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10 Dead Doves

Accessibility Report

13 Accessibility Features

We've documented 13 accessibility features for 10 Dead Doves, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), No Quick Reactions, No Repeated Pressing, Play Without Hearing and Audio Cues. Its accessibility is strongest in Reading and Controls but it also has features in Getting Started, Visual, Audio and Navigation 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.

10 Dead Doves is a narrative puzzle game about a hike that turns into an unnerving horror story. You move through the world, investigating items to find subtle clues and solve puzzles, all the while experiencing surreal dreamlike sequences and meeting disturbing characters. It's a strange combination of comedic horror and road trip camaraderie

Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked 10 Dead Doves accessibility 13 months ago.

Accessibility Notes

You need to hold down the arrow keys to move, and must sometimes press multiple at a time. Rapid pressing is not needed. There are occasionally jump-scares and flashing light effects.

Text is high on contrast but often quite small.

Because the game is often puzzle-based, knowing what to do next can occasionally be unclear. The game sometimes uses colour to distinguish important items, such as red and green squares on a grid on which you input a code, which is of special note to red-green colourblind players. Additionally, the game often adjusts contrast greatly for dramatic effect, which can make distinguishing important interactive items very difficult.

Game Details

Release Date: 13/12/2024

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle (Point-and-Click and Traversal)

Accessibility: 13 features

Components: 3D Third-Person

Developer: Duonix Studios (@DuonixStudios)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Controls in 10 Dead Doves which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Mouse And Keyboard

Can play with the following:

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

Button Combinations

Specific button operation required to play

Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.

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Difficulty

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in 10 Dead Doves which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play. The following games are similar to 10 Dead Doves, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:

Alan Wake 2 (3 Difficulty Features)
Hello Neighbor 2 (1 Difficulty Feature)

Getting Started

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Getting Started in 10 Dead Doves 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.

Reaction-Time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions, or there are settings to lower the requirement for quick reactions. This means you don't need to quickly press a button in response to an on-screen prompt, target a fast-moving target or skillfully complete a scenario against the clock.

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Saltsea Chronicles (7 Getting Started Features)
Cube Escape Collection (6 Getting Started Features)
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Alan Wake 2 (5 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in 10 Dead Doves which deal 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.

Reading Level

How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.

Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.

Text Visibility

High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.

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.

Voice Acted

All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.

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Rusty Lake Hotel (7 Reading Features)
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Rusty Lake: Roots (6 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in 10 Dead Doves 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.

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Alan Wake 2 (5 Navigation Features)
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (4 Navigation Features)
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Ruin (3 Navigation Features)
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (3 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in 10 Dead Doves which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Audio Cues for Visual Events

Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.

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.

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Audio

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in 10 Dead Doves which deal 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.

Play Without Hearing

Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio

If you want to play 10 Dead Doves, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Audio accessibility:

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (3 Audio Features)

System Accessibility Settings

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

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.

Read more about system accessibility settings.

Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall