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Xbox X|SWe've documented 18 accessibility features for RoboCo, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Low Pressure, No Quick Reactions, No Button Combos and No Repeated Pressing. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Controls but it also has features in Reading, Visual, Audio and Navigation to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked RoboCo accessibility 17 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
The text in the game is all high in contrast, but is often quite small and can as a result be difficult to read. There is a significant amount of reading involved, especially if you choose to use Python to create the code for your robots. If you do use Python, you need to have a significant level of familiarity with it before starting as not everything is explained, although how to use the simpler coding is well-explained.
While in each challenge you are given a main objective and two secondary objectives, some of the objectives are secret and can only be discovered by completing them. Because of the open-ended way you can complete each task, you are often given little guidance on what to do.
Many items in the game can be low contrast in creation to each other, and can also be quite small.
Game Details
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Simulation, World Building (Brain Game and Creative)
Accessibility: 18 features
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Developer: Filament Games (@FilamentGames)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Controls in RoboCo 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 Mouse and Keyboard: Can remap mouse and keyboard key bindings, on systems that support these controls.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
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 RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Minecraft (11 Controls Features)
- Mars First Logistics (10 Controls Features)
- Game Builder Garage (7 Controls Features)
- Lemmings (6 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in RoboCo 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. The following games are similar to RoboCo, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:
- Minecraft (3 Difficulty Features)
- I Wanna Maker (2 Difficulty Features)
- Geometry Dash (1 Difficulty Feature)
Getting Started
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Getting Started in RoboCo 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.
Practice Area: You can practice freely without opponents or time pressures. This can be a specific practice option, or the ability to play levels with the easiest opponents to improve understanding and skill.
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.
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 RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Learning Factory (8 Getting Started Features)
- Mars First Logistics (7 Getting Started Features)
- Rabbids Coding (7 Getting Started Features)
- Minecraft (7 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in RoboCo 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.
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 RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
Navigation
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in RoboCo which deals 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.
Menu Navigation
Menus Don't Wrap: Menus don't wrap and stop the cursor at the bottom of the list if you press down. Or menus do wrap but make it clear that you are back at the top of the list with sound or narration.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation
If you want to play RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- Learning Factory (8 Navigation Features)
- Mars First Logistics (7 Navigation Features)
- Minecraft (7 Navigation Features)
- MouseCraft (3 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Visual in RoboCo which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
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.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Learning Factory (7 Visual Features)
- Game Builder Garage (6 Visual Features)
- Minecraft (6 Visual Features)
- Rabbids Coding (5 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in RoboCo 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 RoboCo, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, this similar game extends the Audio accessibility:
- Minecraft (4 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 Ben Kendall
