u/forbidincontext

Hello! I've seen these great videos on YouTube of gamers getting their folks to play games with them for the first time, and since my dad originally bought my first games some 35 years ago but hasn't played a moment since, I thought I'd see what he thought of the idea of trying one of today's games.

Turns out he's avoided it because he no longer has feeling in the thumb, index, and middle fingers of his left hand after a tendon injury. For what he remembers of controllers, he thinks they are totally out of the question and was surprised by the idea of a keyboard + mouse setup but I know there are controllers out there with additional buttons and configurations and I use macros and such to combat my own arthritis, so I think there might be some concepts and possibilities out there he's not aware of, and that I likely am not either.

Nevertheless, he says if I can figure out a way he can play, he's down to try, as long as I don't spend 'a lot' of money on adaptive controllers or anything along those lines.

Quest accepted!

I'm certain that I can come up with something he can use and I can already think of a few mouse-only games that I already own that he could try, but most are single player and I really had something more involved in mind for some shared gaming time. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any obvious answers I'm overlooking?