I stupidly injured my left hand and it’s going to be out of commission for the next 3 months. I usually play Sim racing games and first person shooters.

What games would be available to me in order to keep streaming while only using my right hand? Ideally racing themed.

I can somewhat use my left hand to hold a controller but not use any of the buttons on the left side or the stick and pad.

PS: Don’t stick your fingers in a blender without powering it down first. Trust me.

Edit: Thanks for the suggestion everyone, it turns out I already own a lot of these through humble bundles. Time to work through that backlog!

  • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    20 hours ago

    Something I haven’t heard recommended yet: One Finger Death Punch 1 & 2. It is completely mouse based, pretty addicting, and satisfies the itch for interactive stick figure fighting like the old Flash videos used to do.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    15·
    24 hours ago

    Management games, strategy games, point-and-click games and isometric RPGs can all be played one-handed. Some might need spacebar (or whatever the pause button is) to a mouse thumb button for maximum comfort but that should be fine. Do any of these genres sound interesting?

    EDIT: Card games should work great too, there is a vast ocean or deckbuilders out there!

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    24 hours ago

    Frostpunk is the first mouse game I’ve played in a decade. it was really nice. it’s a citysim but you have to prolong the life of a civilization through the heat death of the universe. Since every end state is freezing to death it makes you consider living in an interesting way.

    also it made me cry which is a really weird emotional beat for a citysim. who does that?

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        19 hours ago

        dude why did it make me feel things??? why did it make me starve the children and put down the revolution? then sacrifice myself for everyone???

        I just bought it because it was winter and I wanted a game about being warm.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        1·
        15 hours ago

        If you want something with a bit more story I will keep proselytizing for Chrono Ark. If you enjoy roguelike deckbuilders like StS then this is one of the best ones from a pure game mechanics perspective, and it also has an entire visual novel baked in with a surprisingly interesting story.

  • pasta@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    Trackmania would be my recommendation, you can do almost everything using just the arrow keys and mouse for menu navigation.

  • slampisko@lemmy.world
    2·
    18 hours ago

    I’m currently playing Cocoon, it’s a fun little indie gem with only an analog stick and a single button to control it, and an accessibility mode in the controls settings that makes both sticks and all buttons work; so you can play with just a stick and trigger – one hand.

  • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 day ago

    Have you considered using the pedals of a steering wheel and configuring that to take the work from your left hand to your feet?

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      3·
      1 day ago

      Adding to that, racing games from my experience shift gears automatically, so the hand OP would use for shifting them would be mostly free.

      Also makes me think, maybe the pedals could be configured as the motion keys in shooter games? Mouse could steer the character left and right, while pedals would move ahead and back. Just dunno how many keyboard keys OP would need to be creative with.

      And to the OP, hope you can recover fully! 💪

      • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
        2·
        20 hours ago

        I simrace competitively, autogears would destroy my MMR 🤣

        Though lack of practice would do that too.

        Realistically, I won’t have fun doing it that way.

      • 0li0li@lemmy.world
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Adding to this. I play racing games daily and drift fine with automatic gears and only 1 hand.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    1·
    16 hours ago

    Worldbox, Sky: Chilren of Light might be able to be played this way if it can be rebound, Caves of Qud can be albiet slowly (but its not a fast game anyway), Solium Infernum can be played one-handed.

    If you have or get one of those thungs from Razer or something equivalent where it has the key group, a joystick thing, and some more inputs all on one hand you might be able to configure a lot of games to be essentially one handed

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
    4·
    23 hours ago

    Check out brotato. It’s a cheap game but it’s got an addictive gameplay loop, all you have to do is move a character around. I’ve put over 100 hours into it, and each session is pretty short.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      This, and other games like it can be played with 1 finger:

      • Brotato
      • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
      • Megabonk
      • Holocure (100% free)