A list of all blind-accessible videogames

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A list of all blind-accessible videogames

This is a list of every videogame accessible to the blind. For purposes of this article, blind means someone with no usable vision. For every game, it's level of accessibility will be described next to it.

For some games there is not enough information so feel free to leave your experiences in the comments. Also, if you know of any other blind-accessible games that aren't on this list, please write them down in the comments. You can also message me on Discord (my username is: molitvan).

This was originally started on June 18th, 2024 in the form of this Reddit thread and has since been moved here. A website for this list and more is planned in the future. Stay tuned!

Games

• The Last of Us part I. (PC/PS5) - fully accessible w/audio description
• The Last of Us part II. (PC/PS4/PS5) - fully accessible, but the PS5 and PC versions have more features like audio description and higher quality TTS with support for all game languages
• God of War Ragnarök (PS4/PS5) - half-baked accessibility with many features broken or partially finished (like the screen reader not reading most of the game), but there is a guide, available here specifically meant to help blind players get around these issues. Also there is audio description, but with many grammatical errors.
• Spiderman 2 (PC/PS5) - mostly accessible w/audio description (requires brief sighted assistance at certain points in the game, but otherwise fully accessible)
• Minecraft: Java Edition (PC, with the Minecraft Access mod) - mostly accessible, requires decent spatial awareness
• Factorio (PC, with the Factorio Access mod) - mostly accessible, currently stuck on an older game version with support for the newest version being worked on and expected probably in a few months. That older version (1.1) still has planty of content and new players won't notice any significant changes when upgrading to 2.0.
• Lethal Company (PC, with the Lethal Access mod) - mostly accessible
• Forza Motorsport (PC/Xbox) - fully accessible, high learning curve, includes audio description
• As Dusk Falls (PC/PS5/Xbox) - fully accessible w/audio description (the game is also available for PS4, but that version is not accessible)
• Hades (PC, with the Erumi's Blind Accessibility Options modpack) - playable, but a bit tricky at times, uses OCR
• Hades II. (PC, with the Blind Accessibility modpack) - no information other than that the development seems to be slow, possibly abandoned at the moment and as a result the modpack doesn't support the latest Hades II version
• Stardew Valley (PC, with the Stardew Access mod) - mostly accessible with downsides being related to combat and efficiency when doing some tasks compared to sighted players. Most of that can be fixed with other mods though.
• Plants vs Zombies (PC, with the pvz-a11y mod) - fully accessible
• Diablo IV (all platforms) - mostly accessible, requires mental mapping in dungeons, nav assist only in overworld for now
• Brock the Investigator (all platforms) - fully accessible w/audio description
• Mortal Kombat 1 (all platforms) - fully accessible w/audio description
• Slay the Spire (PC, with the Say the Spire mod) - fully accessible
• Hearthstone (PC, with the Hearthstone Access mod) - fully accessible
• World of Warcraft (PC, with the Blind Slash mod) - mostly accessible, sighted assistance required in dungeons and end-game content
• World of Warcraft Classic (PC, with the SKU mod) - not in active development as seen by the notice in the description. As such, I don't recommend it to new players, but I'm putting it here just to make it clear it exists for now.
• Crusader Kings III (PC, with a mod) - fully accessible with OCR. This means that everything can be played, but the mod relies on using live OCR instead of directly outputing text to a tts.
• Skull Girls (PC) - fully accessible
• Balatro (PC, with the Black Hole mod) - fully accessible
• Any game made in Ren'Py e.g. Doki Doki Literature Club, Slay the Princess... (PC, sometimes with a mod) - fully accessible
• Fortnite (PC, with the FA11y mod, aim assist available separately here) - playable, but a bit tricky to learn. Also requires a good computer because the mod uses machine learning for everything
• Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duels (PC, with the Master Duels Blind Mode mod) - work in progress, looking very promising
• Pokémon Reborn (PC) - mostly accessible, instead of navigation assistance there are audio cues for bumping into things to tell you what it is and also for figuring out where walls or empty space are
• Assassin's Creed Shadows (all platforms) - limited information, the game looks to be playable, but very frustrating. It may get removed from this list in the future.
• Street Fighter 6 (all platforms) - fully accessible gameplay with features like accessibility audio cues, but with no screen reader. Works well with OCR
• All GBC and GBA Pokemon games including some ROM hacks (emulated on PC, with the Pokemon Access mod) - fully accessible
• F1 25 (all platforms) - accessibility audio cues in races enabling almost full accessibility of gameplay, however no screen reader or any other features
• Blackbox (iOS) - fully accessible
• Soulblaze (PC) - fully accessible
• Sequence Storm (PC) - fully accessible
• Red and Black (PC) - fully accessible

Accidentally accessible games

These are games that are playable, but without the developers or modders specifically including accessibility for us. Experience with these games may wary.

• Most fighting games (e.g. older Mortal Kombat)
• Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo 3DS) - accidentally playable, menu guide available here
• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS4/PS5/Switch) - playable, more information and guide available here
• Ninja Gaiden 3: OCR required, has navigation assist which makes it playable
• Resident Evil 6: OCR required, has navigation assist which makes it playable.
• Any mostly text based game assuming the UI is good for OCR. This can be tested even before buying the game buy watching a YouTube video or OCRing screenshots of the game. Similarly, text hooks can be used to play some visual novels (more resources needed on this).

