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Xbox X|SWe've documented 24 accessibility features for Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, Select Difficulty and No Button Combos. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Visual but it also has features in Getting Started, Reading, Navigation, Audio and Difficulty to reduce unintended barriers.
This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.
External examiner, Brandon Cole, first checked Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind accessibility 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 2 years ago.
Accessibility Notes
On PC the game is not playable without sight.
The game provides Alt Descriptions for each of the images. This makes the game more accessible for blind players. These are substantial and highly descriptive.
Game Details
Controls
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Controls in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Mouse And Keyboard
Can play with the following:
Mouse Alone: Can play with just the mouse/mouse-button/mouse wheel.
Touchscreen
Can play with the following. Additional gestures may be required for games played with a screenreader like VoiceOver.
One Tap Anywhere: Can play with touchscreen, tap anywhere.
One Motion Targeted: Can play with touchscreen, tap and swipe or hold gesture.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
Holding Down Buttons Optional: Holding down buttons for prolonged periods (a second or more) is not required or can be switched to toggling the action on and off. This is in addition to the movement stick/button which is not considered a hold for this purpose.
Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional: Quick, repeated button pressing (more than 2 times a second) is not required, can be skipped or switched to holding a button to trigger a repeated action.
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Wildermyth (11 Controls Features)
- Signs of the Sojourner (7 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:
- Wildermyth (3 Difficulty Features)
- The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (2 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Getting Started in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind which deal 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.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Reaction-Time Not Critical: Individual game actions don’t need quick reactions, or there are settings to lower the requirement for quick reactions. This means you don't need to quickly press a button in response to an on-screen prompt, target a fast-moving target or skillfully complete a scenario against the clock.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
No Jump Scares: No sudden loud noises or popping-up scary visuals that unexpectedly appear without warning, or the option to disable them.
Assistance For Progressing
These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.
Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (6 Getting Started Features)
- The Kingdom of Istyald (6 Getting Started Features)
- Signs of the Sojourner (6 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Reading in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 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.
Subtitles
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.
Voice Acted
All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Pentiment (6 Reading Features)
- The Kingdom of Istyald (6 Reading Features)
- Clam Man 2: Headliner (5 Reading Features)
- Knights of San Francisco (4 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Navigation in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind which deal 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.
Head-Up Display
Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.
Menu Navigation
Menu Audio Cues: Navigating menus provide an audio cue for each selection.
Menu Narrated: All of the game menus can be narrated for easier navigation. The game menus can therefore be navigated without reading text.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Wildermyth (5 Navigation Features)
- Signs of the Sojourner (5 Navigation Features)
- The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (4 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 6 accessibility features for Visual in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind 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.
Audio Cues for Visual Events
Menu Audio Cues: Navigating menus provide an audio cue for each selection.
Narration for Visual Elements
This is the audible narration of in-game text. Sometimes talk about as Text To Speech, although it may include the narration of no-textual elements. This is different to Text To Voice, which provides player-player textual communication audibly.
Menu Narrated: All of the game menus can be narrated for easier navigation. The game menus can therefore be navigated without reading text.
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.
Play Without Sight
Play Without Sight on iOS with VoiceOver: The game can be played without sight by fully supporting the built-in VoiceOver screen reader on iOS. This includes clear text on buttons and intuitive navigation so VoiceOver can be used to read all interactive elements.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Knights of San Francisco (8 Visual Features)
- Ord (8 Visual Features)
- Signs of the Sojourner (8 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind which deal 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.
Adjustable Audio
Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Wildermyth (3 Audio Features)
- The Kingdom of Istyald (3 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
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.
iOS
iOS has a very extensive suite of accessibility settings including ways to navigate with voice and comprehensive screen reading, though most of the features don't work with games.
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors @superblindman and Andy Robertson
