Gaming

The Shadowrun games from Harebrained Schemes are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and they all have native Linux versions. Daggerfall's my favourite, but all three are good.

Do you like ARPGs? Titan Quest is a Greek mythology themed Diablo II clone that has some nice improvements over D2. It's usually pretty cheap on Steam.

Brotato has very modest system requirements and kind has some elements of a micro arpg if you squint. I haven't tried vampire survivors on my low end system yet, but I'm hopeful it has similar system requirements as it has a similar sort game style.

Garry's Mod, Super Tux Kart

Here you can find a bunch free software RPGs: https://libregamewiki.org/Role-playing_games

Also you can install MAME and download like 5000 arcade games from the 70, 80, 90, 2000.

Not exactly text based, but the old sierra style games are still a blast to play. Leisure Suit Larry, Maniac Mansion, Thimbleweed Park. They sure don't need many resources to play.

Mount and blade: Warband

Its on Steam

With the blackout, I see the Gaming community will be assimilated into the LinuxGaming community and I'm here for it.

https://r-roms.github.io/megathread/sony/ I found this absolute treasure trove of roms if you want. well I was waiting for my main gaming pc to be shipped I pretty much lived off old ps2 games like ratchet and clank 2

Tunic is a cute little old-zelda-like. It's 3d, but very simple and has run on my steamdeck better than most things.

Battle for Wesnoth: open source turn based strategy rpg.

Dark Souls Remastered should run just fine, one of the greatest games ever. Also make sure you play it with a controller!

Not sure if it’s your cup, but A Short Hike is a very relaxing and wholesome game

While it may not exactly match up with the body of your message, I think this would fit the subject line rather well:

Dwarf Fortress

The stalker series has some of the best gunplay of any low-end system game I've seen.

If you like Pokemon like games, take a look at Cassette Beasts! Very charming game!

hotline Miami, katana zero, osu.

Cave Story is good / hectic / hard platformer. I might be wrong but I think it was made for Linux first

Also, if you install RetroArch, you can play all the emulated systems.

Starsector. Sseth has a really good review of the game.

Stronghold Crusaders, or Command and Conquer.

Nostalgic childhood games.

Maybe a game like terraria? It's a native linux game and hella fun!

Or if you want a more chill game maybe something like Gris? It has a gold rating on ProtonDB so should work fine. Gives u the feels too which is a bonus.

Not an answer to your question but when you say " I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim" do you mean that the battery drains while plugged in or that you are mainly playing while not plugged in and your battery life is really short.

If it is the former then you might just need to buy a higher wattage power adapter to sustain. The power draw.

caves of qud is quite good, its tile based roguelike.

I quite like Mindustry, it's FOSS and on Android too, it is in most repositories/appstores

If you install ScummVM you can play most of the Lucasarts titles. All of these games are top tier (Monkey Island, day of the Tentacle etc) and you would enjoy!