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This list aims to highlight games that off features that ease the cognitive load on the player in terms of managing interactions, gathering information, navigating the world and reducing distractions.

As part of our Accessibility Report, this page lists games that have been flagged with some of the following accessibility:

Controls: How you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Motion: Games that can be played with different sorts of motion controllers.

Motion Aiming

Button Combinations: Specific button operation required to play

Holding Down Buttons Optional, Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional or No Simultaneous Buttons

Controller Vibration:

Informative Vibration

Difficulty: How you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Difficulty Options:

Select Difficulty or Customise Difficulty

Getting Started: 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. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

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.

Practice Area, Assistance With Controls, Reaction-Time Not Critical, Low Pressure or Adjust Speed

Assistance For Progressing: These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Assisted Progress With Boosts, Assisted Progress With Hints, Assisted Recall for Characters or Save Progress Anytime

Reading: 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. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Subtitles:

All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game)

Voice Acted:

All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game)

Navigation: 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. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Clarity:

Large Clear Navigation or Clear Mission Objectives

Head-Up Display:

Head-Up Display Navigation, Adjust Head-Up Display or Game Map

Visual: How you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Interactive Elements:

Outline Interactive Elements

Audio Cues for Visual Events:

Audio Cues for Visual Events

Audio: How you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Audio Events:

Visual Cues for Audio Events

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is the action-adventure sequel to Marvel's Spider-Man and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales where you shoot webs to swing around New York and defeat supervillains.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is the action-adventure sequel to Marvel's Spider-Man and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales where you shoot webs to swing around New York and defeat supervillains. Along with the usual fast-paced, fluid action and web-slinging traversal, this game adds a flight suit for rapid movement through the skyline, an expanded map, and broadened combat abilities.

God of War Ragnarök, the sequel to 2018's God of War, is a hard-hitting fighting narrative game where you traverse the world to battle Norse creatures and gods to prevent Ragnarök, the prophesied end of the world.

God of War Ragnarök, the sequel to 2018's God of War, is a hard-hitting fighting narrative game where you traverse the world to battle Norse creatures and gods to prevent Ragnarök, the prophesied end of the world. It continues the first game's story, following Kratos as he desperately tries to shield his son from conflict in the hope of changing his destiny.

The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game set five years after The Last of Us.

The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game set five years after The Last of Us. You control two characters in a post-apocalyptic United States.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a fighting-adventure game and a sequel to 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a fighting-adventure game and a sequel to 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order. As in that game, you explore and fight enemies with your lightsaber and force powers, but here you also have a blaster and new lightsaber fighting styles.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game that recreates the Dungeons & Dragons experience in a digital world.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game that recreates the Dungeons & Dragons experience in a digital world. You explore the world and fight enemies by rolling dice and weighing up your stats to see what happens.

Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe.

Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies.

Halo Infinite is the latest release in the longstanding Halo series of first-person shooting games.

Halo Infinite is the latest release in the longstanding Halo series of first-person shooting games. This latest entry continues the story, while adding new abilities, such as the grapple and weapons, differentiating it from the other games and adding a new layer of strategy and tactics.

Diablo IV, the latest game in the Diablo series, is an action role-playing game where you fight against an ancient evil.

Diablo IV, the latest game in the Diablo series, is an action role-playing game where you fight against an ancient evil. You explore dungeons and ruins, fight off enemies, grow in strength, and collect different items to power up your character.

Taming Gaming Book Written by parents for parents, the database complements the in-depth discussion about video game addiction, violence, spending and online safety in the Taming Gaming book. We are an editorially independent, free resource without adverts that is supported by partnerships.

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