I'm proud of Lemmy today. 45 comments and not a single joke about OP's mom.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
41 points (93.6% liked)
PCGaming
6538 readers
116 users here now
Rule 0: Be civil
Rule #1: No spam, porn, or facilitating piracy
Rule #2: No advertisements
Rule #3: No memes, PCMR language, or low-effort posts/comments
Rule #4: No tech support or game help questions
Rule #5: No questions about building/buying computers, hardware, peripherals, furniture, etc.
Rule #6: No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
Rule #7: No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts
Rule #8: No off-topic posts/comments
Rule #9: Use the original source, no editorialized titles, no duplicates
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
The Stanley Parable! It just needs a mouse. You can also play with a keyboard.
Ballatro, slay the spire, vampire survivor's, peggle
If you are able to spend the money, consider getting a flight-stick-style joystick. You can get ones that have multiple thumb buttons, one or more triggers, and you control it all with one hand,
If you emulate, get Zelda games: phantom hourglass and spirit track. You can play those games with just mouse (and mic for stupid blowing thing).
Old School Runescape
Vampire Survivors or Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors
Came here to say vampire survivors! I had so much fun with that game.
-
Anything turn-based and mouse-driven like Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, Baba is You, Inscryption, Super Auto Pets, Mega Knockdown, chess, riichi mahjong, visual novels, etc. Or anything turn-based in general regardless of control scheme if you're alright with playing slowly.
-
Rhythm Doctor - A one button rhythm game.
-
Crypt of the Necrodancer - This game's control scheme was designed to be possible to play it on a dance pad. Which means you can also just play it with WASD or arrow keys.
-
I wanna shout out Puyo Puyo Champions since it actually has a one handed preset in its controller options. D-pad or ABXY to move and L1/L2 or R1/R2 to rotate. Caveat though is that the Steam version is not at all active online, I would strongly recommend getting it on Switch if you can.
I think Baba is you is better just with keyboard, it's one of the few games that allows for keyboard navigation on menus. I'm also not sure how to even move using the mouse.
OpenRCT2
(may you heal swiftly!)
Dead or alive Xtreme beach volleyball...you know why.
I mean, just look for turn-based games, hell, you could play Baldur's Gate 3 one-handed.
Civ 5/6
The Sims or Cities Skylines with edge scrolling enabled
Balatro perhaps, the rougelike poker game
Disco Elysium
Tacking Pentiment onto that. The premise may not seem super badass, but goddamn if it didn't suck me in and make me feel like I was a part of that town, extremely good game
I had a similar situation a few years ago and I filled my gaming void with Diablo 3. I had to bind my side buttons to the abilities. Worked surprisingly well.
One Finger Death Punch
Dance Dance Revolution
Turn based stuff is probably pretty safe, assuming that’s your jam. Been playing Rogue Trader and I think you can do most anything with the mouse.
OSU
Original Gothic is perfectly playable with one hand!
Gothic 2 too but less so.
FTL
Balatro Rimworld Islanders FTL
Strategy games like X-Com
Inscryption
The first 1/3 of that game is amazing.
Yeah, it's a shame the NG+ doesn't just stick to it. I'd be happy to just play that style full fledge card game.
Kacee's mod might be the best post game content I've ever played. So fucking good.
Any classic RTS
Age Of Empires II
OpenRA
Roller Coaster Tycoon series
Theme Hospital / Twin Peaks Hospital
These are examples of games that can be played with just the mouse.
To expand on this, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 has a FOSS re-implementation called OpenRCT2, and it's considerably better than even the original. I'd recommend Planet Coaster, but honestly, I think the simplicity of RCT2 makes things a lot easier one-handed.
For games that you can use a controller on:
https://www.printables.com/model/156112-one-handed-xbox-series-xs-controller
vampire survivors
Get a controller. I once had a broken arm, too (my dominant arm, to make things worse), but my hands worked fine so I could use my controller without any problems. Hands layed in my lap with the controller, and I learned really fast not to move my whole body to steer vehicles 😅
Get well soon!
Flatout 2 (and by extension Flatout Ultimate Carnage and Trail out) are all racing games that work great with just one hand.
Flatout 2 doesn't even have any functions on the mouse
(also I would argue that they are really cool arcade racing games)
Bloons TD 6 if you're into mindless tower defending
Crusader kings!
Won't hurt to try that: https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
Also, Audiosurf, EDGE and most racing games on PC depending on how you are comfortable to play them on KB.
And if you are into adventure books of games, The Walking Dead and other creations of that studio or in that style usually need to select one of the options in dialogue and that's all.
CORRECTION: Mindustry on PC doesn't have all on-screen buttons it has on mobile, particularly pause button, so it'd need to be binded somewhere accessible. Didn't know that. So it's stupidly easier to play on Android (free) with attached mouse than on PC shm.
Worms poped up on my mind first
Most racing games will do as well
Turn based RPGs too I guess (like the first FFs for example)
Classic shooter might do as well (first doom alike ones)
OpenTTD, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
You could play text based adventure games like Zork.
To be fair, any point and click game would work as they only need the mouse.
I am talking:
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork Nemesis
Myst
Riven
I just realized that Papers please would be fine as well!
Oh and 80 days would also work
Worms Armageddon
Tomb raider 1-3 trilogy remastered on Steam.
Dead Cells! Bind primary attack to space, secondary to c, and jump to w and it's a super chill game to play one-handed
Brotato
HEAT 😏