Controls

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Controls in Song of Bloom 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 Song of Bloom, and offer accessibility features for Controls:

• A Little To The Left (13 Controls Features)
• Outer Wilds (12 Controls Features)
• We Were Here (11 Controls Features)
• Isles of Sea and Sky (6 Controls Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 9 accessibility features for Getting Started in Song of Bloom 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.

Onboarding Before Play

Before you are presented with the home screen, onboarding settings aim to aid you accessing the menus you need to adjust the game to your requirements. They can also provide an easier way of turning on important adjustments without digging through menus.

Onboarding: The first time you open the game, you are asked to confirm options for control, navigation and accessibility settings. Games can differ in what they present at this stage, but will count for this, provided they include a streamlined onboarding process.

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.

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.

No Jump Scares: No sudden loud noises or popping-up scary visuals that unexpectedly appear without warning, or the option to disable them.

Assistance For Progressing

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

Guaranteed Progress With God Mode: There is no fail state for any game level, where you lose progress or have to start again. Or there are options to make failing impossible: infinite health or lives, unlimited time. Sometimes called God Mode or Unfailable.

Assisted Progress With Boosts: If you fail frequently the game automatically gets easier to ease the likelihood of failure. Or there’s an option to start this happening, like giving more health, lives or power each time you fail. Sometimes called Rubber Banding.

Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.

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.

Navigation

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Navigation in Song of Bloom 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 Song of Bloom, and offer accessibility features for Navigation:

• Outer Wilds (6 Navigation Features)
• Tiny Lands (3 Navigation Features)
• Where is Cat? (2 Navigation Features)
• We Were Here (1 Navigation Feature)

Audio

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Audio in Song of Bloom 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 Song of Bloom, and offer accessibility features for Audio:

• A Little To The Left (3 Audio Features)
• Tiny Lands (2 Audio Features)
• One Button Travel (2 Audio Features)
• Isles of Sea and Sky (2 Audio Features)