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Xbox X|SWe've documented 8 accessibility features for Race with Ryan, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Control Assists, Custom Difficulty, Select Difficulty and Visual Directional Cues. Its accessibility is strongest in Difficulty and Reading but it also has features in Navigation and Getting Started 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.
An external examiner first checked Race with Ryan accessibility 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 2 years ago.
Accessibility Notes
There are comments from Ryan in the game that are not subtitled. Although these are not central to gameplay, some of the experience is lost if you can't hear this.
Game Details
Release Date: 09/11/2020
Price: 45% off
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Players: 1-4
Accessibility: 8 features
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: Outright Games (@Outright_Games)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Controls in Race with Ryan which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs. The following games are similar to Race with Ryan, and offer accessibility features for Controls:
- Twilight Drive (14 Controls Features)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (9 Controls Features)
- Fancade (7 Controls Features)
- Ommy Kart (4 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Difficulty in Race with Ryan which deal 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.
Customise Difficulty: Customise different aspects of the game to create a challenge of an appropriate level. Adjusting elements individually enables you to tailor gameplay to suit your needs and style of play.
Adjust After Setting
Adjustable Anytime: You can adjust the difficulty while playing, without having to restart the level you are on. This enables you to quickly adjust the game to suit your needs and see the difference immediately.
Getting Started
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Getting Started in Race with Ryan 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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Race with Ryan, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (6 Getting Started Features)
- Car Quest (5 Getting Started Features)
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (5 Getting Started Features)
- Ommy Kart (2 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Reading in Race with Ryan 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.
Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.
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 Race with Ryan, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (5 Reading Features)
- Car Quest (4 Reading Features)
- Chocobo GP (3 Reading Features)
- Ommy Kart (3 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Navigation in Race with Ryan 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.
Clarity
Visual Directional Cues: Additional in-game visual cues that signpost where to go next and how close you are to arriving. This can be with camera movement to focus on your destination or important items. It can use light, breadcrumb trails, in-world pointers to identify your mission's target location.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play Race with Ryan, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Twilight Drive (5 Navigation Features)
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (4 Navigation Features)
Visual
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Visual in Race with Ryan which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game. The following games are similar to Race with Ryan, and offer accessibility features for Visual:
- Twilight Drive (7 Visual Features)
- Fancade (6 Visual Features)
- Hotshot Racing (5 Visual Features)
- Ommy Kart (4 Visual Features)
Audio
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Audio in Race with Ryan 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. The following games are similar to Race with Ryan, and offer accessibility features for Audio:
- Twilight Drive (3 Audio Features)
- Car Quest (3 Audio Features)
- Hotshot Racing (3 Audio Features)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (3 Audio Features)
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 @GeekDadGamer and Andy Robertson
