Difficulty

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Watch Dogs 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.

Adjust After Setting

Adjustable Anytime: You can adjust the difficulty while playing, without having to restart the level you are on. This enables you to quickly adjust the game to suit your needs and see the difference immediately.

Reading

We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in Watch Dogs 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.

Captions

Speaker Indicator, their Tone and Environment Sounds: Captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking) and their tone, game sound and music. This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or character expressions with text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking. Environmental sounds are provided as extra text within the subtitles.

Voice Acted

Some Dialogue is Voice Acted: Some of the game dialogue and narrative is voice acted. This reduces the pressure on reading all the dialogue text, although not everything is provided audibly.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading

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

• Watch Dogs Legion (7 Reading Features)
• A Way Out (7 Reading Features)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (6 Reading Features)

Visual

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Visual in Watch Dogs which deals 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.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

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

• Watch Dogs Legion (7 Visual Features)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (5 Visual Features)
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (4 Visual Features)
• Red Dead Redemption (3 Visual Features)

Communication

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Communication in Watch Dogs which deal with how you can communicate with other players in the game and what options are available to customise and control this interaction. The following games are similar to Watch Dogs, and offer accessibility features for Communication:

• Watch Dogs Legion (5 Communication Features)
• Grand Theft Auto V (3 Communication Features)
• Pay Day 2 (1 Communication Feature)
• Death Stranding (1 Communication Feature)