I'm proud of Lemmy today. 45 comments and not a single joke about OP's mom.
Ballatro, slay the spire, vampire survivor's, peggle
I mean, just look for turn-based games, hell, you could play Baldur's Gate 3 one-handed.
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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.
Dead or alive Xtreme beach volleyball...you know why.
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
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.
Old School Runescape
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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.
Look at super giant games, they have some turn based games that are really good and I think will be playable with one hand
Specifically Transistor
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,
Dance Dance Revolution
For games that you can use a controller on:
https://www.printables.com/model/156112-one-handed-xbox-series-xs-controller
Subspace
Crusader kings!
One Finger Death Punch
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)
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.
OSU
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).
Balatro Rimworld Islanders FTL
Strategy games like X-Com
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.
The Stanley Parable! It just needs a mouse. You can also play with a keyboard.
Vampire Survivors and Balatro should keep you occupied until your arm is fixed!
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