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I've just broken my left collarbone and for the next couple weeks have left arm in a sling. Thinking about games that are played just with the right hand?

I've already got Slay the Princess which I've been meaning to get around to for a while and Disco Elysium which I never got far through, but taking any suggestions at this point, always keen to try fresh genres and formats.

Let em on me!

Thanks, gang.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

You can play osrs with just mouse, though keyboard shortcuts are handy/mandatory for late game - you won't be there though before the hand heals πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll throw in Oxygen Not Included.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One of the best games there is, but without any keyboard shortcuts, that will be annoying really soon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Classics like The Incredible Machine and Ultima 8 come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Haha I'm not mentally prepared to get back into The Incredible Machine right now. Thanks for the suggestion tho!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Old School Runescape if you like grinding. But you might never quit if you get hooked :')

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's only one hand til you get real good, f keys to swap inventory page like the pros do.

Or just click everything because for the first few hundred hours it doesn't super matter anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ok I'll look into it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if Bud Tucker in Double Trouble would still run. Probably would need dosbox

Anyway, whole adventure genre. Syberias, Mysts, Gabriel Knight

I've found Shadowrun trilogy fun

Darkest Dungeon, Oxygen not Included, Surviving Mars
Citizen Sleeper is short but well done, got me hooked to finish it in a single sitting
Arcanum I still consider one of the best RPGs ever made
Fallout 1&2

I don't know if Commandos style games would not require too fast clicking without a keyboard, but you could try out Shadow Tactics, it has active pause IIRC
Speaking of Commandos, Jagged Alliance was fun too

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

Oh my brother suggested Mysts, I'll look into your other picks too, tho setting up dosbox might be a bridge too far right now. Keeping things simple! Thanks for the suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

point & click adventure games? Some older ones can be aquired for cheap, or even free as some of them have been released as freeware.

some suggestions in no particular order, some are older (like, DOS old, but still good today, imo), some are 2010's or so:

  • TellTale Sam & Max -episodic games (3d, cartoony, comedy)
  • Monkey Island -series, parts 1-3. (2d, cartoony, comedy, pirates, yarharhar) (Later games in the series are pretty finicky to get running/stay running.)
  • Sam & Max: Hit the road (2d, cartoony, comedy)
  • The Dig (2d, scifi)
  • Full Throttle (has a modernized remaster) (2d, "scifi", biker-theme)
  • Flight of the Amazon Queen (freeware) (2d, ~40's vibe, "retro-scifi")
  • Beneath a steel sky (freeware) (2d, scifi, comedy, some gore)

Ones that have some keyboard usage, but are mainly mouse driven (or can be mouse driven)

  • Grim Fandango (modernised remaster, original doesn't do mouse) (3d, latin-american land of the dead, comedy)
  • Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (some occasional fights where keyboard would be preferred, most of these can be circumvented though) (2d, some comedy, ww2, I mean, it's indiana jones)

The older ones can be played via Scummvm (https://scummvm.org/) - it's basically a simplified launcher/runner just for adventure games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Believe it or not I played Sam and Max Hit The Road when it first came out! Great suggestion thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I only longingly looked at the screenshots of Sam&Max in some gaming magazine at the time, managed to get the game waaayyy later. But man was it worth the wait :)

You're welcome! Also, there are still some more-or-less indie devs who keep the point&click adventures alive, afaik most, if not all from Wadjet Eye's catalog are great, eg: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Strangeland, Primordia.. worth checking out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Get yourself Broken Sword Reforged and chill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ok I think I will, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Backpack Battles! Fantastic little inventory management game with a load of replay value.

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

Huh! I've never come across the genre, I feel this is a good opportunity to try some new things so I appreciate the suggestion. Will look into it!

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

kentucky route zero

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

If you want an alternative to Slay the Spire i can recommend Monster Train; you mainly summon different Hellspawn and cast spells, which gives it more of an Magic the Gathering feel.

If you want an ARPG fix and have thumb buttons on your mouse you can try Chronicon, don't let the gfx stop you, it's an excellent hack&slash game, and you can put all your skills onto 1 button if you like - i use the middle and the right button for most builds and thumb keys for pots

If you want a new spin on Darkest Dungeon, give Iratus - Lord of the Dead a try. Or if you played a lot of Darkest Dungeon and want more of it, try Black Reliquary, a huge (and free!) mod with a lot of new mechanics!

Going into the same direction as Into the Breach is Shotgun King - the final Checkmate. It's really fun and the higher difficulties really make your brains work out. Workshop support with lots of extra content included! Also great for Turn-based Tactics is Invisible Inc., putting you in control of an spy agency which has been hit hard and tries to recover.

For arcade games i can recommend Utopia must fall - it really captures the spirit of old arcade games, but feels real fresh. You can also go for Nova Drift, which is also an excellent arcade game.

Then there is Cultist Simulator and its spiritual successor, Book of Hours. It's basically a card based riddle game, and very atmospheric.

There is always Shattered Pixel Dungeon - it is also available on Steam or Gog, but you can download and play it for free from the link i provided.

I think your collarbone might have healed until you've finished that list, have fun!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There is no game: wrong dimension

There might be some keyboard moments iirc but they’re not intense and you can let the mouse go iirc

This game needs more love

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Intriguing! I'll definitely look into it, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

airborn empire is a fun city builder/resource management game

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh good suggestion I was playing that w couple years ago might be time for another go!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Stardew valley with the mouse move mod /hj

Or bloons tower defence :3.. I've gotten a lot of gaming hours out of btd5

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While we're talking about tower defence, I really recommend the Gemcraft series! IMO probably the best tower defence games out there. Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath are both on Steam, and I highly recommend them.

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

+1 for Bloons

also all the cookie clicker games e.g. https://cheerfulghost.github.io/civ-clicker/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

  • Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you're slowly getting to know in Rimworld.

  • Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn't have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn't work.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Shogun showdown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Uow about some visual novel style games like 999, Hotel Dusk (DS emulator), Ghost Trick, Professor Layton (DS emulator or mobile)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Age of Empires, XCOM, Cities: Skylines, Divinity Original Sin 2, Starcraft, +1 for OSRS.

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

Without numbered groups and force attack/move tho?

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