Singled Out
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Released: July 2020. Added to this library 3 weeks ago, last updated 2 weeks ago.
Overview
Singled Out is a spot the difference shooting game. Like the classic Guess Who game you have seconds to identify your target in a crowd. Make sure you only shoot the character matching the eyes, nose and mouth clues and you score points. The quicker you are the more points you get.
It's short and fun but also challenging. The goal is simply to beat your high score, climb the online leaderboards and last as long as you can. It's ideal for 5 minute breaks or parties (where everyone can work together and yell at the person playing).
There are 30 levels and a final boss. It offers three modes:
- Family Friendly Mode: remove all references to violence and shooting for an experience better suited to younger players.
- Practice Mode: disable the strict time limit to practice in a casual, stress-free environment.
- Memory Mode: unlock this challenge mode to truly put your skills to the test.
Tip
This game is good if you want to take on a mountainous challenge, have silly fun together, hide and seek, nurture imagination in primary school children or play old games like new.
Commitment
Costs
Ratings
The Family Friendly mode removes all blood and shooting for an experience suitable to younger players.
Accessibility
- Difficulty: Family Friendly Mode removes violence and shooting. The Practice Mode removes the time limit to reduce stress. There's also a harder Memory Mode that requires to retain clues after they have vanished.
- Reading: A few instructions to read, with white pixel style text on dark background.
- Controls: One stick and one button controls. It also supports single touch via touch screen or mouse. You can adjust controller sensitivity.
- Image calibration: You can't disable screen shake but the visuals are bright and clear. You do need to distinguish relatively nuanced features on the characters to identify the right one.
- Audio calibration: Control sound and music volume separately.
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... read more.
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Singled 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 Singled Out in the following lists:
Hide and Seek
Hide In A Crowd: There are games like Spy Party, Thief Town, Hidden in Plain Sight and Buissons, that let you play as a range of characters and then challenge another player to find you amongst a computer-controlled crowd, from what way you move and interact. The Fruit game in Game and Wario on Wii U has the same mechanics, with one person trying to steal fruit without the other players working out who they are. Wii Party offers hiding in its Spot the Sneak mode where one player has a secret advantage in the mini-games that the other players have to spot. Another great example is Wii U Party, Lost and Found Square mode. One player stands in a crowd of identical people and uses the Wii U gamepad to look around and describe their location to other players, who use the TV to explore and find them. At the end, you see a map of where the players had run.
Prop Hunt: There are games with "Prop Hunt" modes where you can change into the items in the world to hide. Fortnite has a great Prop Hunt mode, as does Minecraft. Then there are games like Witch It designed around this idea of transforming into normal items and hiding in a game world.
Separate Screens: There games like Mario Chase and Luigi's Ghosthouse in Nintendoland, or Pac-Man Vs where one person has their own screen while the others team up to hunt for them use the main TV screen. Or games you play online where everyone has their own screen and try to hide from a particular character like in Secret Neighbor. Screencheat is a twist on this, where you share the same screen and try to shoot each other, but your characters are invisible.
Hidden Objects: Or there are hidden object games where the computer hides things that you have to find, like Hidden Folks and Hidden Through Time. There's a hidden object mode in Mario Odyssey where you hunt online player's hidden balloons. A twist on this is Here Kitty where one person hides a phone that then makes cat noises until the seeker has found it.
Open World Hiding: You can use pretty much any open-world game to make your own hiding fun. You can hide in Minecraft (having turned nameplates off), sneak around on public transport in or simply count to 10 while visitors hide in Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Attempt The Impossible
This might be grappling with the flying mechanics in Rocket League, getting endlessly lost trying to find the next guardian in Shadow of the Collosus or coming up with the right tactic to get enough money for the ship you need in Elite. Of course, some of these games can be made easier, but to play them at their best is to ramp up the difficulty to max (crushing on The Last Of Us for example) and let them give you all they've got.
Reimagined Retro Classics
The games in this list have been recreated (sometimes officially and sometimes unofficially) by developers who love and respect the original while also wanting to update it for modern technology and players.
Embrace Silliness
Whether it's the crazy puzzles in Baba is You or Twister-like contorsions of Fru or stomach churningly difficulty of walking in Octodad Deadliest Catch, these are games that will make you shreek and laugh together. Then there are silly multiplayer games like Super Pole Riders, Heave Ho or Wii Party where parents, carers and children take on bizarre or precarious challenges. The play often descends into giggling and laughter.
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