I’ve played video games pretty much my whole life (I’m 41), but since my vision loss a few years ago, I play very infrequently now. My eyes hurt so badly after playing that it’s not worth it except on rare occasions. I mostly play emulated 8 and 16 bit games so I can use save states to help me even the odds. I did play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but my two sons pretty much watched me the whole time and pointed out things I might miss. Dark environs and particle effects really complicate games for me, so now I’m most sticking with old-school games and definitely no bullet-hell shooters!

I have been playing GTA online with my friends for the last couple of months. Can't play first person shooter games. It makes me dizzy.

Legally blind and ~5% visual field left. Can play the good old CS 1.6 (familiar maps) and I do okay. Footsteps! I can locate enemies quite accurately in familiar maps by sound. Also, I have the Vive Pro VR headset and I can play Beat Saber quite well, although I need to partly memorize the songs. Then there's the VR equivalent of CS that is Pavlov VR. Again, familiar maps and sounds (and practice), and I'm usually in the top three. Skyrim, Diablo 2 LoD, 8 and 16 bit nintendo games.
So yeah, I play, but every now and then I feel bad knowing I'd be so much better if I wasn't almost blind.

Love xcom 2, turn based helps a lot and I use Zoom and hold up Seeing AI to the screen to read text. Also been enjoying Dicey Dungeon, it tends to have large everything on screen which is nice.

My new obsession is Final Fantasy XIV. I struggle a bit, but it's still very enjoyable. Maxed out machinist, now working on summoner.


Fallout 4 remains one of my main games. I still find new things every playthrough, and my settlement building improves with each iteration. VATS and a stealth sniper build helps a lot, and I have a mod that allows for a multi-spectrum eyepiece (regular, night vision, thermal, and targeting) to help me sort out what I am looking at.


Diablo 3 can be a bit of a struggle as well, but I tend to play the same build every season so I can rely on muscle memory a bit more.

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I wish.

Totally blind,, beat Dissidia Final Fantasy, original, using an emulator and OCR functions built into NVDA. Well, beat almost everything except inward chaos because dealing with equipment and accessories is hard even with OCR. Everyone should try it so I can have some online play going lol.

I've been playing my whole life, and have seen a small amount out of the corner of one eye for even longer. If it's got a compelling story, I'll play it. I do find I have a much harder time with shooting gameplay, whether first or third person. I can do it, but it's often rough going. I much prefer games with melee combat, if the game I'm playing has combat at all. The only thing I generally won't do is play a game where the majority is not voiced. It's not that I can't read, but with the limit field of view, reading is slow going. Playing a game on PC with NVDA's text recognition through Windows 10 OCR can quite often mitigate that, though from I will still prefer voice acting.

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I play D&D instead. Some board games.

I play a decent amount of video games, mostly platformers and puzzle games with a few action RPGs like Zelda. I use a huge tv screen that I sit close to.