Submitted 4 days ago by Contentedness@lemmy.nz to games@lemmy.world
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.
Peglin
Fuck peglin, go og peggle
Oh! Controversy! I love it! Will have to weigh my options carefully before choosing a side!
Old School Runescape if you like grinding. But you might never quit if you get hooked :')
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.
Ok I’ll look into it!
You did say “just right hand,” there was a thread before asking for one-handed games in general
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
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!
Get yourself Broken Sword Reforged and chill
Ok I think I will, thanks!
Faster than light
With the exception of chat, try Old School RuneScape. Good game for passive gameplay as well as more intensive/focused gameplay.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection
Backpack Battles! Fantastic little inventory management game with a load of replay value.
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!
Oh I forgot to mention this part. They have a free demo on Steam with ~1/3 of the playable content. That alone is great. The full game is reasonably priced too and they’re still rolling out content updates frequently
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 the genre, some are older (like, DOS old, but still good today, imo), some are 2010’s or so:
Ones that have some keyboard usage, but are mainly mouse driven (or can be mouse driven)
The older ones can be played via Scummvm (scummvm.org) - it’s basically a simplified launcher/runner just for adventure games.
Believe it or not I played Sam and Max Hit The Road when it first came out! Great suggestion thanks!
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!
Slay the spire
Oh good suggestion I was playing that w couple years ago might be time for another go!
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.
I dunno, playing Rimworld without mouse sounds very hard.
you mean without a keyboard? op said only mouse
If you don’t mind something older, both Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic games can be played only with mouse. It’s bit clunkier than also using a keyboard, but doable. I used to play them like that while smoking many years ago.
Peggle Deluxe and Peggle Nights are awesome mouse-only (except typing name i think) casual games!
Since Ellipsis hasn’t been mentioned yet, here’s my recommendation:
Ellipsis is an action-packed Avoid ’Em Up with minimalistic, yet powerful neon styled visuals. Guide your ship through a mysterious universe while deftly avoiding hordes of roaming enemies, spikes, lasers and more.
Peggle, Nubby’s Number Factory, Peglin, Ballionaire
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
Intriguing! I’ll definitely look into it, thanks!
Stardew valley with the mouse move mod /hj
Or bloons tower defence :3… I’ve gotten a lot of gaming hours out of btd5
+1 for Bloons
also all the cookie clicker games e.g. cheerfulghost.github.io/civ-clicker/
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.
Thanks I’ve e e enjoyed some tower defense games in the last but don’t remember any titles, I’ll check out these suggestions!
Age of Empires, XCOM, Cities: Skylines, Divinity Original Sin 2, Starcraft, +1 for OSRS.
Without numbered groups and force attack/move tho?
Give Kingdom of Loathing a try.
Get a giant D-pad for one of your feet to use for wasd
kentucky route zero
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!
Uow about some visual novel style games like 999, Hotel Dusk (DS emulator), Ghost Trick, Professor Layton (DS emulator or mobile)
Nubby’s Number Factory
I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse
Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more
If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition
Warcraft? Sid Meier’s civilization?
Or in general any top down RPG game, like RuneScape.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Recently did another Plants vs. Zombies run, so I’m gonna throw this one into the mix here.