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.
Getting over it with Bennett Foddy.
It’s a challenging but deeply emotional game. You only need to use the mouse to climb the character up.
Oh cool that’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t usually play but reckon I’ll have time to enjoy over the next couple weeks. Great suggestion!
Yeah, it is quite an unusual kind of game. But I’d be happy to read about your thoughts if you play it! :)
I guess uncontrollable rage is an emotion!
Fair enough! But there’s some epic narration done, too. Quite soothing at times
Age of Empires, XCOM, Cities: Skylines, Divinity Original Sin 2, Starcraft, +1 for OSRS.
Without numbered groups and force attack/move tho?
Warcraft? Sid Meier’s civilization?
Or in general any top down RPG game, like RuneScape.
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
Kinda depends on what type of games you like!
Here’s a few different ones: Timberborn, Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, TemTem, FTL, Into the Breach
Edit: some personal favorites too: Dungeon Clawler and Ballionaire
TIMBERBORN
Such a good game. Shout-out RCE.
I really like his new shaft…😏
Gotta be honest; I love RCE, but he’s been outside my ring of focus for a while, so I have no clue what you’re on about. Really strong joke though. Some would say it’s efficient.
Only a madman would try FTL without a quick pause, although I believe it can be remapped.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll check them out. Appreciate it!
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!
Balatro
Haha as soon as I posted I realized I forgot to mention I’ve been playing Balerto already! GreR suggestion tho!
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&2I 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 tooOh 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!
Peglin
Fuck peglin, go og peggle
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. https://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!
The last two point and click games I’ve enjoyed were the Deponia series and the Book of Unwritten Tales. Both really good, challenging and fun :)
If you’re a grand strategy fan: Crusader Kings 3. You could spend hundreds of hours in that game, and it’s mainly designed to be played with only a mouse.
Oh I remember looking into this a while back but it seemed kind of daunting. Perhaps now’s the time to take the plunge! Appreciate the suggestion!
It’s definitely a bit difficult to get into, but I’d recommend doing the tutorial and going with the flow rather than trying to understand everything. You’ll slowly start to realize what’s going on.
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 😅
My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:
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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.
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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 keyboard sounds very hard.
you mean without a keyboard? op said only mouse
Would be my first time playing rimworld. Would it work without a keyboard?
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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.
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!
