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Xbox X|SWe've documented 26 accessibility features for Rotwood, including Low Pressure, No Button Combos, Remap Buttons, Play Without Hearing and Colour Blind Friendly. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Visual but it also has features in Navigation, Reading, Getting Started and Audio 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.
Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Rotwood accessibility 10 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 10 weeks ago.
Accessibility Notes
There are no difficulty settings, and dying is part of the game. As you get better gear, you progress, and each part of the game slowly gets easier. You need to quickly attack and move by pressing buttons rapidly. Holds are required for some actions. Multiple inputs at once aren't needed. You can remap the keyboard controls, but not those on the mouse (your light and heavy attack). You can make your character face the direction of the cursor, or make them always face the direction they're moving.
Text is high in contrast but less than 1/20th of the screen height, and subtitles are all captioned with a speech bubble and the character's name
Each area is only as big as the screen, and you can advance to the next screen only after defeating every enemy, so navigation is never an issue. The objective is also always obvious (kill everything). You can view a map of where you've come from and what you did on each screen, but you can't go back to previous areas. Some enemies and attacks can be low in contrast and therefore hard to see.
You can disable flashes and screen shake effects.
Game Details
Controls
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Controls in Rotwood 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.
Mouse And Keyboard
Can play with the following:
Mouse and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.
Remap Controls
Can customise the controls for the game as follows:
Remap Buttons: Can re-map all buttons so that you can use alternatives that better suit your play.
Remap Mouse and Keyboard: Can remap mouse and keyboard key bindings, on systems that support these controls.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Minecraft Dungeons (12 Controls Features)
- Hades (9 Controls Features)
- Death's Door (8 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Rotwood 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 Rotwood, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (2 Difficulty Features)
- Minecraft Dungeons (2 Difficulty Features)
- Hades (2 Difficulty Features)
- Rogue Legacy (2 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Getting Started in Rotwood 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.
Practice Area: You can practice freely without opponents or time pressures. This can be a specific practice option, or the ability to play levels with the easiest opponents to improve understanding and skill.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Minecraft Dungeons (6 Getting Started Features)
- Master Key (5 Getting Started Features)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (5 Getting Started Features)
- Hades (5 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in Rotwood 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.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (5 Reading Features)
- Enter The Gungeon (5 Reading Features)
- Assault Android Cactus (5 Reading Features)
- Minecraft Dungeons (5 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Navigation in Rotwood 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
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.
Clear Mission Objectives: The game provides clear, structured missions with directional guidance and advice on which can be attempted next. This also indicates (ideally on maps where they are provided) which missions can't be attempted because you do not have the appropriate items yet.
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.
Menu Navigation
Digital Menu Navigation: Menu choices with Gamepad can be made without using an analogue stick to guide a cursor to a selection. For example, using D-Pad, buttons or the Stick to change menu selection in a single action.
Menus Don't Wrap: Menus don't wrap and stop the cursor at the bottom of the list if you press down. Or menus do wrap but make it clear that you are back at the top of the list with sound or narration.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Minecraft Dungeons (10 Navigation Features)
- Lake of Creatures (7 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Visual in Rotwood 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 Flashes: No flashing strobe effects or you can disable them. This includes the absence of flashing from dramatic visual effects, explosions or weather effects like lightning.
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.
No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.
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.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Visual accessibility:
- Minecraft Dungeons (7 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in Rotwood 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 Rotwood, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Audio accessibility:
- Enter The Gungeon (3 Audio Features)
Communication
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Communication in Rotwood which deal with how you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction. The following games are similar to Rotwood, and offer accessibility features for Communication:
- Minecraft Dungeons (1 Communication Feature)
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
