Flatout 2 (and by extension Flatout Ultimate Carnage and Trail out) are all racing games that work great with just one hand.
Flatout 2 doesn't even have any functions on the mouse
(also I would argue that they are really cool arcade racing games)
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Anything turn-based and mouse-driven like Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, Baba is You, Inscryption, Super Auto Pets, Mega Knockdown, chess, riichi mahjong, visual novels, etc. Or anything turn-based in general regardless of control scheme if you're alright with playing slowly.
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Rhythm Doctor - A one button rhythm game.
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Crypt of the Necrodancer - This game's control scheme was designed to be possible to play it on a dance pad. Which means you can also just play it with WASD or arrow keys.
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I wanna shout out Puyo Puyo Champions since it actually has a one handed preset in its controller options. D-pad or ABXY to move and L1/L2 or R1/R2 to rotate. Caveat though is that the Steam version is not at all active online, I would strongly recommend getting it on Switch if you can.
Disco Elysium
OpenTTD, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
FTL
Get a controller. I once had a broken arm, too (my dominant arm, to make things worse), but my hands worked fine so I could use my controller without any problems. Hands layed in my lap with the controller, and I learned really fast not to move my whole body to steer vehicles 😅
Get well soon!
Balatro perhaps, the rougelike poker game
Won't hurt to try that: https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
Also, Audiosurf, EDGE and most racing games on PC depending on how you are comfortable to play them on KB.
And if you are into adventure books of games, The Walking Dead and other creations of that studio in that style usually need to select one of the options in dialogue and that's all.
CORRECTION: Mindustry doesn't have all on-screen buttons it has on mobile, particularly pause button, so it'd need to be binded somewhere accessible. Didn't know that. So it's stupidly easier to play on Android (free) with attached mouse than on PC shm.
Any classic RTS
Age Of Empires II
OpenRA
Roller Coaster Tycoon series
Theme Hospital / Twin Peaks Hospital
These are examples of games that can be played with just the mouse.
To expand on this, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 has a FOSS re-implementation called OpenRCT2, and it's considerably bettee than even the original. I'd recommend Planet Coaster, but honestly, I think the simplicity of RCT2 makes things a lot easier one-handed.
Balatro Rimworld Islanders FTL
Strategy games like X-Com
Bloons TD 6 if you're into mindless tower defending
vampire survivors
Turn based stuff is probably pretty safe, assuming that’s your jam. Been playing Rogue Trader and I think you can do most anything with the mouse.
Crusader kings!
You could play text based adventure games like Zork.
To be fair, any point and click game would work as they only need the mouse.
I am talking:
Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork Nemesis
Myst
Riven
I just realized that Papers please would be fine as well!
Oh and 80 days would also work
Worms Armageddon
HEAT 😏
Brotato
Dead Cells! Bind primary attack to space, secondary to c, and jump to w and it's a super chill game to play one-handed