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The games here can be played with a single button. Although ranging in difficulty they are a good place to start for those needing simpler controls. It should be noted that many of these games need to be started with more than one button. Some are played by tapping at a fixed point on a touchscreen. We haven't included games that require a motioned-touch. For those needing alternative access there are many possibilities with an accessibility switch. These "switches" come in many shapes and sizes including jumbo buttons, super-sensitive finger switches and sound sensors. In some cases, the spacebar or a Bluetooth keyboard can work just fine. If the player can activate the control and if it can be connected to the games machine, then one-button play becomes a possibility.This list was compiled with the help of Barrie Ellis, who runs One Switch. On that site you can find equipment to enable a far wider range of games to be played by accessibility switch users. OneSwitch also supports a range of other accessible gaming solutions.
This list includes 11 games from the last 30 years, with 129 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to play with one button.
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Content Rating: PEGI 3
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Release Date: 11/08/2021
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative and Platform
Accessibility: 20 features
Developer: Spectrum 48 Games (@Spectrum48Games)
Players: This is a single-player game
OCO is a sliding and jumping game set with simple colourful levels each set in a rotating planetoid. Unlike other platform games, you control everything with a single button. Each different colour of platform you slide along grants different abilities...
Skill Rating: 3-10 year-olds
Release Date: 27/08/1992, updated in 2018
Price: 26% off
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch and iOS
Genres: Action and Race
Accessibility: 27 features
Developer: Nintendo (@Nintendo)
Players: You can play with 1 to 4 players in the same room or as a 12-player online game
Mario Kart is a go-kart racing game on Nintendo systems. You race against other Nintendo characters around different circuits, picking up power ups, attacks and speed boosts. It is frantic and chaotic, but still requires skills to do well at.
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Release Date: 03/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac and iPhone, iPad
Genres: Action and Sports
Accessibility: 10 features
Developer: Free Lives (@Free_Lives)
Players: You can play with 1 to 2 players in the same room
Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...
Skill Rating: 5-10 year-olds
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Accessibility: 21 features
Developer: Uj Rom (@UjRom)
Players: You can play with 1 to 12 players in the same room
12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.
Expected Content Rating: PEGI 3
Skill Rating: 2-8 year-olds
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Price: Free
Platforms: PC, Web and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Stealth
Accessibility: 31 features
Developer: Am I The Baddie (@AmITheBaddie)
Players: You can play with 1 to 5 players in the same room or as a 5-player online game
Am I The Baddie? is a running and collecting game of hide and seek where you control a character on a simple maze of streets. Up to five people compete on separate devices or computers. One person is the baddie who tries to collect the clues without...
Skill Rating: 3-6 year-olds
Release Date: 07/05/2020
Platforms: Switch and iPhone, iPad
Genres: Action, Platform and Rhythm
Developer: Subtle Boom (@SubtleBoom)
Fledgeling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a part through landscapes and collect coins. You can swim, sprint and soar, defeat dastardly dragons, unlock wondrous new worlds, and explore limitless levels in the Lab.
Release Date: 12/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Platform
Accessibility: 15 features
Developer: Team Cats N Bears (@TeamCatsNBears)
Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards but you must tap at the right time to survive.
Skill Rating: 6-10 year-olds
Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Genres: Race and Simulation
Accessibility: 1 feature
Players: You can play with 1 to 4 players in the same room
Dirt n' Stone Off-Road is an off road driving game for four players, controlled with a single button. You play from side-on and press to accelerate or release to brake. The challenge is to apply the right amount of momentum to get your car over the...
Skill Rating: 7-11 year-olds
Release Date: 23/08/2018
Platforms: PC and Switch
Genres: Narrative and Puzzle
Accessibility: 17 features
Developer: Lampogolovii (@Lampogolovii)
This is a simple puzzle game played by pressing a single button to help a bouncing ball through a maze. It's voiced with a narrative about life's difficulties and challenges. It starts simply but gets more difficult as you have to open and close doors,...
Skill Rating: 8-12 year-olds
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Just Pogo is a jumping game you control with one button. You are a man on a pogo-stick and must get to the exit in each of the 18 levels. The quirk of the challenge is that you not only control the game with one button, but that button rotates your...
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Release Date: 25/08/2014, updated in 2017
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Mac and iOS
Genres: Collecting and Platform
Accessibility: 26 features
Developer: Pinpin Team (@PinpinTeam)
Pyro Jump and Pyro Jump Rescue are a one button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper. You work through levels by jumping and the attaching to wheels and surfaces,...
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