Long story short, I was trying to make some pork buns and it ended with the tip of my thumb being sliced off, after hospital visit and six stitches and back. But I’m kind of bored out of my mind. Can’t do the steam deck. Can’t do really anything with a controller. I have a large library of games, most of which I haven’t even played. Anything that might be good for me? I could always put some hours into rimworld
Recommend games that can be played with a single cylinder that must be protected, if you know what I’m saying
Vampire Survivors really only requires one hand, and if you use steam input to remap some buttons you can play it entirely with one hand.
For instance on the left hand side, since you navigate with the joystick, I set the d-pad to mirror the abxy buttons, and set L2 to be R1 which let’s you increase the game speed after you unlock the function in game
God i wish I could map buttons on ps5
Steam Input is so fucking awesome, it really deserves so much more attention imo
Its the game I boot up when the cat decides my arm is the only place that will suffice as a bed
Anything in this genre. Brotato and Deep Rock Galactic Survivor are great.
Turn based RPGs would be good. You could use the controller one handed. Especially things made for game boy, since there aren’t a lot of buttons.
Have you considered pocket ball?
I ran out of tokens 😞
If you can still use a mouse well, grand strategy games can be played with one hand. Despite all the (deserved) criticism they get, paradox games are a lot of fun. (and their modern ones even feel like a full game without having to buy any dlc) They can be a bit difficult to keep up with without a keyboard though so play on lower speeds.
If you are more concious about who you give your money to, endless legend 2 is a 4x published by hooded horse that is very good (think civ but fantasy) and since it is turn based it is a lot easier to play with just a mouse.
Anything on PC with a mouse/keyboard, maybe with the spacebar remapped.
Might be fine with space bar as-is. I use the side of my thumb for the space bar, not the tip.
This was my immediate thought…tons of games that don’t need spacebar at all.
Fruit Ninja comes to mind.
Any points and click adventure game, there are loads including old classics and modern good games.
Monkey Island remasters are fun and can be played with mouse. Broken Sword games are also good.
Rusty Lake games are great if you prefer more puzzle games than narrative ones. Still has a great somewhat surreal plot just not like a point and click narrative game.
Also If you havent played dwarf fortress now is the time to learn, the siege update came out this week. Mouse or keyboard, or both, but definitely can be done one handed.
Vampire Survivor that others have suggested is a good shout, one hand on the keyboard is enough and its very addictive.
Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3 (mobile games). An interesting set of puzzle games with good visuals. They only require single taps to work.
Also can get a mouse for the Steam Deck (or a PC if you have one). There are a lot of good games that you can likely use with a mouse if the hand/wrist motion doesn’t cause pain or discomfort for your thumb.
One Finger Death Punch
Pokémon Let’s Go [Eevee / Pikachu] can be played with a single joycon vertical in one hand. They designed it to be played with their Pokéball controller, accidentally making it super accessible.
They made it one-handed for a different reason…
Shapez or shapez 2 are really good factory games that dont really require a lot of thumb movement, else play the west of loathing, this one is fantastic turn styled rpg rame where you go west after the cows came home, also there is a spittoon, you can reach into it, and have the narrator describe the horrors you feel whilst poking around in there to fish out a assortment of spit infused garbage to wear on your person
XCom
Or I guess anything with keyboard/mouse.
Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku
Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc
Papers, Please on desktop and Shattered Pixel Dungeon on mobile
