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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.
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.
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.
I enjoyed Cadence of Hyrule a lot more than Crypt of the Necrodancer for some reason. Maybe I just love the setting of Hyrule that much more. Probably just the overall polish on the game. But that's an easy recommendation.
CoH's control scheme requires both hands, so I can't recommend it to OP. But I'll also have to say that I have the opposite opinion, CoH was good for a casual playthrough but wasn't something I could sink several hundred hours into like the original. The overworld made runs much longer and much more repetitive since a lot of it is always the same.
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
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.
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.
Might be fine with space bar as-is. I use the side of my thumb for the space bar, not the tip.
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.
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.
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Lots of game recommendations here, but for hardware, look for a cheap MMO mouse. All the buttons you could ask for, on a single hand. Could unlock more games.
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.
Like others said, any turn-based game. Currently ~~suffering~~ enjoying SMT III Nocturne, others I've played are Octopath, Fire Emblem, Pokemon (esp Mystery Dungeon), Atlus in general. Balatro sounds nice. Rhythm heaven is WarioWare + Music, and that's definitely doable one-handed, especially the Wii version. My mom said Fortune Street (Monopoly but Mario + Dragon Quest) lol.
Mobile games can be very doable, a cute one I remember is Candies n' Curses, a game where you swipe to direct the character around a haunted mansion and fight bosses. Easily can be played with one hand. If you can tolerate gachas, Cookie Run Kingdom can be put on auto so you don't have to tap much, I just like the story and characters. I think Geometry dash can be doable on low levels with one hand?
Find your inner weeabo and play some Japanese visual novels. Or if you're a normal person then Ace Attorney would be a fantastic choice, and is a long-ass series. Prepare for courtroom bullshit and jokes.
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Can't do the steam deck.
You can, as long as the game works based on touch input only.
So games like Civ 5, Shadowrun, Slay The Spire, Mini Metro should be fine.
Baldur's gate 3 is totally playable with 1 hand.
Thank god, otherwise how would we cope with that stupid sexy Withers?
Balatro, Dwarf Fortress/Rimworld, pokerogue
+1 for Balatro.
Gooning can be done one handed. If you need to use the other hand, stick with an index or middle finger.
The Civ games are great one handed as they are turn based. Civ 5 and 6 are what kept me sane when I broke my hand just before COVID lockdown
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.
One Finger Death Punch
Chess on lichess
XCom
Or I guess anything with keyboard/mouse.
Civilization 7 only requires one hand using a mouse, which includes the Switch 2.
The android port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is amazing! Id recommend turning on all the pause options, it effectively turns it into turn based combat. The gui is incredibly intuitive, and you can perform all of your actions either with a stylus or even a single finger. If you like star wars or dnd, its basically guaranteed to be a fun game. Do note though that you will want to install the Restored Content mod, which will require either a rooted android or a computer to allow you to install the mod. It fixes a massive amount of potentially game breaking bugs and restores a bunch of cut content. Not sure what happened with the development of the game, but im guessing the studio forced it to be released before it was complete.
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.
If you can still use a mouse well, grand strategy games can be played with one hand. 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 very good (think civ but fantasy) and since it is turn based it is a lot easier to play with just a mouse.
if they are still active the mmo's champions online and star trek online are tab targeting and even allow for some scripting. I actually had posted on reddit that I would like for people with disabilities to know about them. the right builds can be done with input every so often that does not need to be split second (some roles do require a bit more timing but if its just one handed its toatlly doable)
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.
Vampire Survivors
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
