Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories Accessibility Report - Mac and PC

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories Accessibility Report

We've documented 9 accessibility features for Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories, including Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, Fully Subtitled (Or No Speech), Save Anytime and Tutorials. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Visual but it also has features in Controls, Reading and Navigation to reduce unintended barriers.

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Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building. As you do you learn about the lives of the people that live there. You can manipulate the building to move floors between the past and present. As you understand each person's lives you can use this time-bending mechanic to change their lives.

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories

ACCESSIBILITY REPORT

Game Details

Release Date: 21/10/2020

Out Now: Mac and PC

Players: 1

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

Accessibility: 9 features

Components: 3D Third-Person

Developer: Rocketship Park (@Rocketship_Park)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Controls in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories which deals 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 Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse-button/mouse wheel.

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Difficulty

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories 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 Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:

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Getting Started

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories 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.

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.

Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.

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Reading

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Reading in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories 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.

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Navigation

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories 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.

Clarity

Large Clear Navigation: The in-game navigation and maps are clear to read. They offer large text and offer markers that are large and of high contrast. Where text or information is small, there are settings to zoom-in and increase visibility.

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Visual

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Contrast

Medium Contrast: Game uses generally well contrasting and bright visuals, or has a slider to make this the case.

Interactive Elements

Large Game Elements: Game characters and other elements are large and distinguishable. Enemies and player characters are at least 1/6 of the height of the screen. Or there is a zoom feature to make them larger.

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Audio

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Audio in Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories 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. The following games are similar to Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories, and offer accessibility features for Audio:

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 Andy Robertson