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Signalis

Accessibility Report

17 Accessibility Features

We've documented 17 accessibility features for Signalis, including Control Assists, Select Difficulty, No Holds, Colour Blind Friendly and Fully Subtitled (Or No Speech). Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Visual but it also has features in Getting Started, Difficulty, Reading, Navigation and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.

This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.

Signalis is a puzzle, shooting and survival game with horror elements where you search a desolate alien planet for your missing partner. You gather resources and weapons and use them to defeat robotic enemies and solve puzzles to advance through the nightmarish landscape. It's not only a unique blend of puzzles and firefights that weaves in a philosophical narrative about human existence and the purpose of life.

Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Signalis accessibility 17 months ago.

Accessibility Notes

The controls require precise timings and rapid button presses. You can toggle whether you want sprinting to be a hold or a toggle function. In the settings, you can change the difficulty (three levels to pick from) of the combat under the setting labelled Combat Accessibility, but only at the start of the game. The puzzle difficulty cannot be altered, and some require significant thought for a prolonged period of time, sometimes up to and in excess of half an hour. You can make it so that your weapon automatically reloads. Some of the puzzles require you to do an action within a certain time.

You can only save at certain points, so it is possible to lose a significant amount of progress when you die if you haven't saved for a while.

Much of the text throughout the game is quite small and can be low contrast, and although the subtitles are high contrast, they are not very large.

Some of the puzzles can be hard to understand at first, and often the objective isn't immediately clear.

Much of the game is very dark, and because of this and the small size of some items, it can be difficult to distinguish some things from others. There are lots of screen effects present, many of which can be disabled, but there will always be flashes and occasional screen-shake effects.

Some of the puzzles rely on sound.

Game Details

Release Date: 27/10/2022, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Brain Game, Shooting (Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Puzzle)

Accessibility: 17 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: Last Starfarer (@LastStarfarer)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 8 accessibility features for Controls in Signalis which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.

Mouse And Keyboard

Can play with the following:

Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.

Remap Controls

Can customise the controls for the game as follows:

Select Preset Controller Mappings: You can select preset button layouts from options provided by the developer.

Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.

Button Combinations

Specific button operation required to play

Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons for prolonged periods (a second or more) is not required or can be switched to toggling the action on and off. This is in addition to the movement stick/button which is not considered a hold for this purpose.

Controller Vibration

Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.

Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates events or interactions in the game, echoing visual and audio cues. This can provide additional information about progress, approaching enemies or hitting a target.

Sensitivity

You can adjust

Adjust Mouse/Stick/Touch Sensitivity: Adjust how sensitive touch/mouse/stick controls are.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:

Bleak Sword DX (10 Controls Features)
Dead Space (10 Controls Features)
Demon Spore (10 Controls Features)
Resident Evil 4 (9 Controls Features)

Difficulty

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Signalis which deals with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.

Difficulty Options

Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:

Dead Space (2 Difficulty Features)
Vampire Survivors (2 Difficulty Features)
Alien: Isolation (2 Difficulty Features)
Cyberpunk 2077 (2 Difficulty Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Getting Started in Signalis which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance Getting Starting

These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.

Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.

Assistance With Controls: The game can automatically assist with aiming, steering, reloading, jumping, running etc. This reduces the challenge of certain aspects of play to remove barriers and make control of characters more accessible.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (7 Getting Started Features)
Demon Spore (6 Getting Started Features)
Hades (5 Getting Started Features)
Resident Evil 4 (4 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Reading in Signalis which deals with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.

Subtitles

All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (7 Reading Features)
Resident Evil 4 (6 Reading Features)
Dead Space (6 Reading Features)
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (5 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Signalis which deals with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Head-Up Display

Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

Dead Space (6 Navigation Features)
Vampire Survivors (5 Navigation Features)
Bleak Sword DX (4 Navigation Features)
Resident Evil 4 (4 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Visual in Signalis which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Visual Distractions

No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.

Motion Sickness Friendly

Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.

Colour Options

Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:

Dead Space (7 Visual Features)
Bleak Sword DX (6 Visual Features)
Death's Door (6 Visual Features)
Vampire Survivors (5 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Signalis which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.

Adjustable Audio

Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio

If you want to play Signalis, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:

Resident Evil 4 (3 Audio Features)
Vampire Survivors (3 Audio Features)
Enter The Gungeon (3 Audio Features)
Dead Cells (3 Audio Features)

System Accessibility Settings

In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:

Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.

PC
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators.

PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).

Xbox One
Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games.

Xbox Series X|S
Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games.

Read more about system accessibility settings.