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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

  • 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.

  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I dunno, playing Rimworld without keyboard sounds very hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you mean without a keyboard? op said only mouse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would be my first time playing rimworld. Would it work without a keyboard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You'd be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, spacebar for emergency pauses (there's a screen button but it's harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yea I meant that