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Games that I can play with one hand

I recently broke my arm and I won't be able to use it for at least a month. I was starting to play STALKER 2 but that's not going to be possible for a while.

Do you have any suggestion for one-handed PC games?

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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.

Balatro perhaps, the rougelike poker 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.

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

Vampire Survivors or Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors
- Came here to say vampire survivors! I had so much fun with that game.

I'm proud of Lemmy today. 45 comments and not a single joke about OP's mom.

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.

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

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

vampire survivors

Bloons TD 6 if you're into mindless tower defending

Civ 5/6
The Sims or Cities Skylines with edge scrolling enabled

Dance Dance Revolution

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!

Crusader kings!

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

For games that you can use a controller on:
https://www.printables.com/model/156112-one-handed-xbox-series-xs-controller

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.

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)

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.

You could play text based adventure games like Zork.
- To be fair, any point and click game would work as they only need the mouse.
  I am talking:
  Zork Grand Inquisitor
  Zork Nemesis
  Myst
  Riven
  I just realized that Papers please would be fine as well!
  Oh and 80 days would also work
  Worms Armageddon

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.

Old School Runescape

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,