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Conan
Exiles

Accessibility Report

29 Accessibility Features

We've documented 29 accessibility features for Conan Exiles, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Low Pressure, Control Assists, Custom Difficulty and Select Difficulty. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Getting Started but it also has features in Navigation, Reading, Communication, Difficulty, Visual and Audio 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.

Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Similar to games like Ark or Green Hell, you start with nothing and must use resources you find in the open-world sandbox. On your own or with friends, you build a base and craft useful items as you work your way from peasant to a mighty barbarian and then fight to dominate your enemies in epic siege wars.

Our accessibility examiner, Tyler Brinkman, first checked Conan Exiles accessibility 7 months ago. It was re-examined by Tyler Brinkman and updated 6 months ago.

Accessibility Notes

When creating your own world you can customize a wide variety of things including experience points gain rate, the player vs player schedule, building, and ownership rules which technically influences how difficult your own game would be if you were hosting others along with yourself.

The game has partial nudity on by default. This can be changed to full or none.

Game Details

Release Date: 30/01/2017

Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Players: 1 (70 online)

Genres: Simulation, Strategy (Action, Fighting and Role-Play)

Accessibility: 29 features

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Persistant World

Developer: Funcom (@Funcom)

Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass

Controls

We've documented 11 accessibility features for Controls in Conan Exiles which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.

Mouse And Keyboard

Can play with the following:

Mouse and Controller: Can play with mouse and controller simultaneously.

Remap Controls

Can customise the controls for the game as follows:

Remap Buttons: Can re-map all buttons so that you can use alternatives that better suit your play.

Swap Sticks: Can swap the sticks over so that you can use the opposite sticks to control the game.

Remap Sticks: Can remap the stick controls to controller buttons for easier access of direction controls.

Remap Mouse and Keyboard: Can remap mouse and keyboard key bindings, on systems that support these controls.

Remap Extra Mouse Buttons: Can remap additional buttons on mice that provide more than the two standard buttons, on systems that support these controls.

Remap Mouse Wheel: Can remap the mouse wheel to control aspects of the game when you move it up/down, on systems that support these controls.

Remap Game Menu Access: Can remap buttons to pause, access and navigate the game menu. This enables you to specify which buttons pop-up the game menu.Whether you can remap menu navigation buttons isn't considered here.

Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.

Sensitivity

You can adjust

Adjust Mouse/Stick/Touch Sensitivity, Deadzones and Thresholds: Adjust how sensitive touch/mouse/stick controls are and the related deadzones and thresholds.

Difficulty

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Conan Exiles 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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:

Wildmender (3 Difficulty Features)
Ark: Survival Evolved (3 Difficulty Features)
Minecraft (3 Difficulty Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in Conan Exiles 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.

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.

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.

Assistance For Progressing

These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints: If you fail you can retry that level or aspect of the game without losing a lot of progress (less than 5 minutes). This is often provided via Frequent Checkpoints combined with restarting without losing time, equipment or score.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

Frostpunk (7 Getting Started Features)
Minecraft (7 Getting Started Features)
This is a True Story (6 Getting Started Features)
Wildmender (6 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Reading in Conan Exiles 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.

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 Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:

Wildmender (5 Reading Features)
Fallout 76 (5 Reading Features)
Minecraft (5 Reading Features)
This is a True Story (4 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Navigation in Conan Exiles 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

Clear Mission Objectives: The game provides clear, structured missions with directional guidance and advice on which can be attempted next. This also indicates (ideally on maps where they are provided) which missions can't be attempted because you do not have the appropriate items yet.

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

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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

Wildmender (8 Navigation Features)
Minecraft (7 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in Conan Exiles 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.

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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:

Minecraft (6 Visual Features)
Frostpunk (5 Visual Features)
This is a True Story (4 Visual Features)
Wildmender (4 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Conan Exiles 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.

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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:

Minecraft (4 Audio Features)
Wildmender (2 Audio Features)
Stellaris (2 Audio Features)
The Forest (2 Audio Features)

Communication

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Communication in Conan Exiles which deal with how you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction.

Player-to-Player Online Communication

This is how players communicate with each other in online games. This can be to plan strategy, chat as they play or co-ordinate resources.

Text Chat: Chat to other players by typing text.

Voice Chat: Chat to other players on your team or friends list by speaking with headset.

Proximity Chat: Chat to other players who are near you in the game, whether or not they are friends or on your team, by speaking with headset.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Communication

If you want to play Conan Exiles, but it doesn't offer the Communication accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Communication accessibility:

Stellaris (4 Communication Features)
Rust (4 Communication 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.

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.

Xbox Series X|S
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.