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Full History - 2021 - 11 - 28 - ID#r4k3iy
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Blind accessible video games (self.Blind)
submitted by Vicorin
Recently, I started playing Last of Us 2 on the PlayStation, and was blown away. If you don’t know, there’s a world of accessibility options that make it completely playable without sight. It’s amazing, but it’s just one game that I know of, and it has me wanting more.

I’ve seen some things about a couple games that may be accessible, like Far Cry New Dawn claims to be, but I don’t know how playable those titles actually are.

I know there’s a lot of text and audio games out there, but this is my first time seeing it on mainstream games that have better production value and replayability.

I know there’s some blind gamers on here, so I’m hoping someone has the scoop. What are more games that are fully accessible to blind gamers?

Maybe we should even have a discord or subreddit community for this sort of thing. Anyway, if you know how I can play more games, I’d love to talk.
laconicflow 2 points 1y ago
If you're blindd you probably already know, but fighting games are accessable by their nature of the gameplay, I mean like, mortal kombat and tekken and street fighter, all the games that work like that.
FurystPT 2 points 1y ago
You should check the forums on audiogames.net. Personally, I think Hearthstone is the best one (even though it requires a mod). But there are many others if you browse there.
not_so_kawaii13 2 points 1y ago
Following this thread. Halo Infinite is pretty accessible. Reads everything to me and even helps in live gameplay. And it's kind of cool because it feels like it's just your A.I. talking to you like Cortana. I haven't played it online yet. Because I don't think I'll be able to notice enemies and react fast enough. But it's fun if you just wanna get owned by your child. For bonding sake. But I can also still play Halo Wars. Because I've played that game at least on a weekly basis since it came out. So I don't really need to actually see that much. Depending on how big your tv is and how close you may be to it. Minecraft is pretty good too. It's hard to distinguish a bit of things. But once you make it out it's like oh ok. It's less fine lines and more big clunky blocks. It also has accessibility features. I'm sure there's more.
garlic-lover 1 points 1y ago
$1 has a scrabble like game that works very well with screen readers.
SightlessKombat 1 points 1y ago
Really your question should boil down to how much vision you have and what games are accessible with that level of vision. I'm primarily an Xbox player, but I do have a PS5 as well so I'll be answering from both sides there when I can.
Most people say start with fighting games, of which I can list a few:
Mortal Kombat (2011 was just added to backwards compatibility on Series X, along with MK VS DCU), X and 11 are also accessible too to varying degrees.
Injustice (Franchise): These are by the same developers as the Mortal Kombat series, but have a differing control scheme and combat flow, amongst other things.
Killer Instinct: A fluid, two-way interaction fighter that is easyish) to learn and hard to master, but is great fun with friends as you learn. That and the sound design is fanstic too, at least in my opinion.
Street Fighter V: This fighter's one of those games that I keep wanting to go back to then realising that it's just not necessarily my game at times, but a fair few have found success with it.
For something that isn't punching /kicking people in the face, here's a shooter recommendation:
Gears 5: Though campaign and PVP (i.e. VS) isn't accessible/viable (viability in the latter's case), Horde and Escape, two primary PVE modes are doable without sighted assistance. the game's narration is solid as well, meaning you can level up classes etc and also aim at enemies at range on lower difficulty levels and get direct hits. Take a little while to learn but once you get the feel for it it's very satisfying.

There's just a few to get you starte.

Hope this information helps and happy to answer questions/provide further recommendations where I can.
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