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Best Video Games with "1 Button" Accessibility Settings

As part of our Accessibility Report, this page lists games that have been flagged with Controls - Gamepad accessibility (how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs) for the following:

1 Button: Can play with a single button.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Release Date: 28/04/2017, updated in 2022

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a go-kart racing game where you race against Nintendo characters around different circuits, picking up power-ups, attacks and speed boosts. It is frantic and chaotic but still requires skills to do well.

The Alto Collection

Release Date: 19/02/2015, updated in 2018

Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Weather

The Alto Collection is a series of games including Alto's Odyssey and Alto's Adventure. Both are action traversal games where you explore beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets. All you have to...

OCO

PEGI 3 Video Game Age Rating for OCO in UK and Europe

OCO

Release Date: 11/08/2021

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

OCO is a sliding and jumping game set with simple colourful levels each set in a rotating planetoid. Unlike other platform games, you control everything with a single button. Each different colour of platform you slide along grants different abilities...

A Little To The Left

Release Date: 01/08/2022, updated in 2022

Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

A Little To The Left is a puzzle game where you tidy a house into meticulous order. Each puzzle presents everyday objects and some evidence of how they should be organised. The challenge is you have to deal with a mischievous cat who likes to make a mess.

Forza Horizon 4

Release Date: 25/09/2018

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Forza Horizon 4 is a thrilling racing game where you race all manner of vehicles across a wide range of landscapes. This fourth iteration is set in the United Kingdom, with Edinburgh’s narrow streets, the Lake District’s hills and rainfall and the...

Dreams Party!

Dreams Party! (Dreams)

Release Date: 17/03/2020, updated in 2020

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid

Dreams Party! is a turn-based family board game for up to 4 players. There are two boards to choose from, Welcome Garden and Halloween. Like Mario Party, it creates the fun of a real board game but combines it with mini-games when players land on the...

Forza Motorsport 7

Release Date: 03/10/2017, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Weather

Forza Motorsport 7 immerses players in the exhilarating thrill of competitive racing. From mastering the new motorsport-inspired campaign to collecting a wide range of cars to experiencing the excitement of driving at the limit, this is Forza reimagined.

Pokemon Go!

Release Date: 06/07/2016

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Open World

Pokemon Go! is a game you play by walking around in the real world. You play on a smartphone and it can use the GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location.

Soccer Physics

Release Date: 12/12/2018

Out Now: Android, PC, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Soccer Physics is a super simple football game you play by pressing one button. Made by Otto-Ville Ojala who also made the similar one-button games Wrestle Jump and Tank of Tanks, it's designed to be silly and fun. The matches are 2-on-2 and you time...

A Dance of Fire and Ice

Release Date: 25/01/2019

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

A Dance of Fire and Ice is a one-button rhythm game where you control a pair of spheres. You press a button to the beat of the music to progress through the mazes. Each press pivots the direction of motion of the paired spheres to make turns and cross...

12 Orbits

Release Date: 27/04/2018

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.

Ord

PEGI 3 Video Game Age Rating for Ord in UK and Europe

Ord

Release Date: 05/06/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Text

Ord is an unusual text adventure, rather than one grand story, you embark on a series of distinct quests. Whether it's defeating an evil warlock or creating your own world as a god, Ord tells stories through simple series of words and word associations...

Cricket Through The Ages

Release Date: 03/10/2019, updated in 2021

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...

Dish Life: The Game

Release Date: 24/02/2020

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead

Dish Life: The Game is a puzzle narrative game where you play a stem cell researcher, managing a laboratory and growing stem cells.

Isles of Sea and Sky

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Isles of Sea and Sky is a block-pushing puzzle and exploration game with a look that is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple but offers rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that...

Painted Waters

Release Date: 28/01/2021

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Open World

Painted Waters is a simple adventure for young children. You explore a secret miniature world on a Walker Doodle (the game's version of caterpillar) using a single button to get around and play the puzzles and challenges you find. It's unique not only...

Rhythm Doctor

Release Date: 26/02/2021

Out Now: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game about shocking patients' hearts back in sync with their heartbeats to save their lives. You press a single button on the 7^th beat to defibrillate each patient. It sounds simple but each level has a unique illnesses based...

Fledgling Heroes

Release Date: 07/05/2020

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Fledgling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a path through landscapes and collect coins. You can swim, sprint and soar, defeat dastardly dragons, unlock wondrous new worlds, and explore limitless levels in the Lab.

Koloro

Release Date: 22/12/2018, updated in 2020

Out Now: PS4 and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On

Koloro is a sliding and jumping game you play with a single button. You time jumps and dodge blades to move your square character through complex maze-levels and take on enemies.

