Hey! Albinism with 3/60 and photophobia. Here's my top picks from my Steam library - happy to lend you any of these if you want to try before you buy. :)

Stardew Valley: Bright graphics, very laid back, I play this when I want to switch my brain off.

Portal 1: I wouldn't recommend Portal 2 as a lot of the areas are dark and require you to spot the portal-friendly surfaces quite far away. That said, both games (with slight exceptions) allow you to move at yoru own pace and telegraph things quite well.

Pit People: Turn based strategy game with gorgeous bright graphics.

Darkest Dungeon: The graphics are dark but it's a turn based strategy game that doesn't rely on graphics much at all. It also has a great set of accessibility features. It's pretty guelling and RNG heavy, but well worth a play.

2064: Read Only Memories: Adventure game without the point and click/pixel hunting elements. It focuses more on dialogue and telling a really sweet story. It helps that it has a pretty dope synthwave soundtrack. Only one event requires you to react quickly and it's pretty low stakes.

To The Moon: I remember the graphics being quite small but you might be able to scale it up. It's a story game that was riveting and just the sweetest thing. There's basically no challenge, but I found it very engaging.

Antichamber: There are some areas which are darker or require you to notice things. I found myself regularly confused and disoriented but I gather that's the experience of most people. It's a game about exploration and puzzles but it'll blow your mind from time to time.

Monkey Island/Day of the Tentacle: Both of these are classic point and click adventure games and I enjoyed them immensely for their story and humour. They're nice and bright but do require you to notice interactable objects.

Dragon Age: It's an RPG that's pretty story focused. The combat is real time but you can pause at any stage as it's more about strategy than reaction time. I was able to finish the game on the hardest difficulty without too much trouble, although it did take me a long ass time to get through every battle sequence as I played my combat out in chunks of 1-3 seconds.

Invisible Inc.: A turn based strategy game with some pretty interesting mechanics. I found it a good challenge, although some mechanics do rely on visual cues quite a bit.

Riven/The Witness/The Beginner's Guide/The Stanley Parable: All of these are casual puzzle/adventure games where you basically walk around and have a blast. The Witness and Riven's puzzles are challenging while TBG and TSP are more story driven sort of walking simulators.

Rocket League: Fast paced and possibly disorienting, but it has a bunch of colour settings including yellow/blue mode which I found made things a lot easier. It's one of the few multiplayer games I can bash with friends.

Celeste: Action platformer, it has some darker areas but it also has assist mode. Plus the game just looks and feels amazing to play.

SUPERHOT: If you haven't heard about it, go give it a try. It's a first person shooter where time only advances when you move, which basically turns it into a puzzle game. It's pretty neato.

Undertale: Okay, so you're probably gonna have some trouble with this one - I certainly did, but it's so well worth the trouble. The combat sections are sort of like shmups but the main focus of the game is on the story. I have yet to finish it but despite all my frustration I adore the game.

Borderlands: A looter shooter. It's usually bright, you might struggle with some of the combat so it's a definite maybe on this one.

Castle Crashers; Made by the same guys who did Pit People, it's very bright but real time and quite fast paced.

Cuphead: Again, super bright and great graphics but very fast paced and you have to pay attention. I struggle a lot with it.

Downwell: A falling platformer, great graphics and interesting mechanics. It probably won't hold your attention for too long.

Enter the Gungeon: A bullet hell shmup roguelike which is bright but very chaotic. Reaction time is king and I suck at it.

FEZ: Bright but the graphics are small and I can't remember if there's settings to help with that. Still an interesting game that engages but doesn't put you under a lot of pressure.

Furi: Boss rush action game, I like it because parries use audio cues and apart from the green boss I could see everything quite well. You still need good reflexes though.

Mirror's Edge: Freeform platformer. ODecently fun and has good visual cues.

One Finger Death Punch: A fighting game were you use ... one finger. It's kind of stupid but also stupidly fun and easy to play.

My vision is pretty blurry but I still have fun with Minecraft I play that practically all the time because it’s so easy to see

Hello! Advanced keratoconus here. Also former WoW player.


FFXIV is good if you still crave an MMO. Outside of Savage content (think WoW heroic, but higher), there's a lot of floor indicators that can help you see what is coming and get out of the way. I'd look up some videos of the Trial and Raid bosses and check how much of the activity you can see. There's also a program called ReShade that you can use to fiddle with the graphical settings to find something that suits you better! I have a macro I hit at the beginning of any activity that tells the group I am blind. The community tends to be pretty understanding.


I also really like Fallout 4 with a mod called West-Tek Tactical Optics. This will let you build a multi-spectrum imager to let you cycle through Night Vision, Infrared, Targeting (enemies have a light highlight), and normal modes. There's also a built-in flashlight for your Pip-boy that can also be modded for brightness. Plus, you can build for using your auto-targeting VATS system, and it lets me continue to play the shooters I used to love.

It sounds like you're done with WoW, but I just wanted to link a guide I made on how to play the game completely blind. It won't really help with the game being too dark because I mainly just follow people, but if you decide to play again, maybe it'll help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9w7mr1/guide_on_how_to_play_world_of_warcraft_blind/

Edit: Also, Resident Evil 6 has a feature that allows your character to walk in the direction of an objective as long as you have the map open. Additionally, Gears 5 has some pretty good accessibility features.

I play a lot of old school platformers like Mario and Super Metroid. Really any bright and colorful games work for me.

I don’t know if the breadcrumb trail is the same on PC, but I play Fable 3 and even though I’m legally blind I can still play. It helps I be been playon* it since 2010 when I was sighted. Good luck!

I’m legally blind in both eyes, but usually just use my phone. I have to be too close to a desktop to play much besides Minecraft (tho I’ve always preferred creative mode).

On my phone I play Pokémon Go. It’s very bright. It’s annoyingly simple, and I do miss RPGs / MMOs, but it is nice that I can still play something. I look for new phone games from time to time but they usually have too many ads, or start timing you on higher lvls.

Lifelong gamer (41) who acquired optic nerve damage about three years ago. I mostly play emulated games because they have simpler graphics and allow save states. It also allows me to resize and reposition the game window in the sweet spot of my remaining visual field. Dark environments and particle effects really mess with my vision.