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Xbox X|SWe've documented 18 accessibility features for Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, including Large Subtitles, Large Text, Guaranteed Progress, Low Pressure and Select Difficulty. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Reading but it also has features in Controls, Visual, Difficulty and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Andrea Walney, first checked Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale (Dreams) accessibility 2 years ago.
Accessibility Notes
There is a setting to change text to be more readable, but this is only available at the beginning of the game, and only affects the explorer notes.
As with most Dreams games this will save your progress within whole levels only and will not save checkpoints if you leave the game.
Game Details
Release Date: 30/11/2021, updated in 2021
Price: Free
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Players: 1-2
Genres: Fighting, Traversal (Action, Adventure and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 18 features
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Developer: Media Molecule (@MediaMolecule)
Costs: Free
Controls
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Controls in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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 & Single Stick: Can play with multiple buttons and a stick.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
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.
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If you want to play Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (9 Controls Features)
- Biomutant (9 Controls Features)
- It Takes Two (9 Controls Features)
- Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (7 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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.
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If you want to play Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Difficulty accessibility:
- Tunic (2 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Getting Started in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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.
View Control Mapping: You can view a map of controls during play. This clearly displays the mappings of actions to buttons/keys/mouse/keyboard without having to leave the game. This includes games that always display buttons to press during play.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Guaranteed Progress With God Mode: There is no fail state for any game level, where you lose progress or have to start again. Or there are options to make failing impossible: infinite health or lives, unlimited time. Sometimes called God Mode or Unfailable.
Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Getting Started accessibility:
- Biomutant (6 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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.
Moderate Reading: Moderate reading required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a high school student (14-year-old) would appreciate.
Text Visibility
Large Clear Text: All essential text is large and clear or can be adjusted to be. The general text used throughout the game in menus, instructions and other key information (excluding subtitles that are assessed separately) is at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height on landscape screens and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters.
Subtitles
Large Clear Subtitles: Subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast. They are at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height of a landscape screen and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens, or can be adjusted to be. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters. Considered separately from the general text of the game, the subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast.
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.
Captions
Speaker Indicator: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
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If you want to play Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Biomutant (7 Reading Features)
- It Takes Two (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Navigation in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale which deal 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. The following games are similar to Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, and offer accessibility features for Navigation:
- Biomutant (6 Navigation Features)
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (5 Navigation Features)
- Journey to the Savage Planet (3 Navigation Features)
- Tunic (3 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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 Screen Shake: No screen shake effect or it is included but it can be disabled. This includes the absence of screen shake for dramatic effect as well as to indicate hits on a target.
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.
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If you want to play Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (5 Visual Features)
- Biomutant (5 Visual Features)
- Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (5 Visual Features)
- Kingdom Hearts (5 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale 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 Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Biomutant (2 Audio Features)
- Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (2 Audio Features)
- Tunic (2 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).
PlayStation 5
PlayStation 5 has a range of system-wide accessibility settings.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Andrea Walney
