Currently enjoying some normie fun with Deep Rock Galactic.

A cooperative game of mining expeditions on a bug-infested planet, with metaprogression.

You can play solo and offline too, with a flying drone to help you out, and offline progression of your characters counts.

More fun multi though.

Four classes with different guns and special gear. All have a pickaxe, flares and grenades with different effects ( one goes boom, one is a bait for bugs, etc )

Gunner has, well, big guns, but also a zip-line everyone can hop on to cross pits and big special shield that keeps the bugs out for several precious seconds.

Scout has a grappling hook and a mega flare to light the big caverns ( light is very important ).

Engeneer can shoot ''cheeze platforms'' and put-down an automatic turret ( two with meta progression). One of his weapons is a tiny bazooka, very fun to shoot. bugs splatter nicely.

Driller has, guess... a drill that can munch paths into the rock. Extremely useful to dig a ramp towards a fellow Dwarf who fell to his death down a pit... ( a down ally can be rescued ). Or to dig a shortcut towards the extraction pod about to leave the planet when mission is complete.

etc.

Many different mission types.

Very fun cooperation strategies. Takes a few games to get used to the hotkeys, moving, grabbing, mining, but people are either nice and helpful, or indifferent to newbies.

Text chat is fine. There is voice chat for convinience in the heat of action and busy fingers.

Some basic manners : don't take more than one pack per ressuply drop. Don't call the extraction pod without asking, especially if the secondary objective isn't finished, or a bug swarm is still going.

Another game : Colony building and water-management with... beavers.

Timberborn. Lots of fun if you like colony building survival. The most original spin on the genre in a long while. The game is still getting big content updates as it is in Early Access. The tutorial is straighforward enough to dive in.

Watch out for the drought season. If you didn't build a damn to keep some water ( that slowly evaporates ), and stored enough in tanks, your colony will go extinct from thirst and failed crops.

And you have to replant the slow-growing trees with a forester ( unlocked with research ) or you'll screw your progression by ressource depleation.

You can fall back on a save to avoid losing your whole colony to an unexpectedly long drought by... culling your population.

The more you pamper your beavers, the faster they work, walk and breed. Lots of hours of fun.

Both games I mentionned can run on a mid-range laptop with integrated graphics and 8GB ram.

(I could even run a small map of Timberborn on my old potato laptop before buying a better one.)