Games that I can play with one hand

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Vampire Survivors and Balatro should keep you occupied until your arm is fixed!

• 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.

Look at super giant games, they have some turn based games that are really good and I think will be playable with one hand

Balatro perhaps, the rougelike poker game

Vampire Survivors or Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors

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.

Disco Elysium

FTL

Subspace

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

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

Balatro Rimworld Islanders FTL

Strategy games like X-Com

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

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.

Civ 5/6

The Sims or Cities Skylines with edge scrolling enabled

Dance Dance Revolution

vampire survivors

OSU

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,

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!

For games that you can use a controller on:

https://www.printables.com/model/156112-one-handed-xbox-series-xs-controller

Bloons TD 6 if you're into mindless tower defending

Inscryption

Crusader kings!

The Stanley Parable! It just needs a mouse. You can also play with a keyboard.

Old School Runescape

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)

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.

OpenRCT2

(may you heal swiftly!)

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.

Universal Paperclips.

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).

One Finger Death Punch

Original Gothic is perfectly playable with one hand!

Gothic 2 too but less so.

OpenTTD, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

You could play text based adventure games like Zork.

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)

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

One Finger Death Punch

HEAT 😏