Long story short, I was trying to make some pork buns and it ended with the tip of my thumb being sliced off, after hospital visit and six stitches and back. But I’m kind of bored out of my mind. Can’t do the steam deck. Can’t do really anything with a controller. I have a large library of games, most of which I haven’t even played. Anything that might be good for me? I could always put some hours into rimworld
Welcome to the club! I did the same thing with a meat slicer about 20 years ago. My thumb was flat at the tip of the nail for a long time, but it’s grown back since then.
Turn based games are great for one handed, because you can take your time hitting the buttons. Maybe slay the spire, Inscryption or balatro if you haven’t tried those yet.
I second this is hurt my thumb real bad a few years back. Lot of the old Final fantasy games are great. I ended up most of the way the original VII on the PSX. Lot of the new ones are quick action. Chron Trigger and Earthbound are also good ones as well on the SNES
I did the same! Unrelated to my thumb, but I played through Final Fantasy 4-6 and had a blast. I started 7, but I might be the only person on the planet that doesn’t enjoy it.
Just about anything that is turn based. Board games ports, Roguelike games like Balatro, Slay the Spire, 9 Kings. Civilization games and Civ-likes. You can even play ttrpg ports like Baldur’s Gate and Divinity but it might be a little annoying without an RPG mouse. I played a lot of Civ when my left arm was paralyzed then weirdly Wii tennis after surgery.
Vampire Survivors really only requires one hand, and if you use steam input to remap some buttons you can play it entirely with one hand.
For instance on the left hand side, since you navigate with the joystick, I set the d-pad to mirror the abxy buttons, and set L2 to be R1 which let’s you increase the game speed after you unlock the function in game
God i wish I could map buttons on ps5
Steam Input is so fucking awesome, it really deserves so much more attention imo
Its the game I boot up when the cat decides my arm is the only place that will suffice as a bed
Anything on PC with a mouse/keyboard, maybe with the spacebar remapped.
This was my immediate thought…tons of games that don’t need spacebar at all.
I’m late, game recommendations are covered, but I can give you advice for healing your thumb. I’ve had the tips of my thumb and a finger glued back on as well as stitches on my fingers several times.
Blood flow to the tip is important. Squeezing a stress ball or something helps. It’ll also keep the skin from healing too… tightly? If that makes sense.
Keep it dry. If you need to bandage it, do it loosely and change it often. Cotton balls work really well to keep it dry as well as protect it from accidental impacts.
If the doctor didn’t do a good job, trim the stitches so they don’t catch on anything. If you’re in America, take the stitches out yourself after 10-14 days or as soon as you can wiggle them freely. Nail clippers work really well to cut the stitch and pull it out.
If you rip a stitch, you can use a careful dab of super glue to close it. Just make sure it’s clean and dry first.
If you cut through the nail, it’ll grow back kinda fucked up. My nail healed in an M shape and dirt would get trapped in the middle so I put some Vaseline or something under it to keep it clean.
Last but not least, you have a small window in which fingerprint evidence may be inadmissable in a court of law. Do with this information as you will.
Some other options.
If you have a joystick or wheel, flight Sims, space sims, racing games might be possible.
RTS games in single player mode (just play on an easier difficulty). Plenty of decent ones have been released in the last little while. Also, maybe 4x games, total war etc.
Digital Board Games might work too.
dance dance revolution, while wacking it.
Return of the Obra Dinn and the golden idol games would probably work. I think you could do everything with mouse clicks or hitting a few keys with your good hand, nothing is time based. Other puzzle based games might work too (lorelai and the laser eye, Blue Prince?)
Mostly 2D factory games, like Factorio could also be doable. Would be a little annoying, but it would work.
Dunno if you’ve seen Seance at Blake Manor, but it’s really fucking good.
It’s like Blue Prince + Golden Idol + Danganronpa
Thanks, looks interesting, added to the list.
Magic the Gathering: Arena
Join us
Most visual novels should suffice if you like those. VA-11 Hall-A is great (though best if can hold a drink in the other hand)
Oh, and point-and-click adventure are usually also controllable with just a mouse.
It’s been a frickin minute but I used to love little busters and another popular one I forget it’s name
If you like stories: I recently fell in love with Oxenfree, and you should, too.
If you like RimWorld, you could give Oxygen Not Included a go.
Looks very fun, although I have given ONI a go, it gets surprisingly hard later on
Indeed. I never said I liked it :D
Oh, thanks for reminding me, it’s about time for my yearly replay of it! Such a fantastic visual novel.
XCom
Or I guess anything with keyboard/mouse.
Pokémon Let’s Go [Eevee / Pikachu] can be played with a single joycon vertical in one hand. They designed it to be played with their Pokéball controller, accidentally making it super accessible.
They made it one-handed for a different reason…
Papers, Please on desktop and Shattered Pixel Dungeon on mobile
I hear pocket pool is a lot of fun.
Dang it!! I should have read the comments before I made the exact same joke. Something about great minds I guess.
Gooning can be done one handed. If you need to use the other hand, stick with an index or middle finger.
