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Hey guys!
Since a couple days, I cannot use my left hand at all due to joint pains in my whole body (well, the joint parts of my body ;D). Yet still I feel the urge to play a computer game every now and then. Do you have any recommandations for games which can be played with one hand only?
Games, I came up with so far:
- Online Chess
- Hexels
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
- Audiosurf 2
- Cities: Skylines
- Hearthstone
Thanks for your help and have a nice day!
P.S.: Up until the pain came, I was playing Dishonored. So anything that feels a little sneaky would be much appreciated. Cheers!
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i know a funny game...in austria we call it "taschenbillard" xD
you play it also only with one hand
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This answer was so obvious I didn't think anyone would dare to...
I guess this is one of those "welcome to the internet" moments.
Any computer games anyone?
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On July 02 2016 21:39 AKnopf wrote:
This answer was so obvious I didn't think anyone would dare to...
im really sorry xD
it's super slow at the office :/
and to answer you question : world of goo! + Show Spoiler + and on a cellphone i can only recommend linken + Show Spoiler +
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Play summoner necromancer in Diablo II and listen to audiobooks at the same time. It's kind of nirvana.
Along the vein of chess, you could try out Go, though the learning curve is very steep.
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Prison Architect is a good game for mouse only. Games like Civilization and Stellaris are good as well. Banished is a fun little game too.
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You could also try something like the logitech g600 (my current mouse). 12 thumb buttons allows me to do simple things without the keyboard (I could even do the first 3 min of HotS with it - not so much in LotV).
Might only be worth the investment if this is a long term issue.
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turn based games work really well here. Check out Civilisation 4,5,6 something like HoMM could work, some RPG's are turn based as well, i dunno there's plenty of room i think when you concentrate on the "relaxing" games everybody else plays; those that don't require insane apm or multitasking.
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In the vein of the post above, the Age of Wonders series, any of the management games like Football Manager/ Championship manager.
Why do you have joint pains though?
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Faster Than Light is a good game, easily just use one hand.
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A number of years back my sister was having trouble with tendinitis and the like in her right (dominant) hand from artwork and had to stop using the hand for most things, so she was playing games using her left hand only. She was playing console (e.g., ps2) vice computer games for the most part but found some that work well with one hand. I recall her setting some challenge game records in Final Fantasy X! (something like Yuna only no sphere grid no summoning no this no that)
Good luck recovering from your problems with pain. Hopefully you'll be two-handed and capable of 400 apm soon.
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Thanks everyone for the help!
@DocSchlakk: I will try this Linked thing - looks interesting!
@ApothetikSchozoid: Banished seems interesting and is on sale right now: instabuy! :D Prison Architect I dont know... it seems so bustling, which annoys me pretty fast.
@Yosu: I hope it will get better soon. The lab will have my results on monday so lets hope for the best,
@Cele: Of course! How could i forget HoMM. The problem is: I dont know any of these relaxing games :D Hence this blog 
@Chef: I actually played a summoner necromancer once... and I wont go there again. 
@Deleuze: Faster Than Light I would have never thought of, but the feedback is quite good. And its on sale! :D
@Micronesia: Yeah, luckily my right hand is quite OK. Thanks for you wishes, but the times where I played with 400 apm are long past. :D
Thanks again for your good advice. I will definitely try some new games and tell you how it went. Playing new games is also a great distraction. (And meanwhile I dethroned quite a few people in ninja mode :D)
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Pacman : Championship Edition
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The 2012 XCOM remake plays REALLY well with one hand, either on PC on iPad. I suspect XCOM 2 does as well.
Hope you recover soon!
Edit: Super Hexagon is also a great game for one-hand. Minimalist arcade game. Check it out.
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Many of the old 90s RTS games like the old C&C's, Anno, Stronghold, Knights & Merchants... Those were all too old to properly use hotkeys or unit groups. You had to do everything with the mouse. Especially in Knights & Merchants. Man that game had intense micro.
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Grand strategy: Europa Universalis series, Crusader Kings series, Hearts of Iron series, Victoria series
Point & Click adventures: There are too many good to list, Monkey Island series (1-3 are the good ones) etc etc
Turned-based strategy: Jagged Alliance 2, HoMM series, Battle for Wesnoth (not sure if it's free anymore) etc
Dungeon crawlers: Eye of the Beholder, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master etc
Card games: Yu-Gi-Oh! (on Dueling Network) - only TCG I played online, there is a lot of garbage out there these days though
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Spy fox, pyjama sam ^^
srsly
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On July 03 2016 22:02 Lucumo wrote:
Grand strategy: Europa Universalis series, Crusader Kings series, Hearts of Iron series, Victoria series
Point & Click adventures: There are too many good to list, Monkey Island series (1-3 are the good ones) etc etc
Turned-based strategy: Jagged Alliance 2, HoMM series, Battle for Wesnoth (not sure if it's free anymore) etc
Dungeon crawlers: Eye of the Beholder, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master etc
Card games: Yu-Gi-Oh! (on Dueling Network) - only TCG I played online, there is a lot of garbage out there these days though
Holy shit i need to get back onto dueling network. Thanks for the reminder!