Hi,
Just jumping in here since I have played PVZ. It can be 100% completed blind, there were a few bugs or unintended interactions I found that I posted in the issues page but other than those the game plays fine. Unfortunately I’m not sure if they’ll be fixed since the dev seems to be MIA but they’re not serious issues.
Also going to add a few more games to the list. Sequence Storm which is a rhythm game, some Gears of War games, Sea of Thieves. I haven’t played any of these so this is only from what I’ve read or heard from other blind players, and with Sea of Thieves it seems to be very sighted help dependent still so you may consider omitting that or putting a disclaimer. Link to an article detailing them is here:
https://caniplaythat.com/2021/10/21/5-games-for-blind-and-visually-impaired-players/
There is also a Doom accessibility mod I’ve been meaning to try out that works with the first couple of games, but I haven’t been able to find much information on that so I’ll get back to you on that later.
And final note, the pokemon GBA scripts also work with some romhacks, just modifications of the base games to add more modern content or alter the games entirely.
Merging the games and their respective links if applicable sounds good.
Thanks for putting this list together, I was really surprised to see what is available despite the limited options and it’s been great getting back into a hobby I thought I wouldn’t be able to enjoy again.

Hi, Just jumping in here since I have played PVZ. It can be 100% completed blind, there were a few bugs or unintended interactions I found that I posted in the issues page but other than those the game plays fine. Unfortunately I’m not sure if they’ll be fixed since the dev seems to be MIA but they’re not serious issues. Also going to add a few more games to the list. Sequence Storm which is a rhythm game, some Gears of War games, Sea of Thieves. I haven’t played any of these so this is only from what I’ve read or heard from other blind players, and with Sea of Thieves it seems to be very sighted help dependent still so you may consider omitting that or putting a disclaimer. Link to an article detailing them is here: https://caniplaythat.com/2021/10/21/5-games-for-blind-and-visually-impaired-players/ There is also a Doom accessibility mod I’ve been meaning to try out that works with the first couple of games, but I haven’t been able to find much information on that so I’ll get back to you on that later. And final note, the pokemon GBA scripts also work with some romhacks, just modifications of the base games to add more modern content or alter the games entirely. Merging the games and their respective links if applicable sounds good. Thanks for putting this list together, I was really surprised to see what is available despite the limited options and it’s been great getting back into a hobby I thought I wouldn’t be able to enjoy again.

Thank you. About Gears of War and Sea of Thieves (you're probably referring to Gears 5), I won't be adding those because even though they do have some accessibility features for us, they're not really playable without massive constant sighted help (somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Also I see Sequence Storm is free to play so I'll definitely check it out myself before adding, probably later today. And about the Doom mod, I've heard of it and was meaning to put it on the list, but finding any official channel to get the actual mod has been a nightmare. The only thing I was able to find were a bunch of forum posts and no official GitHub or website or anything so please tell me when you get to trying it out.

A steam game list: Games that cater for people with visual impairments.
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26801495-Visually-Impaired-Players/

Other games with a11y support:

• Rhythm Quest: Rhythm game with built-in TTS for accessible music gameplay with advance beat hints.
  There is a demo version of the game to try.
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1635640/Rhythm_Quest/

• Red&Black 2D puzzle game with NVDA support.
  one of the author's goals in developing this game was to study how to include accessibility in the game.

  • There is an introductory video of the game by the author, with Chinese audio and English subtitles.
    https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18M4y1b7TL/
  • https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365780/_RedBlack/

A steam game list: Games that cater for people with visual impairments. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26801495-Visually-Impaired-Players/

Other games with a11y support:

* Rhythm Quest: Rhythm game with built-in TTS for accessible music gameplay with advance beat hints.
  There is a demo version of the game to try.
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1635640/Rhythm_Quest/

* Red&Black 2D puzzle game with NVDA support.
  one of the author's goals in developing this game was to study how to include accessibility in the game.
  
  * There is an introductory video of the game by the author, with Chinese audio and English subtitles.
    https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18M4y1b7TL/
  * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365780/_RedBlack/

Hello and thank you for your suggestions. Taking a quick look at the Steam game list you sent, a lot of games on there seem to be audiogames/games that are only meant to be played by the blind and this list is not a place for that. I'll definitely take a more detailed look at it when I have more time though because not all games on there are audiogames.

Rhythm Quest and Red and Black look interesting so thank you for making me aware of them. I'll definitely do some research on them and look into including them here.

A steam game list: Games that cater for people with visual impairments. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26801495-Visually-Impaired-Players/

Other games with a11y support:

* Rhythm Quest: Rhythm game with built-in TTS for accessible music gameplay with advance beat hints.
  There is a demo version of the game to try.
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1635640/Rhythm_Quest/

* Red&Black 2D puzzle game with NVDA support.
  one of the author's goals in developing this game was to study how to include accessibility in the game.
  
  * There is an introductory video of the game by the author, with Chinese audio and English subtitles.
    https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18M4y1b7TL/
  * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365780/_RedBlack/

Hi. I'm having trouble starting a game in Rhythm Quest. I just get stuck on what I assume is the difficulty selection screen. Any tips?