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One handed games

smisk

smisk

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Oct 27, 2017
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Broke my right arm on Saturday, put a dent in my gaming plans over holiday vacation. Any suggestions for good games to play one handed? Was already playing Day of the Tentacle which should be fine, and I can play Trackmania pretty decently by putting brake/gas on the left trigger and bumper. Might look into some CCGs.
 

Strandr

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Oct 12, 2019
539
Persona 4 Golden for PC has great keyboard controls that make it one handed
I played the whole thing one handed when it came out
 
Lobster Roll

Lobster Roll

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Sep 24, 2019
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This is going to my final plug for this FTP game. Literally just need WASD or arrow keys and you're good to go:

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jman0625

jman0625

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Dec 18, 2017
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Earthbound can be played almost entirely with a control pad/stick and the left trigger
 
Exellus

Exellus

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Oct 30, 2017
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Suikoden 1 and 2 can be played entirely with your left hand. L1 and L2 function as alternative buttons.
 
Manatron

Manatron

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Feb 6, 2018
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I don't know why this one stood out in my mind, but Dragon Quest 8 on PS2 had a one handed control scheme. It seems like they also kept that for the mobile port.

It's a little old, but DQ8 is one of my favorite RPGS.
 
sph3re

sph3re

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Oct 28, 2017
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I've been getting into Planescape: Torment recently, I'm pretty sure you can play that game exclusively with the mouse. Well. I do, at least. Can't be bothered to learn the keyboard hotkeys.

Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty are two good ones. If you can use Tinder, you can play the Reigns games. They're on mobile and PC. Planescape: Torment is only on PC, as far as I know.
 
Goldenroad

Goldenroad

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Nov 2, 2017
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Wasteland 3...I imagine you can play mouse only, anyway. I played on a controller, but even that seems doable one handed as combat is turn based.
 
Dylan

Dylan

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Oct 28, 2017
3,260
You can technically play Rust without doing anything other than barking orders at people.
 
BennyWhatever

BennyWhatever

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Oct 27, 2017
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Most mobile games.

-Super Mario Run
-DBZ Dokkan Battle (as well as other gacha games)
-Pokemon GO

Then on PC, I'd recommend One Finger Death Punch.
 
Stowaway Silfer

Stowaway Silfer

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Oct 27, 2017
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I think Dragon Quest XI may be playable with one hand cause L2 can be used to confirm instead of X.
 
Anth0ny

Anth0ny

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Oct 25, 2017
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i remember when I got my wisdom teeth out and had to ice my face for like 2 whole days I played through almost all of paper mario ttyd with one hand
 

Sprat

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Oct 27, 2017
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England
I think uc4 has a one handed mode? Or at least it's playable with one hand as a friend who has suffered a stroke which resulted in loss of mobility in his left side was very pleased about it and loves the game for it.
 
MrWindUpBird

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Oct 28, 2017
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How bad did you break your arm? I've broken both of mine over the course of my it neither cast I had to wear impaired my gaming habits.
 
collige

collige

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Oct 31, 2017
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Trackmania is definitely a really good pick. There's obviously plenty of great puzzle and strategy games that only need a mouse, but I personally stan for Mini Metro. Simple, elegant, easy to learn, and hard to master.
 
Transistor

Transistor

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Oct 25, 2017
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Chopchop said:
How is that game? I got it recently, but I'm finding myself pretty overwhelmed by the number of tutorials and subsystems. The UI seems very unintuitive for some reason.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It definitely takes time to get used to, but once it does it just kind of clicks. Now, I really need to remember to make a disclaimer when I talk about Surviving Mars:

Base game? It's OK
With the terraforming expansion? It's fantastic.

The game sucked 100+ hours from my life and quickly became my "one more turn" game as of late.
 
SnazzyNaz

SnazzyNaz

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Nov 11, 2019
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Gothic 1. The control scheme is somewhat irregular for an WRPG but it also happens to work extremely well with just one hand on the keyboard.
 
Flevance

Flevance

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Oct 28, 2017
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Divinity Original Sin, Shadow Tactics and Desperados III

Oh, and it might be a good time to get into VNs, you can start with either Zero Escape or Ace Attorney
 
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