Playerless: One Button Adventure

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Android, PC, PS4, Wii, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead

Playerless: One Button Adventure is a puzzle adventure game you can play with a single button. You play a robot in a game who has become self-aware.

Canabalt

Release Date: 31/08/2009

Out Now: Android, PC, PSP and iOS

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Canabalt is a side-on running game where you press jump at the right time to keep a small character from falling off buildings or crashing into things. With minimalist visuals, you play the small suited man fleeing from an unknown threat. As the game...

Jetpack Joyride

Release Date: 01/09/2011

Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Jetpack Joyride is a running, jumping and shooting game you play by just tapping the screen or button at the right time to control your jetpack. You play a scientist who runs through each of the levels and must survive and get to the end.

Qomp

Release Date: 15/11/2020

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat and only use a single button to switch the direction of your ball character. With this single ability, you take on bosses, solve puzzles and overcome platforming...

Dirt n' Stone Off-Road

Dirt n' Stone Off-Road (Dreams)

Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2020

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Dirt n' Stone Off-Road is an off road driving game for four players, controlled with a single button. You play from side-on and press to accelerate or release to brake. The challenge is to apply the right amount of momentum to get your car over the...

Klang 2

Klang 2 (Series)

Release Date: 22/09/2016, updated in 2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Klang 2 is a psychedelic rhythm-action game. You take on enemies in this symbolic universe of three attacks: stikes, dashes and holds. The simple system interplays with the pulsing music to create a rhythm based high-speed combat challenged. Like the...

Night Skate

Release Date: 25/02/2022

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Night Skate is a one-button skating and jumping game where you play a skateboarder endlessly trundling and tricking their way through the world at night. You use a single button to jump, float and land. In this way you can build up combos and tricks to...

Tower of Babel No Mercy

Release Date: 21/02/2020

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Tower of Babel No Mercy is an action platform game where you work with friends to build a tower out of buildings. You control the game with a single button (and one more for special abilities) to drop your building on the stack. It swings left and right...

Mon Amour

Release Date: 14/10/2021

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Mon Amour is a platform game about love and diversity. You play with one button to keep jumping and stay in the air, Flappy Bird style, in an effort to save people by kissing them (and setting them free from their nightmare). Like Flappy Bird, you will...

One Person Story

Release Date: 23/08/2018

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

One Person Story is a simple puzzle game played by pressing a single button to help a bouncing ball through a maze. It's voiced with a narrative about life's difficulties and challenges. It starts simply but gets more difficult as you have to open and...

Bubbles The Cat

Release Date: 12/04/2019

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards but you must tap at the right time to survive.

Just Pogo

Just Pogo (Dreams)

Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2020

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Just Pogo is a jumping game you control with one button. You are a man on a pogo stick and must get to the exit in each of the 18 levels. The quirk of the challenge is that you not only control the game with one button, but that button rotates your...

Press X to Puzzle

Press X to Puzzle (Dreams)

Release Date: 26/07/2020, updated in 2021

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Press X to Puzzle is a one button puzzle game. You press or hold a single button in order to progress to the next screen. Sounds simple, but it's actually more cryptic as you have to decipher the instruction. For some screens the solution is obvious,...

Shadow Frog

Release Date: 18/06/2020

Out Now: iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Shadow Frog is a simple running and jumping game you play with a single button/tap on the screen. You play Frogo who needs to escape the caves. Using just your jump button you interact with the cave walls and platforms to get around and collect keys...

Switch 'N' Shoot

Release Date: 10/04/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Switch 'N' Shoot is a shooting game controlled by a single button. You pilot a star-fighter, and each time you press to shoot you change direction. It's a novel way to play but also can be good for players with motor impairment (and fast reactions).

Otto's Tennis Game

Release Date: 17/05/2023

Out Now: Mac, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Otto's Tennis Game is a sports game where up to two players play short tennis matches. You must time your player's jumps to hit the ball with their racket. The twist is that you control your character's movement with only one button.

Pyro Jump Rescue

Release Date: 25/08/2014, updated in 2017

Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Pyro Jump Rescue is a one-button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper. You work through levels by jumping and attaching to wheels and surfaces, being careful to not be...

They Came From the Sky

Release Date: 20/05/2019, updated in 2022

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

They Came From the Sky is retro shooting game where you control a 1950s Flying Saucer with one mission: make a delicious juicy human smoothie. You play by aiming your beam at the various threats and beaming up humans. The twist is that you play with a...

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