What I am searching for is for games that support touch screens and can be played with 1 finger / one hand. No action games with fake joysticks on the screen, just games that work with a single finger or at least one hand while lying in bed and trying to wind down. One very good example is Civilization V, which has a dedicated touch screen mode and is a turn based game. Also the windows included card games work good.

I tried to search for games on Steam, but unfortunately there is rarely a tag for touch screen support. Even Civ V with its dedicated touch screen mode has no tags telling about it in the Steam store, so it is hard to find games that work well.

I thought the “The Room” series could work well, because they are awesome on IOS devices, but the Windows version on a touch screen is cumbersome to use. So you can not even look out for mobile games that also exist for Windows.

If someone has some recommendations, I would appreciate that very much :-)

Edit: Changed Civ IV to V!

  • fri@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t test most of these personally on a touch screen, but they seem like good candidates to check:

    • Pawnbarian
    • Osmos
    • Hexcells (+ Hexcells Plus + Hexcells Infinite)
    • Frog Detective (+ 2 + 3)
    • The Witness
    • Taiji
    • shapez
    • Her Story
    • Eufloria
    • KAMI
    • Hook (+ 2)
    • The Pedestrian
    • Subsurface Circular
    • Dorfromantik
    • Polychromia
    • Hidden Folks
    • Cogs
    • buedi@feddit.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      That´s quite a list! Thank you :-) I even have a few on that list and will try them out. I did not think about The Witness, but it´s worth a try. I did not finis it on PC, but it has some really hard puzzles in it that keep you occupied for a while at the same place without the need to move around a lot.

      The Hexcells series is awesome, played through all of them (of course not through all the random ones in Infinite ;-)), but might be worth to try again on the tablet. I tried Tametsi (also a puzzler), but it did not scale with the High DPI screen and was super tiny.

  • frog 🐸@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ll need to double check them on my touchscreen laptop this evening, but 95% sure that both Dorfromantik and Townscaper work well with the touchscreen, and they’re also some of the calmest games in existence. I’ll also check Stardew Valley, which I haven’t played on my laptop, but the Android version is compatible with touchscreen so the Windows version may be too.

    • buedi@feddit.deOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh yes, Dorfromantik! I have this on my radar for a while. It looks so lovely. I did not know about Townscaper, but that looks very chill too.

      I have Stardew Valley already, never thought about trying it on the tablet, but that´s something I will do. I love this game, but only played it with Mouse & Keyboard so far.

      Thank you very much for your suggestions :-)

    • buedi@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had a good laugh looking at the Video on Steam. I am not sure if this will help me to wind-down, more something I might rage-quit in the middle of the night and then need a coffee to calm down again :-> But it does look pretty fun. Thanks for the suggestion :-)