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Xbox X|SWe've documented 29 accessibility features for Weird West, including Adjust Speed, Select Difficulty, No Button Combos, Play Without Hearing and Colour Blind Friendly. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Reading but it also has features in Navigation, Visual, Getting Started, Difficulty and Audio to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Weird West accessibility 15 months ago.
Accessibility Notes
You can change the size of text size, but even at a maximum it can still be quite small in places, but all text is high in contrast. You can also adjust the size of the HUD.
contrast, flashes, bg. sick
There are parts of the game that can appear low in contrast at times, and many elements can be very small. you can disable flashes in the options menu. Because of the camera angle, much of the background is the ground, so there are rarely any distracting elements. There are no motion effects, but in some cutscenes, there is a chromatic operation effect on the sides of the screen.
Game Details
Release Date: 31/03/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Action, Role-Play, Simulation (Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Shooting and Traversal)
Accessibility: 29 features
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Developer: Wolf Eye Games (@WolfEyeGames)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 8 accessibility features for Controls in Weird West 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 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.
Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.
Button Combinations
Specific button operation required to play
No Simultaneous Buttons: Only one button or key required at a time, in addition to direction stick(s).
Controller Vibration
Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.
Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates events or interactions in the game, echoing visual and audio cues. This can provide additional information about progress, approaching enemies or hitting a target.
Sensitivity
You can adjust
Adjust Mouse/Stick/Touch Sensitivity: Adjust how sensitive touch/mouse/stick controls are.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Roto Force (12 Controls Features)
- 1428: Shadows over Silesia (11 Controls Features)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (11 Controls Features)
- Days Gone (10 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Weird West 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.
Getting Started
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Getting Started in Weird West 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.
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 Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- 1428: Shadows over Silesia (8 Getting Started Features)
- Deathloop (7 Getting Started Features)
- Roto Force (6 Getting Started Features)
- Roadwarden (6 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Reading in Weird West 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.
Extensive Complex Reading: Extensive reading required. The quantity and complexity of reading is suitable for someone who loves long books and enjoys extended dialogue or narrative descriptions.
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: Textual captions indicate who is speaking (or there is only ever one person speaking). This can also be indicated visually in the game with character icons or placing text in speech bubbles next to the person speaking.
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 Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Fallout 4 (7 Reading Features)
- Roto Force (6 Reading Features)
- Pentiment (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We've documented 5 accessibility features for Navigation in Weird West 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
Adjust Head-Up Display: Resize and adjust the content of the head-up display. This enables it to be made more visible. It can also enable the removal of too much information that can be distracting or confusing.
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.
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 Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:
- 1428: Shadows over Silesia (10 Navigation Features)
- Thousand Threads (8 Navigation Features)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (8 Navigation Features)
- Days Gone (7 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 4 accessibility features for Visual in Weird West 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 Flashes: No flashing strobe effects or you can disable them. This includes the absence of flashing from dramatic visual effects, explosions or weather effects like lightning.
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.
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 Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Trifox (8 Visual Features)
- Thousand Threads (7 Visual Features)
- Minishoot Adventures (6 Visual Features)
- 1428: Shadows over Silesia (6 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in Weird West 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 Weird West, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Roadwarden (3 Audio Features)
- Trifox (3 Audio Features)
- Deathloop (3 Audio Features)
- Thousand Threads (3 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games.
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).
PlayStation 5
PlayStation 5 has a range of system-wide accessibility settings.
Xbox One
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.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall
