One-handed games?

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• disposabletentacle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t understand. You have two friends, each with a good arm, that’s two good arms. Tape your friends together and have them coordinate and BAM: two-handed gaming.

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  • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And they can play Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tape will come off when they sweat, better sew them together. And trim off those unnecessary arms, it’s just efficiency.

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    • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🚨👮‍♂️🚨yes officer it’s this person right here

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  • helix@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    sadly they live 80km apart from each other, and both are right handed, so they couldn’t face each other while playing. We’d need a pretty weird dual-monitor setup if we’d tape them together.

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    • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      All I’m hearing is excuses over excuses!

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  • Socket462@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That sounds like a good plot for an episode in a tv show. I sense potential here. Haha

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  • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My SO and I died this during a stream once. I don’t know why lol.

    We played Hades. I was right, she was left. It started as a joke but we actually made it decently far lol.

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• koncertejo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You might be interested in the videos made by Champutee, a one-armed gamer who has done several experiments with both genres and controllers to continue enjoying gaming.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s an incredible username!

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• Tolstoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Balatro Slay the Spire Brotato Vampire Survivor & Clones

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m gonna say it.

    I’m gonna say it.

    Slice & Dice is better than Slay the Spire.

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    • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You like it better, it isn’t objectively better.

      I bounced off of SnD. I wanted to like it but just couldn’t for whatever reason.

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How do I get into it? I’ve tried and it’s not really sticking, to be honest.

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think a fair amount of survivor games like Vampire Survivors and 20 minutes til dawn are intended for just one hand. Then there’s every turn based strat game like Civilization and stellaris, along with every turn based RPG out thete

  Here’s a curator for one handed gaming as well. …steampowered.com/…/41112101-One-Handed-Gamer/

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.

  Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.

  You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.

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  • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I once played XCOM 2 with a stylus. Ended up adding a 6DOF mouse for thether hand because bouncing around the map without it was atrocious.

    Gamepads rule. There are one-handed ones as well.

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  FTL ftw

  www.gog.com/en/game/faster_than_light

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  • Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    FTL is love. FTL is life.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Especially with the Multiverse mod!

      (though it’s much harder to install on Linux than it has any right to be)

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m interested and for $3 I thinnill give it a shot. How does this compare to rimworld, as they look similar?

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I hadn’t played so I just checked out a beginner’s guide and I don’t think they’re very similar at all.

      In FTL you’re pretty much going from point to point on a map which mostly have encounters with single ships. You try to collect resources for upgrades or new weapons. At shops you can repair or buy things, and you’ll find new crew members there or organically through events. There are a few different ways to do combat (different kinds of guns/missiles, drones, or boarding enemy ships), and everything builds to a boss battle in the final sector.

      I’m sure there are some vids that can lay out the basics in a few mins, but if it sounds anything like a genre you’re interested in I’d say 3 bucks is a steal for it. As a roguelike it’s got a lot of replayability.

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  • Jtskywalker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My first thought was FTL as well. Great game

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Balatro is turn-based and is easy enough to control. I myself play on mobile, but Steam Deck shouldn’t be very different.

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• xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Papers please should be playable with one hand only and is great at burning time

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• Bananobanza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If they have a keyboard and are into turn-based role playing games then I can recommend Caves of Qud. It has a bit of a learning curve but once you get the hang of it starts to open up and it’s just incredible!

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  • VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When we are talking about turn-based RPGs, they could also give Stone Shard a look store.steampowered.com/app/625960/Stoneshard/

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• DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  One really handy thing with the Steam Deck is the ability to remap all of the buttons (as well as the two paddles on the back for each hand), so one could probably make a decent one-handed control setup for 99% of turn-based games. Even ones that require the use of the mouse, given the Deck’s touchpads.

  Vampire Survivors requires nothing except the stick/dpad outside of menus (and I’m pretty sure you can use the touchscreen for menus, too).

  If your friend(s) are stuck using the dpad, it might not be suitable, but Crypt of the Necrodancer only requires four buttons or left, right, up, and down (and you can assign buttons for the button combos normally required to do things like use bombs). This assumes that they like rhythm games.

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  • Ellvix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I second Vampire Survivors

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• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just FYI, there are a number of controllers out there for people who only have the use of one hand that are relatively cheap. I don’t always have the use of both hands, and I can definitely say that it’s possible to learn to use regular controllers effectively one handed as well. Once did a live stream specifically to show people what it’s like and how to do it. Both the Logitech F710 and the 8Bitdo Pro 2 work really well in my opinion. People have laughed at me, but the 8bitdo Zero 2 surprisingly works really well too, but is much more limited for inputs and thus, more suited to retro games.

  As for one handed games, here’s an extensive steam list

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If this is a long term thing, you might consider a left handed gaming mouse with programmable side keys.

  I hate to recommend Razer cuz their build quality has taken an absolute nose dive, but the only one I know of is the Razer Naga: www.razer.com/gaming-mice/…/rz01-03410100-r3m1

  Setting some of the side keys as WASD and the usual surrounding support keys (Q, E, R F, G, X, C) and you can play almost any game one-handed.

  The learning curve to get your brain to accept mouse movement and clicks with your left hand is annoying as fuck though.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have a couple Nagas and they’re excellent!

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    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good to hear.

      I’ve had 4 - the 1st was around 2012 I think, and it was fucking amazing.

