Moving Out
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Released: April 2020. Added to this library 6 months ago, last updated 8 weeks ago.
Overview
Moving Out is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company. With up to four players you work together to get items out of the house and into the van. Although this starts simply you soon find furniture that is an awkward shape or needs two people to lift.
This game is good if you want to play with motor impairment, play games with visibility features, play games with Deaf/HoH features, connect with grandparents or control and order things.
Commitment
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs
In-game purchase of additional content like the “Employees of the Month” pack that adds four exclusive mover characters. This comes free if you pre-ordered the game.
Accessibility
- Difficulty: Different difficulty modes and customizable level of challenge. Assist mode with longer time limits for less pressure. Can still progress if you fail.
- Reading: Dyslexia friendly text. Subtitles for all dialogue and instructions. Text is clear and easy to read.
- Controls: Remappable controls for mouse and keyboard, but only limited selections for gamepads. Toggle alternatives for hold down inputs. Simple controls.
- Image calibration: Scaleable interface size for ease of reading. Colourblind friendly visual cues for game events use colour and shapes for indication.
- Audio calibration: Narration and instructions have subtitles. Audio cues for visual events in-game.
System settings: Nintendo Switch has some built-in features, including a lockable zoom, that can be used on all games. 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 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping). Xbox One has a wide range of system features including some that can be used on all games, like the excellent co-pilot mode... read more.
Similar Games
The following games address a similar topic or offer a similar way to play. They are good options to play after Moving Out, and also offer a range of alternatives for different age ratings.
Trash Sailors
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control the group of castaways after a tsunami flooded the world. You navigate the ocean and build your raft with trash nearby which you can recycle into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons....
Scrappers
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Scrappers is a futuristic fighting game with a twist. You are not only battling the bots but fighting to manage waste as you traverse the city streets and take out the trash. You can play the game on your own or in a team of four mechanised trash...
Conduct Together (Series)
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Duration: Between 3 minutes and 5 minutes to play a round.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost. In-game purchases.
Conduct Together is a strategy game where you control toy trains along the overlapping train tracks. Each train can be started and stopped with a specific button. Other buttons change different points. The aim is to transport the people from one...
Heave Ho
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Duration: Between 4 hours and 5 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
No Heroes Here
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Duration: Between 6 hours and 7 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
No Heroes Here is a co-operative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Puzzle
Duration: Between 20 minutes and half an hour to complete.
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
In this game you’re confronted with a bomb on the screen that has to be defused, requiring a series of modules to be disarmed. The bomb defuser player can see and operate the bomb but the other players, who have the defuse instructions, can’t. The...
Spaceteam (Series)
Genres: Action, Physically Active, Puzzle and Strategy
Duration: Between 5 minutes and 15 minutes to complete.
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Free. In-game purchases.
Players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral Synth’, ‘Gripvent’, ‘Starmesh’,...
Overcooked
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost. In-game purchases.
Overcooked and Overcooked 2 is a collaborative cooking game for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated as you prepare food in ever...
Supermarket Shriek
Platforms: Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing and Simulation
Duration: Between 5 minutes and 10 minutes to play a round.
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Supermarket Shriek is a kart racing game where you control a shopping trolley with a goat co-pilot. You have to navigate through obstacles and challenges in a range of shops, boutiques and supermarkets.
Good Job!
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform and Simulation
Duration: Between 6 hours and 8 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
You play an office employee with a difference. Together with a friend you must climb the corporate ladder to take over the family business. But rather than starting as tea boy and working up, you have a set of more bizarre office problems: building zen...
Tower of Babel No Mercy
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action and Simulation
Duration: Between 1 minute and 10 minutes to play a round.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Tower of Babel is a game where you work with friends to build a tower out of buildings. You control the game with a single button (and one more for special abilities) to drop your building on the stack. It swings left and right so you have to time it...
Death Squared
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Death Squared is a cooperative puzzle game for 1, 2 or 4 players. Together, you solve puzzles by guiding a robot to a colour-coded goal. Getting there requires co-operation and communication as each player's path has deadly traps and hazards.
Ibb and Obb
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 3
Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle
Duration: Between 6 hours and 9 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Ibb & Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for co-operation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Nintendoland
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle, Racing, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
This collection of Nintendo games was created for the Nintendo Wii U launch. It uses the console’s tablet screen to create specific roles for different players. In Mario Chase, the hiding player uses the tablet controller screen while the four seekers...
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Series)
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS/3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Physically Active and Sports
Duration: Between 2 minutes and 10 minutes to play a round.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online.
Costs: Free-to-start.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a series of simple competitive sports games featuring characters from Nintendo and Sega. Each game in the series is themed around a different Olympic year and location.
This Means Warp
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
This Means Warp is a strategy combat game where four players work together to run a spaceship as you travel the solar system. Together you have to manage the ship, repair damage and take charge of shooting enemies. It's frantic battling and a lot of fun...
Catastronauts
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Duration: Between 6 hours and 8 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
This is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the...
