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submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I recently broke my arm and I won't be able to use it for at least a month. I was starting to play STALKER 2 but that's not going to be possible for a while.

Do you have any suggestion for one-handed PC games?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ballatro, slay the spire, vampire survivor's, peggle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Old School Runescape

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

One Finger Death Punch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

OpenRCT2

(may you heal swiftly!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Original Gothic is perfectly playable with one hand!

Gothic 2 too but less so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Civ 5/6

The Sims or Cities Skylines with edge scrolling enabled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Dead or alive Xtreme beach volleyball...you know why.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

I mean, just look for turn-based games, hell, you could play Baldur's Gate 3 one-handed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Dance Dance Revolution

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Vampire Survivors or Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Came here to say vampire survivors! I had so much fun with that game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The first 1/3 of that game is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Tomb raider 1-3 trilogy remastered on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago
  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

OpenTTD, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Bloons TD 6 if you're into mindless tower defending

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

vampire survivors

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Balatro Rimworld Islanders FTL

Strategy games like X-Com

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

Balatro perhaps, the rougelike poker game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Crusader kings!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You could play text based adventure games like Zork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago