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Balatro
Haha as soon as I posted I realized I forgot to mention I've been playing Balerto already! GreR suggestion tho!
Btw: There are USB foot keyboards on the soulless online marketing platform of your choice. They can usually be programmed to different keys or combinations. While it is not something I would use for FPS gaming, it can come handy in situations like yours. I have one with three different switches that are programmable which is quite handy.
X-COM 2 is fully playable with just the mouse.
If you're looking for something a bit lighter, there's The Enchanted Cave 2, a nice little roguelite with an interesting loot system.
From memory, Fallout and Fallout 2 are fully mouse-playable too.
Civ 5 and FTL would be my top suggestions. I think anything turn based is likely to be playable with just a mouse
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
Only a madman would try FTL without a quick pause, although I believe it can be remapped.
Balatro!
Edit: inscryption is WASD +spacebar only, if you can do that with a slight seating adjustment. It's great for planes. The post game content might be even better than the game content, haha.
balatro!
Any turn based isometric. Pillars of eternity 1 & 2. Shadowrun returns/dragonfall/Hong Kong.
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.
Slay the Spire - a roguelike deckbuilder is a lot of fun.
I haven't actually tried it, but Balatro has made a lot of waves recently and I imagine you could play that with only mouse.
Also, what kind of mouse are you using? If you're still on a no thumb buttons mouse, you should definitely upgrade. If you only have 2 thumb buttons, as is most common, I'd recommend looking at something with more. My mouse has 3 thumb buttons, and two extra index finger buttons. and while some people like that mouse (i do) some don't, so I can't say whether you'd like it, but I will say the extra buttons have allowed me to set up a lot of games that would normally require a keyboard as well into a more mouse only friendly experience.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection
- Slay the Spire
- Tactical Beach Wizards (on sale!)
- Rogue Light Deck Builder (yes, that's the name)
Chess.
Vampire Survivors with arrow keys. 🧛
Into The Breach
Maybe some classic, more phantastical CRPGs with turn-based combat are more your juice than Disco Elysium: Baldur's Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II, Fallout. Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Pillars I and the rest of the Baldur's Gate series rely on real-time combat with pause which might get tedious when only using the mouse.
Oldschool runescape 😁
Rimworld can be played only with a mouse pretty good. And City Skylines too
For point-and-click adventures, I've enjoyed the Samorost series, Machinarium, and Botanicula!
Lots of visual novels, maybe you could try Fate?
There is unciv, a foss and free civ 5 adaptation, Humankind which was free for a time on epic games, civ 6 if it's still on sale, civ 7 if you're free to trying out new things
RimWorld would be nice but the lack of shortcuts will drive you mad
CK3 isn't as bad when you lack shortcuts, it's a fun game
Buy a mouse with a joystick or D-Pad on it. Or one of those 15 button mice meant for MMOs. Then you can play anything.
I actually played all of Talos Principle using only a 5 button mouse when I broke my arm a few months ago. I mapped W and S to the side buttons, jump to the middle click, and the game is actually perfectly playable with this controls.
Cookie Clicker
I don't see any mention of the Civilization games. Civ III is my personal favorite but Civ V was also good. Keyboard shortcuts are a little bit quicker of course but it's turn based so there's no rush!
A lot of RTS games play fine with just the mouse, especially in the early stages of playing. I've seen a few mentioned but I'll put Stronghold Crusader onto the recommendation list. I generally play it without any keyboard inputs.
Recently did another Plants vs. Zombies run, so I'm gonna throw this one into the mix here.
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.
First of, sorry about your collarbone, that sucks
Second, I think if you're looking for something to disappear into I really recommend Baldurs Gate 3, I've seen it recommend here already but just wanted to second that, it's a really fantastic world to live in for a bit
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 :)
Just started playing lonestar and it's been fun, Slice and dice is one of my favorites, Also pretty sure someone suggested slay the spire already but just wanna 2nd it if you haven't played it yet. Hope your recovery goes well!!
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 😅
Mini Metro was the first thing that came to mind. Fun little time waster.
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.
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
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.
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.
Faster than light