      The second was around 2016, and even before plugging it in, it felt cheap. Actually using it, problems started popping up like measles in a red state - one of the side buttons stopped working, scroll wheel was janky.

      The 3rd was around 2016, after exchanging the second via RMA. The L-click button was super fucked up right out of the box - it’d do this annoying thing where you push it down once, and like multiple clicks would register (the internet called it the ‘double click issue’ but was was WAY more than double… happened when I was using some art software and I’d have to ctrl+z like 10 times to clear all the actions it registered from a single click).

      4th was around 2016, after exchanging the third via RMA >_< it made it a couple weeks without incident, but just when I thought I was in the clear, the cursor started jumping upwards a shit-ton randomly, which was hell trying to click-and-drag on anything. Then the internal LEDs went out (oh well, don’t really care if it’s pretty, but did like being able to see it in the dark). Then the double click thing started again.

      Dealt with that for a while cuz I couldn’t afford to replace it and was tired of dealing with Razer’s customer service.

      Then I joined the Air Force and didn’t have any time at all to game, so kinda fall out of the scene for a bit.

      Separated around 2020, got myself a Corsair Scimitar, and lived happily ever after. Doesn’t come in lefty though. :-/

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• WhippetBowie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …steampowered.com/…/Lorelei_and_the_Laser_Eyes/

  Brilliant puzzle game

  Designed to be played on a controller with one hand so you can take notes with your other hand.

  Such a cool stylish game. Highly recommended.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I remember that the dev of Legend of Grimrock added an option for movement with the mouse because a disabled gamer wanted to play. Maybe that second friend should check that and the 2nd game out.

  Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying…

  Yeah, for PC they’ll probably have to grit their teeth and power through the discomfort. An alternative is getting a hand in some old emulated games. Anything from the NES era can be mapped to 4 movements + 4 buttons (start, select, A, B), which on a keyboard could be WASD + Q, E, R and F. Dunno how to set something similar on a Deck.

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• amoistgrandpa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For the friend who enjoys BG3, you can play Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous pretty much entirely with the mouse. The base game is 90% off on steam right now too.

  Pathfinder has a massive learning curve compared to DnD 5e though, but that just means you can get an extra 50 hours of entertainment out of the game before you start the story, just by figuring out all the options when creating your character lol

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  • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    WotR is so fucking good. But a quick PSA for anyone interested: Install the Bubble Buffs mod so you don’t have to spend 5 minutes casting your 37 buffs before every large fight.

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• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I guess games like Monkey Island could work using the touch screen or touchpad working as a mouse

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• nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So left hand only games… driving games should work(enjoying NFS heat, atm), turn based games and isometric RPGs (plenty of those, depends on preferences… Balatro, slay the spire, XCOM, disco Elysium, etc… I could make a list if needed).

  Telltale games like the wolf among us and stuff Vampire survivors and all the similar games (halls of torment, soulstone survivors, etc)

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Divinity: Original Sin 2 is basically just more BG3 (though with less production quality) so that should be right up your RPG-loving friend’s alley. Turn based combat and click-to-move lets you play the whole thing with just your mouse I’m pretty sure.

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• nope@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You might want to check out this post : jlai.lu/post/16859633 Text is in French, but the picture shows a collection of 69 one-handed games on steam

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• tatann@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Have they tried narrative games like the ones from Telltale, Dontnod, … ?

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• Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Crypt of the Necrodancer is great fun if they don’t have it already.

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• thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee both support single hand mode.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For the record, I use a mouse with my non-dominant hand and I can play even fast paced FPS games like Titanfall competently enough. I actually used to dominate on Splitgate for a while. It’s a skill that can be learned. I have the advantage of having done it my whole life and I fully acknowledge that’s hard to replicate, but I think that with some practice anyone should be able to get to the point where they can play slower, primarily mouse driven games like turn based RPGs. Real time with pause might also be doable if you bind the pause button to the mouse (a mouse with some extra bindable keys would really help here). Anyway, just a thought.

  If those options don’t work, maybe look into games like Vampire Survivor, or Realm of The Mad God (though I think the latter does need some rapid mouse inputs when looting, so maybe not so good).

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• Peaches@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Most my time with Crypt of the Necrodancer was during a hand injury. It’s of course a pretty intense game though, so it’s not for everyone.

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• JackRider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For the cozy-game friend, I’d say A Short Hike might be a solid pick. It’s super chill, no stress, and you can get away with playing it mostly with just the left stick and a button or two — easy to remap if needed. Spiritfarer could also work, though it might take a little tweaking depending on how much movement they can handle.

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• PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  youtu.be/vNvjdVJFW9A

  Ben Heck made a couple of one handed controllers a few years ago. One of these controllers might open up more games than remapping buttons.

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• bmdhacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  youtu.be/oRLmc6Gd628

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The Final Fantasy pixel remasters are all old school turn based RPGs that can be played one handed on the steam deck. Certainly not all 50 games but UFO 50 has a bunch of games made for a non-existent console that are all pretty simple and I would bet a lot of them can be played one handed. Both Crypt of the Necrodancer and Cadence of Hyrule are rhythm dungeon delver games that probably work one handed too, technically so would the new game Rift of the Necrodancer but that requires more skill than I have

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Super Mario Run was quite fun as a single-button Mario platformer. You could also try visual novels or point-and-click adventures, or even something just with simple controls like pokémon.

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• Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve been playing Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel recently on PC and despite being relatively action heavy it’s 99% left hand (WASD + Q + space)

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