starter could be sam and max or grim fandango.

you could also try N64 emulation. there’s a lot of good games on it and not demanding at all.

if you need something more sandboxy, rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon deluxe (or opentdd for the modern open source version, has multiplayer too with mod support) are great. apart from that, old civilization games and simcity are also great.

old real time strategies are also great. command and conquer series, stronghold series, age of empires 2, age of mythology, warcraft etc etc.

(help me folks im running out of genres)

basically either look into blasts from the past, or the indie scene. i recommend the former since although there’s a lot of great stuff in the indie scene, it all kinda gets samey due to the same tools being used and the limited resources available pushes people into certain genres. you can’t certainly beat the olden but golden ones on variety.

Path of Achra

Fields of Mistria (if you’ve played enough Stardew Valley)

Undertaledeltarune

Dwarf Fortress

Balatro (probably all you need for a while)

Factorio (on a more modern chip at least)

Slay the Spire

Terraria

FF 1-6 (emulated or the remakes)