Cannon Brawl
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting, Shooting and Strategy
Duration: Between 2 hours and 4 hours to complete.
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs: Purchase cost.
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Moving Out is in These Lists
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Moving Out in the following lists:
Designed For Reduced Motor Function
- Remap Controls: Remapping buttons and swapping joysticks (like Fortnite) help customize the player’s way to interact with the game, also helping players that use only one hand.
- No Holding: Some games (like Moving Out) also offer the option to avoid having to hold any buttons down for actions like aiming, opening or equipping. You can use simple taps or toggles instead to reduce muscular fatigue.
- Sensitivity: Some of these games (like Fortnite) also enable you to adjust control sensitivity as well as controller vibration if that is present.
- Fewer Buttons: Simpler controls (like FIFA) are good to consider, as well as those that offer extensive difficulty settings.
- Speed: Reducing how fast a game plays (like Eagle Island) is a helpful setting.
- Difficulty: Offering customisable difficulty, like how fast a game plays (like Eagle Island) or adding invincibility (like Celeste), and other features allow tailoring the game to the player’s needs.
Wield Absolute Control
If games offer an escape from chaos, these games are particularly good at granting a sense of satisfying agency and power as they do that. Whether it’s ordering the perfect stock room in Wilmot’s Warehouse, organising your island in Animal Crossing, perfectly controlling the flow of traffic in Mini Motorways or even build civilisation just the way you want it in Civilization the sense of satisfaction and calm from the achievement is second to none.
Designed With Deaf and Hard of Hearing Features
However, games that include well-illustrated subtitles or captions can enable these players to understand what's being spoken through dialogue, and what's going on in the surrounding area.
Providing subtitles and captions is a good first step. But also important is that subtitles are readable and stand out from the game. Some games do this by adding a background, or a heavy drop shadow behind the text while others use colours to separate different meanings. Metro Exodus, for example, will inform the player where an enemy is located in the world through captions.
Where audio is used to locate events in the game world, a visual representation of this information is helpful. Games such as Fortnite have an audio visualiser ring that identifies where key audio (and the related event) is coming from. Assassin's Creed Odyssey uses a similar feature to indicate nearby dangers.
Games that enable Deaf and hard of hearing players with subtitles, captions and visual indicators are hugely welcomed by the community, with wider accessibility benefits for other players who can opt to benefit from these interface enhancements as well.
Designed To Be Easier To See
- Fonts: Larger, scalable font sizes and bold fonts, like Moving Out.
- Zoom: Ability to increase the size of all objects on the screen such as in Untitled Goose Game's zoom feature.
- Contrast: Settings to adjust contrast and brightness, as well as distinct colours with good lighting, like Splatoon.
- Non-Visual Cues: Sounds and haptic feedback that help direct the player, like Lego games.
- Colourblind: Modes that invert colours or change colours to accommodate different types of colourblindness, such as in Hue.
- Screen Readers: Functions that read text and menus as they are highlighted and appear on the screen, such as in Eagle Island.
Some platforms provide system-wide accessibility features that help. The Nintendo Switch offers a built-in zoom function, while the Xbox offers co-pilot mode that allows two people to play as a single player. Such features create necessary flexibility for players.
There are many different types of visual impairments, and no two people ever see things the exact same way. Because of this, games that are accessible for one person may not be accessible to all low vision gamers. For gamers who find visual games too cumbersome, audio-only games may provide a solution.
It may be difficult for parents and caregivers who are fully sighted to understand which games will be easier to see. The best way to learn about what works and what doesn’t is hearing from people with impaired vision themselves. Can I Play That? has a variety of reviews discussing accessibility of games for people with disabilities, by people with disabilities.
Ease Loneliness With Intergenerational Games
Video games are one way that we can reconnect with each other, without needing to be in the same place. Finding games to play online with grandparents and carers is not only a good way to keep in touch but a lot of fun.
The games on this page are part of the PLAY&TALK Weekend, which has launched in time for National Loneliness Awareness Week, aims to reduce feelings of isolation by getting people to talk with friends or family safely online. Backed by over 30 companies in the games industry, the Play&Talk weekend hopes to initiate 10,000 extra conversations across the UK through the power of games.- Co-operative: Some of the games are good ways to connect and play co-operatively online (like Feather, Overcooked 2, Ibb and Obb, Skylanders Children of Light).
- Competitive: With some practice there are easy and fun online competitive games (like Tricky Towers, Videoball)
- Asynchronous: Other games are a way to connect and play without being online at the same time (like Horizon Chase Turbo, Worms, Words With Friends, Wargroove, Animal Crossing).
- Community: Then there are games that connect you with a wider player community in a gentle non-invasive way (like The First Tree, Journey, Lost Words, The Endless Forrest).
Thanks for using our resource. We are editorially independant, written by parents for parents, but welcome sponsorship, partnership and suggestions. It is supported by the Get Smart About PLAY campaign from AskAboutGames.com. For more advice and guidance on video games, also check out my Taming Gaming book.Tweet
Email a correction for Moving Out.