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Pretty much title.

My girlfriend just had surgery on her left wrist so can't really use a controller or a keyboard and mouse.

She likes her visual novels and JRPGs, so it should cover a lot of games she'd like.

Some of her favourite games are the Daganrompa, Persona, and any real crossovers there like anything Atlus or Spike Chunsoft

BG3 could be played with just a mouse, couldn't it? I got her Disco Elysium as well, that should be possible too, right?

Let me know any others, she'll be out of action for about a week.

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[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most deck builders can be fully played with only a mouse. Turn based strategy or city builders are usually all fully playable only with a mouse.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got her the Slay The Spires and Inscryption so she can actually start playing those

[–] Commie_Chameleon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

If she likes Inscryption you might also have her try Forbidden Solitaire! It’s another meta horror card game.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Once Upon a Galaxy has been eating up so much of my gaming. Game is like playing a combo-only Magic: the Gathering Vintage cube. It's an asynchronous drafting autobattler where you pick a captain and a small deck.

It's free to play on a very generous level. Every captain becomes free after about a month and cards are earned by placing in the top 3 of each lobby.

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FTL: faster than light

Basically any point-and-click adventure

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I sunk so many hours into that game before I even realized there were keybinds

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm constantly using the pause hotkey in FTL

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you can pause with middle click. It would have been unplayable with mouse only if you couldn't

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got her Disco Elysium as well, that should be possible too, right?

Yes, I don't think you need to touch the keyboard. It's basically a visual novel.

If she wants to try something outside her usual genres, I think trying out a Civilization games might be a good option. Civ 5 and 6 can probably be gotten for cheap. The UI is completely mouse-driven, hotkeys are optional.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Slay the Princess! ...which is covered under visual novels

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seconding this, it's really good.

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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's only a week 2-3 long visual novels should be enough. Clannad takes like dozens of hours to read through.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

She might like this. Her favourite type of game is one where you press A and read

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Point and click adventures.

Monkey Island 1+2 are great.

Broken Sword (the whole series) is great.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

adding to this list:

  • day of the tentacle
  • monkey island 3
  • myst, riven, myst 3, possibly the riven remake
[–] Angry_Stoat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Read Only Memory: 2064 is a fun pixel art, point and click, first person adventure game.

Oxygen Not Included. - Takes some time to learn, but once you know what to do, it's pretty addicting.

VA-11 HALL-A - same universe as ROM:2064, but you play as a bartender.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

ONI is incredibly fun, klei does good work

[–] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Into the Breach is a good one - it's a turn-based mech tactics game against bugs made by the same developers as FTL.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Old School Runescape(OSRS)

The only thing I can think of that requires keyboard is the chat which isn't required at all to play I usually ignore it myself,
keys in the game are just shortcuts for stuff that can be done via mouse.

The one thing that could be annoying is not being able to enter an exact quantity when depositing/withdrawing multiple copies of something from your bank, but there's preset quantity amounts that can be chosen by mouse only, so I don't thing that would become annoying untill higher levels

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iterative games (cookie clicker-likes) are super low intensity and are near universally spreadsheet manager type games. Not the same genre she likes but certainly mouse only constrained

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Diablo or anything like diablo, quite a lot of rts games, point and clicks and old rpgs.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I was thinking of the Diablos, they're the classic clicker games

[–] avoid_the_noid@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

The Longest Journey. Still one of my favorites 30 years later. Basically a point and click visual novel with some puzzles.

[–] redparadise@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For those genres, Ace Attorney and Doki Doki Literature Club, in surprising(ly irrelevant) entry Undertale and Deltarune, these games don't even support a mouse but fully support one hand playing as ZXC also map to Enter, RShift and RCtrl

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Good point about the Fox games. I'm pretty sure she's played some Ace Attorney and maybe she'll actually play Doki Doki instead of just watching let's plays of it

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Esoteric Ebb. Very fun RPG. Very Swedish, so don't show it together any Norwegians.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cookie Clicker-likes are all mouse. Kittens Game is a good one. I also like The Tower, which is played on a phone vertically with one hand.

When I broke my arm, I found that I could still use the two split halves of a Switch controller.

Top down building games, like Factorio, Rimworld, and Timberborn can be played entirely with a mouse.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

God I've been playing kittens game on my phone so much recently

[–] haxboar@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Itch.io has a 'mouse only' tag. It's not 100% accurate, but it's a good starting point.

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Balatro and Slay the Spire. For Balatro I recommend you look up the mod that adds more shortcut/mouse actions, that way it can be played more comfortably with just a mouse, tho it is not bad without it, just better with it.

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

There are people who beat dark souls one-handed so I guess souls-likes

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

BG3 and DE can be played with just mouse but not comfortably IMO. You need to use the keys to pan the camera around which is really helpful.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have a vague memory that Suikoden 2 can be played with just the right side of a controller, since it's only uses two or three buttons and the thumbstick, good for reading while levelling up against those damn rabbits.

Same for quite a few old-school games really, Xenogears might have been the same.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Oh that looks neat, thanks! The fistfighting looks straight outta Fei's combos as well.

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[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Narrative games, ala Suzerain, would work well I think

Of the Devil is a really good VN / courtroom battler.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

If she likes VNs I'll rec Umineko (~75hrs), featuring install advice from whyesseff. As far as "gameplay", it's reading (and listening to the music) while clicking through dialogue while occasionally checking the character and tips screens, with no choices or branching paths, and then engaging with and contemplating the mystery on your own.

[–] whisp@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Diablo and classic fallouts

[–] Twerp10@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

If she can use the right half of a controller, she can map the right analog stick to d pad, shoulders to confirm and cancel, and play lots of jrpgs from PS1 and earlier. A full PS2 or GameCube controller layout is possible if you have a controller with a paddle, using steam input or rewasd

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Letting a mouse go and then smacking it with a paw.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think Divinity: Original Sin 2 didn't have any parts that required a keyboard, and the combat is turn-based so it's fairly accessible. Great game as well if your gf likes CRPGs.

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[–] Lurkerino@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Civilization 6 or any other civ

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It doesn't fit the genres you mentioned, but I just want to throw out Hammerfight, just because it's dope and you only use the mouse. In fact, you can play multi-player by hooking up a second mouse!

Its a little old so I'm not sure how it runs on modern systems or where to buy it. But it's really cool!

Also tbf, the action is a little frenetic, so it may be a bit much if the other arm is recovering, idk. Just a neat game that's mouse only that I've never heard anyone talk about, is all.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Oh but for a more on-point suggestion, I vote Monkey Island. 1 and 2 specifically. Mouse only point and click adventure with good humor and funny dialogue (and fantastic music).

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I'll need to look it up, I have enough mice lying around

[–] Mog_Pharou@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I'm playing Mewgenics right now, don't think I've used the keyboard once. Fantastic game.

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