I'm just curious what games are good to play on a laptop, with just the keyboard, aside from text adventures (such as Zork)

Most GOG games can run well in laptop since they are old games. I bet even the Asus EEE PC can run them well. Also they also used to be keyboard only game right?

Speaking from personal experience, you ought to be good with any of these games (IIRC no mouse required for any of them):
Secret Agent
Stargunner
Hocus Pocus
Realms of Chaos
Dangerous Dave Pack
Catacombs Pack
Blake Stone games (if you play them using the original control scheme)
Treasure Adventure Game
Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret
Ultima 1+2+3+4
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Alone in the Dark 1+2+3
Star Control 1+2
Starflight 1+2
The Chaos Engine
Time Commando
Little Big Adventure 1 + 2
Balls of Steel
Earthworm Jim 1+2
Tyrian 2000
Mutant Mudds
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Duke Nukem 1+2
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Screamer
Ittle Dew
Escape Goat
Guilty Gear games
Fez
Evoland

Laptops keyboards tend to be pretty awful though. I'd stay away from difficult action oriented games.

Edit List above is a good one. You can add Rogue Legacy too, pretty sure you don't need a mouse for it.

I just hope you have a good, comfortable keyboard if you plan on gaming on your laptop for extended periods of time.

There's a easy way out though. We can always plug normal USB keyboard and use them.

i uses laptop to play every single game, so to me most games works perfect on laptop, unless its a bad port or requires num pad

The keyboard on this laptop is decent, as it is a full size with 10 key. The touch pad sucks, and I can't use a mouse in my laptop, and I just can't use trackballs at all. Awesome, list, thank you!

... ok I forgot to mark this as a question :( There are a lot which are not "no mouse" friendly My main issue, is no mouse


Thanks for all the help everyone

Add VVVVVV to that list.

Alpha Centauri? Not sure I'd mention it if you didn't have a NumPad, but you do.

Any particular reason why you can't use a mouse with that rig?

There are a lot of games which require a mouse, but don't need any quick movements with it, if you just have a track pad. Any turn based games, for a start.

LSL!