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Trackmania is quite playable on keyboard.
The Sims
Baldur's gate
As mentioned above, anything on an emulator should work well too, like SNES, GBA games.
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play the Discworld MUD
its a reading exploration game where you interact with the environment with simplified commands like "e" to walk east and "get" or "drop" to get or drop an object or "l" to look at something in the room description
the world is INSANELY detailed and huge beyond compare (altho you will probably want to use a quest guide coz the world is too big now to stumble upon them by yourself lol) https://dwwiki.mooo.com/wiki/Unofficial_quest_solutions (seems to be down atm) use the wiki for everything or use here for items and maps http://dw.daftjunk.com/ . its more fun to just walk around without a map tho you can walk for days and just explore on your own initiative
personally i would use a guide/get help to join the wizards, thieves or assassins guild then go for a walk and do a few quests and learn some basic spells or commands. you can be a priest or warrior too but they are a little less "roleplay friendly" imo (although you can join different warrior factions from across the whole world now, like the mountain Hunters, desert Samurai etc actually there are 10 different regions lol. and well there are many different priests guilds all with their own unique spells and characteristics, just the wizards/thief/assassin guild experience is even cooler imo), or a witch (which is what i am) but they are not very newbie-friendly (no primary combat skills)
http://discworld.imaginary.com:5678/lpc/decafmud/web_client.html
if it fails to load (it did for me once) click one of the alternative links it says there somewhere
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^ Been looking for a good MUD since quitting Medievia. Think I'll try out Discworld.
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use "newbie" to ask questions globally and once you enter the game you can get a talker by going approx 8 south 1 west into the room and exchange voucher with Jorodin (or something like that) . then with your talker you can type "one" to chat
make sure your starting location is morpork/ankhmorpork (you can get someone to portal you to other places easily but you'll want to start in morpork to begin with, the language there is the most common)
discworld is insanely detailed . you die very easily and lose xp, drop your corpse and have finite lives (you can replace them with large sums of money) so ... try not to attack anything (enjoy the atmosphere lol). pick a guild to join (personally i would go wizard or thief or assassin) and use the wiki https://dwwiki.mooo.com/ not sure why its still down, its usually working
the playerbase is small but very very dedicated (i've been there since 1998)
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For Super Nintendo, you could actually play the game Earthbound with just the left hand. You could do everything in the game (minus ringing the bell when on your bike) with just the directional buttons, the left trigger, and the select button which can be easily reached with the left thumb. There were ways to manipulate all the menu buttons using just those buttons which was very quick and easy, which is pretty unique. Also, it is an insanely fun game to play.
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Osu! is an option, not sure if it has been mentioned yet.
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On July 06 2016 10:07 Impervious wrote:
For Super Nintendo, you could actually play the game Earthbound with just the left hand. You could do everything in the game (minus ringing the bell when on your bike) with just the directional buttons, the left trigger, and the select button which can be easily reached with the left thumb. There were ways to manipulate all the menu buttons using just those buttons which was very quick and easy, which is pretty unique. Also, it is an insanely fun game to play.
actually you can play any snes , ps (and probably ps2) RPG with 1 hand, just map the controls to that side of the keyboard
like i played FF7 by mapping OK to 0, menu to + and cancel to enter , 7 and 8 to switch and then you got 4568 to move and . to select or pause or whatever the last button is
or u cud play Monodora on Insane mode with 1 hand like the guy is on SGDQ right now LOL
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you could probably map out Fire Emblem 7 and 8 controls on a pc to use on one hand
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On July 03 2016 22:02 Lucumo wrote:
Grand strategy: Europa Universalis series, Crusader Kings series, Hearts of Iron series, Victoria series
Point & Click adventures: There are too many good to list, Monkey Island series (1-3 are the good ones) etc etc
Turned-based strategy: Jagged Alliance 2, HoMM series, Battle for Wesnoth (not sure if it's free anymore) etc
Dungeon crawlers: Eye of the Beholder, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master etc
Card games: Yu-Gi-Oh! (on Dueling Network) - only TCG I played online, there is a lot of garbage out there these days though
you gave me an idea, i tried legend of grimrock, lovin it. thx!
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