Hi people, I currently have two friends who injured their dominant arm in unrelated accidents and mostly can’t do anything but sit around and watch movies.

I’d like to gift them some games to play with just one hand. Not the hentai variant, but something to keep them occupied with.

Both own a steam deck. One is more into cozy games like Dorfromantik and the other into RPGs like BG3.

One Finger Death Punch would be a good example as you can remap controls so you only need to press left and right on the D-Pad, but both of them don’t really like that game.

Do you know any games which can be played with one hand, preferably a controller or Steam deck? Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying…

  • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Crypt of the Necrodancer is great fun if they don’t have it already.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Especially with the Multiverse mod!

        (though it’s much harder to install on Linux than it has any right to be)

          • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 day ago

            You’re welcome! I’ve played it a bunch, it’s essentially FTL 1.5 and extremely well made. Hope you have fun playing it!

            In case you’re running on Linux, be warned that you might have to add a SELinux exception. Hit me up if that’s the case, I’ll try to find the commands.

  • Peaches@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Most my time with Crypt of the Necrodancer was during a hand injury. It’s of course a pretty intense game though, so it’s not for everyone.

  • disposabletentacle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t understand. You have two friends, each with a good arm, that’s two good arms. Tape your friends together and have them coordinate and BAM: two-handed gaming.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      sadly they live 80km apart from each other, and both are right handed, so they couldn’t face each other while playing. We’d need a pretty weird dual-monitor setup if we’d tape them together.

    • wia@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      My SO and I died this during a stream once. I don’t know why lol.

      We played Hades. I was right, she was left. It started as a joke but we actually made it decently far lol.

    • Socket462@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That sounds like a good plot for an episode in a tv show. I sense potential here. Haha

  • Harlehatschi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ve been playing Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel recently on PC and despite being relatively action heavy it’s 99% left hand (WASD + Q + space)

  • JackRider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    A Short Hike might be a solid pick. It’s super chill, no stress, and you can get away with playing it mostly with just the left stick and a button or two — easy to remap if needed. Spiritfarer could also work, though it might take a little tweaking depending on how much movement they can handle.

  • Riley@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You might be interested in the videos made by Champutee, a one-armed gamer who has done several experiments with both genres and controllers to continue enjoying gaming.

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    One really handy thing with the Steam Deck is the ability to remap all of the buttons (as well as the two paddles on the back for each hand), so one could probably make a decent one-handed control setup for 99% of turn-based games. Even ones that require the use of the mouse, given the Deck’s touchpads.

    Vampire Survivors requires nothing except the stick/dpad outside of menus (and I’m pretty sure you can use the touchscreen for menus, too).

    If your friend(s) are stuck using the dpad, it might not be suitable, but Crypt of the Necrodancer only requires four buttons or left, right, up, and down (and you can assign buttons for the button combos normally required to do things like use bombs). This assumes that they like rhythm games.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I remember that the dev of Legend of Grimrock added an option for movement with the mouse because a disabled gamer wanted to play. Maybe that second friend should check that and the 2nd game out.

    Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying…

    Yeah, for PC they’ll probably have to grit their teeth and power through the discomfort. An alternative is getting a hand in some old emulated games. Anything from the NES era can be mapped to 4 movements + 4 buttons (start, select, A, B), which on a keyboard could be WASD + Q, E, R and F. Dunno how to set something similar on a Deck.