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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Accessibility ReportWe've documented 16 accessibility features for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, including Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, Control Assists, Play Without Hearing and Visual Cues. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Reading but it also has features in Controls, Navigation, Visual and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Everybody's Gone to the Rapture accessibility 21 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
The game is low-pressure although difficult to progress. You need to visit the right locations and interact with specific on-screen elements.
The majority of the game is voiced. Subtitles can be turned on, but are small, without background blocking and not adjustable. Can play with mouse or gamepad. The simplified controls option means you don't need fine motion control to focus on orbs in the game.
You can turn on a crosshair to help orient yourself and help with motion sickness. You can also turn off motion blur. The Audio Aid option provides visual clues about the direction and location of sounds. You can adjust the game brightness.
You can view a game map, but only when you go to the map boards in the game.
Game Details
Release Date: 12/08/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Content Rating: PEGI 16
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Narrative (Communication and Traversal)
Accessibility: 16 features
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Developer: Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Controls in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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.
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Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:
Getting Started
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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.
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.
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.
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Reading
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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.
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.
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.
Voice Acted
Some Dialogue is Voice Acted: Some of the game dialogue and narrative is voice acted. This reduces the pressure on reading all the dialogue text, although not everything is provided audibly.
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Navigation
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Navigation in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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.
Clarity
Visual Directional Cues: Additional in-game visual cues that signpost where to go next and how close you are to arriving. This can be with camera movement to focus on your destination or important items. It can use light, breadcrumb trails, in-world pointers to identify your mission's target location.
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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Visual
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 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.
Audio Events
Visual Cues for Audio Events: Text or other visual indicators of audio events. This mirrors audio indicators of progress in the game with a corresponding visual indication.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
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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.
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Andy Robertson
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