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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.

Most visual novels should suffice if you like those. VA-11 Hall-A is great.

Which thumb? If your left thumb is still functional, when I had a hand injury in middle school, I got to be really good at Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2. If your dominant/mouse hand is still functional, anything mouse-driven ought to do, and that covers a wide range of genres from CRPGs to adventure games to 4X games and more.

I hear pocket pool is a lot of fun.

Have you considered vampire survivors? That’s a fun one on iOS and android.

Have you considered pocket ball?

Point and click?

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

Is “Can’t do the steam day.” slang I don’t know or a typo I can’t decipher?

Fruit Ninja comes to mind.

Does this actually get in the way when you’re playing with mouse and keyboard? I do use my thumb for hitting the space, alt and strg keys, but in many games kinda optional, especially when the games aren’t super challenging. Turn-based RPGs like Divinity: Original Sin or Baldur’s Gate 3 should work great.

Turn based RPGs would be good. You could use the controller one handed. Especially things made for game boy, since there aren’t a lot of buttons.

Balatro, Dwarf Fortress/Rimworld, pokerogue

Turn-based?

You can probably play Vampire Survivors. All you really do is move around.

dance dance revolution, while wacking it.

Might not be in your library, but mouse only game I’ve been enjoying is beat cop.

80s love letter to cop games, in the style of papers please. Reviews are a little mixed, it is a particular game, and it’s 80s warts and all. On sale currently.

store.steampowered.com/app/461950/Beat_Cop/

Civilization 7 only requires one hand using a mouse, which includes the Switch 2.

Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3 (mobile games). An interesting set of puzzle games with good visuals. They only require single taps to work.

Also can get a mouse for the Steam Deck (or a PC if you have one). There are a lot of good games that you can likely use with a mouse if the hand/wrist motion doesn’t cause pain or discomfort for your thumb.

Balatro and Into The Breach

Shapez or shapez 2 are really good factory games that dont really require a lot of thumb movement, else play the west of loathing, this one is fantastic turn styled rpg rame where you go west after the cows came home, also there is a spittoon, you can reach into it, and have the narrator describe the horrors you feel whilst poking around in there to fish out a assortment of spit infused garbage to wear on your person

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.

Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku

Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc

Sins of a Solar Empire. It’s a space based strategy game that I’ve sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I’d play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I’m not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.

• Anything turn-based, especially mouse-driven titles. Slay the Spire, Chess, Riichi Mahjong, Balatro, etc.

• Puyo Puyo Champions has a one-handed preset in its controller options. Do note that if you want to play online, only Switch is active since that's where Japan is, I can't recommend the game on other platforms.

• Kirby Air Ride uses only one button + analog stick, and any button works, so you can use L. Would have to be left hand for the original, but the sequel coming out later this month has a detailed accessibility menu, which I bet will include right-handed settings.

• Crypt of the Necrodancer is designed to be playable with just four arrows, in case anyone wanted to play it on a DDR mat. Which also means you can play with arrow keys or WASD.

• Rhythm Doctor is actually just one button.

• Rhythm Heaven Fever uses only A and B. Rhythm Heaven DS uses only stylus. The rest of the series uses d-pad as well though, so those are less playable.

• Come to think of it, any DS game that only uses stylus.

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.

Any points and click adventure game, there are loads including old classics and modern good games.

Monkey Island remasters are fun and can be played with mouse. Broken Sword games are also good.

Rusty Lake games are great if you prefer more puzzle games than narrative ones. Still has a great somewhat surreal plot just not like a point and click narrative game.

Also If you havent played dwarf fortress now is the time to learn, the siege update came out this week. Mouse or keyboard, or both, but definitely can be done one handed.

Vampire Survivor that others have suggested is a good shout, one hand on the keyboard is enough and its very addictive.

If you can still use a mouse well, grand strategy games can be a lot of fun. Despite all the (deserved) criticism they get, paradox games are a lot of fun. (and their modern ones even feel like a full game without having to buy any dlc) They can be a bit difficult to keep up with without a keyboard though so play on lower speeds.

If you are more concious about who you give your money to, endless legend 2 is a 4x published by hooded horse that is a lot of fun (think civ but fantasy) and since it is turn based it is a lot easier to play with just a mouse.

Masturbation! If you’ve never played, give it a shot. It can be a slow starter, but that ending…

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