We've documented 14 accessibility features for Lair Of The Clockwork God, including Large Subtitles, Large Text, Control Assists, Select Difficulty and Play Without Hearing. Its accessibility is strongest in Reading and Visual but it also has features in Controls, Difficulty, Getting Started, Navigation and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Lair Of The Clockwork God accessibility a year ago.
Accessibility Notes
Game Details
Release Date: 21/02/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Point-and-Click (Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform)
Accessibility: 14 features
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Controls in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deals with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Controller Vibration
Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.
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Difficulty
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deals with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.
Difficulty Options
Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.
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If you want to play Lair Of The Clockwork God, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:
- Brok the Investigator (2 Difficulty Features)
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Getting Started
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Getting Started in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deals with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Assistance With Controls: The game can automatically assist with aiming, steering, reloading, jumping, running etc. This reduces the challenge of certain aspects of play to remove barriers and make control of characters more accessible.
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If you want to play Lair Of The Clockwork God, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Brok the Investigator (12 Getting Started Features)
- Under Leaves (7 Getting Started Features)
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Reading
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
Extensive Complex Reading: Extensive reading required. The quantity and complexity of reading is suitable for someone who loves long books and enjoys extended dialogue or narrative descriptions.
Text Visibility
Large Clear Text: All essential text is large and clear or can be adjusted to be. The general text used throughout the game in menus, instructions and other key information (excluding subtitles that are assessed separately) is at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height on landscape screens and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters.
Subtitles
Large Clear Subtitles: Subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast. They are at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height of a landscape screen and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens, or can be adjusted to be. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters. Considered separately from the general text of the game, the subtitles are large, clear and of good contrast.
All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.
Captions
Speaker Indicator: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
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Navigation
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deals with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.
Menu Navigation
Digital Menu Navigation: Menu choices with Gamepad can be made without using an analogue stick to guide a cursor to a selection. For example, using D-Pad, buttons or the Stick to change menu selection in a single action.
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- Brok the Investigator (7 Navigation Features)
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Visual
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Visual in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Visual Distractions
No Screen Shake: No screen shake effect or it is included but it can be disabled. This includes the absence of screen shake for dramatic effect as well as to indicate hits on a target.
No Busy Backgrounds: No distracting backgrounds or you can make them static or blank. This includes the absence of other movement elements in the background that might distract or confuse the action. Where foreground contrast is high, this includes games with some movement in the background that doesn't make it overly difficult to distinguish what is happening.
Motion Sickness Friendly
Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.
Colour Options
Colour Blind Friendly: Game doesn’t rely on colour or can switch to colour blind friendly mode with double coding or similar way to avoid colour dependance.
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Audio
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Lair Of The Clockwork God which deals with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
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If you want to play Lair Of The Clockwork God, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
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System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
PC
Windows has extensive accessibility features. Some, like colour correction, work with games. Lots of accessibility software can be used with PC games, from voice recognition to input device emulators.
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).
Xbox One
Xbox One has a system features, the excellent co-pilot share controls mode and adaptive controller support for all games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall