There's a topic on the General forum where somebody is asking what games are suitable for one-handed play (this topic comes up from time to time), and I happened to think of this series and am wondering how one-handed friendly these games are. So, the question is: How easy is it to play these games with only one usable hand?

The VGA version of 1, as well as 3 and 4, are very one-handed friendly. 4 even has an autobattle system you can use, though combat is designed to be either mouse or keyboard.

The EGA versions of 1 and 2 ask you to type in commands - a little less one-handed friendly, though time freezes when you start typing so you have all the time you need.

The VGA fan remake of 2 has some extra commands on the left side of the keyboard for casting spells while asking you to use the numpad for combat by default, but you can change the controls in a menu. This is, by the way, something that doesn't come with the GOG pack, but is free to download from AGDI.

The fifth game is technically possible with just the mouse, but the game is sort of balanced around the idea of you using some of the abilities on your belt with the numbers above your keys - and some areas are tedious to navigate with just a mouse due to how the camera is positioned, though the converse is also true - some areas are much *easier* to navigate with the mouse.

In general, I would say every game is more one-handed friendly than the majority of games out there, but whether they're friendly enough I cannot say for sure.

Note that I would venture to say that King's Quest games would be very one-handed friendly, aside from Mask of Eternity. But then... most people tend to reject that game anyways.

Basically all point and click adventure games that use the mouse only are perfect for one hand play, because they assume you are playing only with a mouse, so all Sierra/Lucasarts games are good in that regard (actually Indiana Jones and the Atlantis has a fighting minigame, but I'm not sure if it's also controlled by the mouse or you're supposed to use the keyboard as well?).

I haven't played QfG 5 yet, is it possible to map those action keys? If yes, it could be one hand friendly like all the other ones if you can map them to different buttons on the mouse, so you'd have everything controlled by the mouse (as I'm guessing a one handed person would go for one of those 20 buttons on a mouse mouse).

And I agree with Zachovski, the VGA QfG (1, 3, 4) games are supposed to be played with only a mouse, so they're perfect. The battles in EGA 2 are controlled by numpad only, just like in the first EGA version (in the VGA version you can use either the mouse or the numpad). I actually enjoyed KQ8! But then again, I read a review and knew it was going to be an adventure RPG, so I was really excited about that (and the semi-open world), and loved the puzzles. The get across the river puzzle actually used to be one of my favourite ways to illustrate how point and click adventure games work, since it's so logical and most people probably won't play that game, so it doesn't spoil much. But now I usually just make up something instead.