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10 Accessibility Features

We've documented 10 accessibility features for Heat Signature, including Adjust Speed, Select Difficulty, Remap Buttons, High Contrast Text and Moderate Reading. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Getting Started but it also has features in Reading, 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.

Heat Signature is a tactical shooting game where you break into spaceships on missions to hijack them, steal important technology, assassinate crew members and rescue captives. With simple visuals, viewed from above, you can approach this in many ways using the game's in-depth simulation of combat. With the flexibility and realism comes high consequences that mean you will die a lot and try again.

Accessibility Notes

You can pause the action to plan out your moves. This offers some lower pressured moments in amongst the relatively stressful combat. You can select missions of different difficulty.

Game Details

Release Date: 21/09/2017

Out Now: PC

Players: 1

Genres: Strategy, Traversal (Action, Fighting, Role-Play, Shooting and Stealth)

Accessibility: 10 features

Components: 2D Overhead

Developer: Gunpoint Game (@GunpointGame)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Controls in Heat Signature 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 and Keys: Can play with mouse and multiple keys.

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.

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

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls

If you want to play Heat Signature, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:

Heavenly Bodies (12 Controls Features)
Aliens: Dark Descent (10 Controls Features)
Super Animal Royale (8 Controls Features)
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (7 Controls Features)

Difficulty

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Difficulty in Heat Signature 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 Heat Signature, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:

UnMetal (2 Difficulty Features)
Heavenly Bodies (2 Difficulty Features)
Out of Space (2 Difficulty Features)
Among Us (2 Difficulty Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Getting Started in Heat Signature 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.

Adjust Speed: Adjust the speed of the game at critical moments or throughout, or rewind play for a second attempt, to ease reaction times. By slowing the game, you have more time to interpret what is happening and then execute your actions. It also reduces the pressure on getting things right quickly or the first time you attempt them.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

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

Heavenly Bodies (8 Getting Started Features)
Aliens: Dark Descent (5 Getting Started Features)
Space Crew (4 Getting Started Features)
Super Animal Royale (3 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Reading in Heat Signature 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.

Moderate Reading: Moderate reading required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a high school student (14-year-old) would appreciate.

Text Visibility

High Contrast Text: Text colour contrasts to the background or can be adjusted to be. The text in menus, instructions and other information is presented in high contrast with a solid background.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading

If you want to play Heat Signature, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (7 Reading Features)
UnMetal (6 Reading Features)
Hitman (5 Reading Features)
Aliens: Dark Descent (4 Reading Features)

Navigation

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Navigation in Heat Signature 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. The following games are similar to Heat Signature, and offer accessibility features for Navigation:

Super Animal Royale (6 Navigation Features)
Aliens: Dark Descent (4 Navigation Features)
UnMetal (4 Navigation Features)
Heavenly Bodies (4 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Visual in Heat Signature which deals 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 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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

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

Terraria (6 Visual Features)
Super Animal Royale (5 Visual Features)
Among Us (5 Visual Features)
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (4 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Audio in Heat Signature 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 Heat Signature, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:

Hitman (3 Audio Features)
FTL: Faster Than Light (2 Audio Features)
UnMetal (2 Audio Features)
Heavenly Bodies (2 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.

Read more about system accessibility settings.

Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Andy Robertson