Hi people, I currently have two friends who injured their dominant arm in unrelated accidents and mostly can't do anything but sit around and watch movies.

I'd like to gift them some games to play with just one hand. Not the hentai variant, but something to keep them occupied with.

Both own a steam deck. One is more into cozy games like Dorfromantik and the other into RPGs like BG3.

One Finger Death Punch would be a good example as you can remap controls so you only need to press left and right on the D-Pad, but both of them don't really like that game.

Do you know any games which can be played with one hand, preferably a controller or Steam deck? Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying...

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[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Curious Expedition!

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I went through the same thing a while back

I played a lot of turn based RPGs

[–] danciestlobster@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Caves of Qud is keyboard only option (no mouse), mostly just need wasd. Definitely an atypical RPG but very fun all the same.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Pinball with arrow keys mapped to left and right flippers?

[–] Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml 2 points 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)

[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Puyo Puyo Champions has a one-handed controller preset. D-pad or ABXY to move, shoulder buttons to rotate.

Only caveat is that if you want to play online, only the Switch version is actively populated, so I can't recommend the game on any other platform.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Not really helpful in terms of gifts as they are free to play mmo's and they use keyboard and mice but both have some script capabilities which allow for one to be able to play alternating between keyboard and mouse or not use mouse at all. Its the cryptic games champions online and star trek online. One thing you could do is play them yourself and learn the scripting and then gifting them useful scripts. with champions online turning the block to a toggle is the big script thing and with star trek online its making an emergency power to spacebar one (this is reference to a script where tapping space works through all the abilites put into a shorcut area that can be swapped out). really basic ones will dump everything into spacebar but more nuanced ones will have a key for low cooldown abilities and one for long cooldown offense and long cooldown defense. there really is no limit to the messing around.

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

All the games. Every last one of them.

One handed controllers exist.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Dungeon crawl stone soup. Can be played with keyboard only.

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

deep rock survivor is a surprisingly fun and simple game that is designed for one handed play

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

thronefall is a fun little TD/RTS style game with a nice visual style and good rouglite-esque progression.

[–] Overspark@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

If it's more permanent show them an Azeron Cyro at https://www.azeron.eu/ It's a mouse with a thumbstick, you can play almost any PC game with one hand. Comes in both right and left handed versions.

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

One Finger Death Punch and One Finger Death Punch 2

What more is there to say? The reason why that works perfectly is already in the title of the game.

Caution: this game is addictive

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Atomic Heart

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rafa Nadal is right handed and plays left handed. If someone has issues with a non-dominant hand then it's time to start making the other one dominant.

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