PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

So, yesterday I broke my dominant arm. Yay! For the next 6 weeks, I have a cast, and at least for now, I can’t use my right hand or arm at all (I am typing this with my left hand).

I’m looking for suggestions what I can play. Some thoughts:

On PC, of couse
Can be played only with the keyboard
No time limits or need to respond quickly (e.g. many RTSes)
I like puzzle games, RPGs, and good storytelling. I want to like sim games, but haven’t yet found one that I love.
Nothing too difficult

Here’s a link to my Steam profile, if that helps: steamcommunity.com/profiles/…/games/?tab=all

Thank you all for any advice!

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SillyBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You might have some luck with a controller, using only a half of it, and re-mapping all controls there. Steam Controller might be great since it has touchpads. That might make some mouse-requiring games playable.

Using only keyboard, damn that’s difficult to find something, haha. I think these might work, just going by my memory: FTL, Toki Tori, Undertale, VVVVVV, Braid, Dome Keeper. Basically that kind of simple 2D games. Then almost any racing game.

You could also try some eye tracking solution, can’t help with that though.

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glau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Might I recommend the timeless classic Heroes of Might and Magic III? Most of the campaigns are not too difficult after you get the hang of things, if I remember correctly. And you can get a hundred hours out of it even if you only play the official campaigns.

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Jontique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Vampire Survivors?

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Tatters@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Total War. The campaign is turn based; although battles are real-time, you can auto-resolve them instead, which will remove any real-time elements from the game.

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flauschibunny@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
XCOM and Shadowrun returns! Just use the mouse with the other hand. Both games give you all the time you need. Battletech is a goog one handed game, too.

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- cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  XCOM is a great idea. I played it years ago, but never made it to the end.
  
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- glau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I second XCOM, if we are talking about the original two, Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep. I heard good things about the more recent ones, but I never played those.
  
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- Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I second all of the shadowrun games, I loved running through them on my phone.
  
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Weylandyuta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Darkest dungeon dungeon should be playable with only one hand available.

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Sused@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
FTL

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ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Racing games in general, personally I like Forza Horizon 5, you could play it with WASD and a spacebar

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HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Anything that is turn-based will work really, or doesn't rely on a real-time mechanic.

I do suggest looking at a small trackball that you can use in the meantime. It'll be useful for the times when you need a pointing device in a smaller space, for whatever reason.

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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you have a tablet or a large phone, maybe board games? Some boardgame apps have excellent campaign modes. My go to for this is Galaxy Trucker, but it has a time pressure component.

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AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Civ V/Civ VI can all be played entirely with a mouse. Very fun, too.

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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you’re willing to bend on the RTS thing, Tooth and Tail is an RTS game that is almost completely played with your left hand in keyboard mode - it’s an RTS designed for gamepads so it only uses wasd and like 6 action buttons (rally selected, rally all, cycle selection forward, cycle back, build, sell). It uses the mouse buttons to click for the rally commands but not the pointing by default, you could rebind the mouse click rally commands to like lshift and ctrl or something like that and it should work well.

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MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Civ 5

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misterundercoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Civ

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Hallainzil@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Curse of the Golden Idol is a detective-puzzle game that is easily played one handed, is cheap, and is great.

Invisible Inc is like a stealthy XCOM (which I see on your profile), and again, easily played one handed.

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Reach@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
FFXIV can be played with just a mouse. RPG with good story telling. But using the mouse in your left hand might feel strange tbf.

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Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe some point and click adventure games? Those tend to have great stories. The Longest Journey, Syberia, stuff like that.

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veloxization@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Dang. Would have recommended One Finger Death Punch as it can be played with only one finger but the whole game is essentially QTEs. xD

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Razputinsgirth@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Do you like rpg card games? It's on my android but tavern rumble has been super fun for me recently. I wonder if you can find it on pc

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