Don’t want to make a wall of text again so here is the link to what I recommended in another post here in [email protected]: https://lemmy.world/comment/92531

There are also games sold/distributed only as ROMs you can run on emulators, if you’d be interested too.

I’m seldom picky about what I play. So, by extension, expect to see little to no consistency in what I’d recommend:

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8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure
A Vampyre Story
ABZÛ
Atari Vault
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extended
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Bunny Swordmaster Story
Catherine Classic
Celeste
Celeste Classic
Celeste Classic 2
Child of Light
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry HD Collection
Downwell
Dreaming Sarah
Dusk Child
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Etherborn
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Grey-Box Testing
GundeadliGne
Gundemonium Recollection
Hitogata Happa
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition
Ittle Dew
Kimmy
Kitsune Zero
Knight Club
LiEat
Mary Skelter 2 & Mary Skelter: Nightmares (revamped & retconed version; included as an unlockable in Mary Skelter 2)
Mary Skelter: Nightmares (OG version; still being sold)
Metal Slug
Metal Slug 3
Micro Mages
Minecraft
Minoria
Mobile Light Force (aka Gunbird)
Moero Chronicle
Momodora
Momodora II
Momodora III
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Okami
One Strike
Phoenotopia (Adobe Flash version; didn’t play the remake yet)
Portal
Rabi-Ribi
Remember Me
Riddled Corpses
Saints Row: The Third
Senran Kagura Bon Appétit
Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Slay the Spire
Slipways Classic
Songs for a Hero: Definitive Edition (“A Lenda do Herói - Edição Definitiva” in its Portuguese name)
Starbound
Super Dungeon Boy
Tanglewood
The Corruption Within
The Deed
Unparallel
Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Wake Up
Wishing Sarah
Wonder Boy in Monster World | Wonder Boy V: Monster World III
World of Final Fantasy
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A Vampyre Story worked nice on Wine on an old computer with Mint Xfce when I played it last year. Only had to set Wine as windowed full screen, since the game got issues when alt-tabbing. Also worth noting it requires DirectX on Windows, so you’ll have to use DXVK.

Haven’t seen any PICO-8 games lag on Linux, and both Celeste Classic games were released on PICO-8.

Dust: An Elysian Tail might be playable, bar maybe two areas (one mandatory) that have a lot going on.

Slay the Spire should run fine, but I had to sideload an older version of OpenJDK to get it working (maybe 8 or 11; don’t remember which exactly).

Songs for A Hero also seems to run fine.

Tanglewood is a Mega Drive homebrew, so should be playable on any emulators your PC can run.

Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action also runs fine.

Böbl and Nix: The Paradox Relic should both run fine on NES emulators.

Mint 21.1 Xfce, and if Android counts, ArrowOS 13 (on phone) and BlissOS (on an old computer)