Civ

Caves of Qud is a really neat turn based roguelike that kinda focuses on exploration. It’s a bit hard to get into but if you do it’s really neat. Very very keyboard friendly, its my go-to game on my laptop.

It has difficulty modes that are… Less hard lol

Anything that is turn-based will work really, or doesn’t rely on a real-time mechanic.

I do suggest looking at a small trackball that you can use in the meantime. It’ll be useful for the times when you need a pointing device in a smaller space, for whatever reason.

Anything that is turn-based will work really, or doesn’t rely on a real-time mechanic.

I do suggest looking at a small trackball that you can use in the meantime. It’ll be useful for the times when you need a pointing device in a smaller space, for whatever reason.

Do you like rpg card games? It’s on my android but tavern rumble has been super fun for me recently. I wonder if you can find it on pc

Vampire Survivors?

If you have a tablet or a large phone, maybe board games? Some boardgame apps have excellent campaign modes. My go to for this is Galaxy Trucker, but it has a time pressure component.

If you’re willing to bend on the RTS thing, Tooth and Tail is an RTS game that is almost completely played with your left hand in keyboard mode - it’s an RTS designed for gamepads so it only uses wasd and like 6 action buttons (rally selected, rally all, cycle selection forward, cycle back, build, sell). It uses the mouse buttons to click for the rally commands but not the pointing by default, you could rebind the mouse click rally commands to like lshift and ctrl or something like that and it should work well. But the single player campaign does get difficult towards the halfway mark

Racing games in general, personally I like Forza Horizon 5, you could play it with WASD and a spacebar

Runescape

Are you sure it has to be keyboard-only? Would a mouse or cheap touchpad work with your off hand, so long as the games don’t require fast response or fine accuracy?

Slay the Spire is a mouse-driven deck-builder.

Crypt of the Necrodancer is a rhythm-based roguelike that uses only four keys to play.

Both are excellent.

You might have some luck with a controller, using only a half of it, and re-mapping all controls there. Steam Controller might be great since it has touchpads. That might make some mouse-requiring games playable.

Using only keyboard, damn that’s difficult to find something, haha. I think these might work, just going by my memory: FTL, Toki Tori, Undertale, VVVVVV, Braid, Dome Keeper. Basically that kind of simple 2D games. Then almost any racing game.

You could also try some eye tracking solution, can’t help with that though.

Civ V/Civ VI can all be played entirely with a mouse. Very fun, too.

First thing that came to mind was FTL: Faster Than Light. I used to play on a laptop with no mouse and a lousy touchpad, so I became familiar with the hot-keys.

You can pause the game at any point to stage your attack / defense. Most commands have hot-keys you can press, rather than point and clicking. You might need to use the mouse for a few parts, but given the ability to always pause the game (I think it’s game mechanic really) you shouldn’t have too much trouble since you’re under little pressure to do so quickly.

FTL: Faster Than Light, an incredible rouge-like in space

Pros:

• All actions have a leyboard shortcut

• you can pause anytime and plan ahead

• will satisfy your analytical brain that needs puzzles

• randomized, each game will be different

• can be played in short bursts should you get tired with the cast or whatever on

• is amazing

• randomized

• dirt cheap

Cons:

• you still need to use the mouse to aim weapons, albeit no need to be ultra precise…most of the time
• randomized…will punish you sometimes so you just have to take it on the chin. Part of the fun and all that.