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Best Games Rated PEGI 16 and Younger with Remap Game Menu Access Accessibility Settings

As part of our accessibility review, this page lists games that have been flagged with accessibility settings in the following areas.

Controls: Each of these games has been assessed for how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

  • Remap Game Menu Access: You can remap buttons to pause and access game menu.

 
Game image Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 26/05/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Adventure

Developer: @DungeonsGame

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies....

Game image Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 26/02/2016, updated in 2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: @ConcernedApe

Players: You can play this with 4 players online

Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you must also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines. Its quirky labyrinthine attention to detail is as inviting for young players to...

Game image Portal

Portal
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Portal

Portal (Series)

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Web Browser, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @ValveSoftware

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...

Game image Cuphead

Cuphead
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Cuphead

Cuphead

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 29/09/2017, updated in 2019

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Platform

Developer: @StudioMDHR

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Cuphead is a running, jumping and shooting game that looks like an old Mickey Mouse cartoon. You play on your own or with someone else and work across the screen, jumping gaps, shooting enemies and avoiding projectiles.

Game image Satisfactory

Satisfactory
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Satisfactory

Expected Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 19/03/2019, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC

Genres: Creative, Open World and Simulation

Developer: @Coffee_Stain

Players: You can play this with 4 players online

Satisfactory is a factory building set on a foreign planet. Like the popular Tycoon and Factory games in Roblox, you start with humble beginnings, you harvest what you can by hand but steadily you build a sprawling empire of automated harvesting...

Game image The Cost of Recovery

The Cost of Recovery
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The Cost of Recovery

Expected Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @OffTheBtnTrack

Players: This is a single player game

The Cost of Recovery is a narrative adventure where you play as four different people, one of whom has a stroke. How this impacts each of them is experienced first hand. Can they all get through this together or will everything start to fall apart?

Game image Disc Room

Disc Room
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Disc Room

Disc Room

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 22/10/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC

Genres: Action and Puzzle

Developer: @DevolverDigital

Players: This is a single player game

Disc Room is an action survival game set in a sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse. You are a scientist from the future exploring the facility and must get through each room that is filled with sharp discs by running and dodging. You have special...

Game image Temtem

Temtem
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Temtem

Temtem

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 21/01/2020

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Turn-Based

Developer: @PlayTemtem

Players: You can play this with 100 players online

Temtem is a role-play game like Pokemon but played online against loads of other players. You collect and train Temtem creatures (of which there are 161) while exploring the world. You encounter other creatures controlled by human or computer players...

Game image Minit

Minit
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Minit

Minit

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 28/08/2018

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Puzzle

Developer: @DevolverDigital

Players: This is a single player game

Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...

Editor's ChoiceGame image Chicory A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Chicory A Colorful Tale

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5

Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @theBanov

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Chicory: A Colourful Tale is an adventure where you play a dog wielding a magic brush. The world starts black and white and you paint to solve puzzles, help your animal friends and restore colour.

Game image Tenderfoot Tactics

Tenderfoot Tactics
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Tenderfoot Tactics

Expected Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 21/08/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based

Developer: @IceWaterGames

Players: This is a single player game

Tenderfoot Tactics is a role play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...

40% OffGame image Dead Cells

Dead Cells
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Dead Cells

Dead Cells

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 10/05/2017

Price: 40% off

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Role-Playing

Developer: @MotionTwin

Players: This is a single player game

Dead Cells is a running, jumping and fighting game where are escaping a prison. In a bright pixilated world you must accurately time attacks and dodges to defeat a wide range of enemies. It's intentionally hard, and you will die a lot. But each time you...

20% OffGame image Switch N Shoot

Switch 'N' Shoot
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Switch N Shoot

Switch 'N' Shoot

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 10/04/2019, updated in 2020

Price: 20% off

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4

Genres: Action and Shooting

Developer: @Crowbarska

Players: This is a single player game

Switch 'N' Shoot is a shooting game controlled by a single button. You pilot a star-fighter, each time you press to shot you change direction. It's a novel way to play but also can be good for players with motor impairment (and fast reactions).

Game image Bubbles The Cat

Bubbles The Cat
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Bubbles The Cat

Bubbles The Cat

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 12/04/2019

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Genres: Platform

Developer: @TeamCatsNBears

Players: This is a single player game

Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards bu must tap at the right time to survive.

Game image Race the Sun

Race the Sun
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Race the Sun

Race the Sun

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 19/08/2013

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS

Genres: Action and Racing

Developer: @Flippfly

Players: This is a single player game

Race the Sun is an arcade-inspired racing game where you helm a solar-powered craft. Your objective is simple, hurdle towards the sun dodging obstacles for as long as possible before the sun sets.

Game image Zelter

Zelter
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Zelter

Zelter

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 22/10/2020

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting

Players: This is a single player game

Zelter is a zombie survival game. But you aren't only defending yourself from the oncoming hordes of zombies but developing a safe haven for a new life like Stardew Valley.

Game image Fez

Fez
PEGI Rating 3+ for Fez

Fez

Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 13/04/2012

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and iOS

Genres: Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @PHIL_FISH

Players: This is a single player game

Fez is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space). This sounds confusing but actually develops into a mind-stretching and...

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Nidhogg
PEGI Rating 12+ for Nidhogg

Nidhogg

Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 12/09/2014, updated in 2014

Price: 55% off

Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita

Genres: Action, Fighting, Rhythm and Shooting

Developer: @Messhof

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.

Game image Arma 3

Arma 3
PEGI Rating 16+ for Arma 3

Arma 3 (Series)

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 12/09/2013

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Creative, Shooting and Simulation

Developer: @BohemiaInteract

Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online

Arma 3 is a realistic military simulator. Unlike games such as Call of Duty or Battlefield Arma focuses on realism. Rather than blockbuster effects, it spends time simulating the...

Game image Double Kick Heroes

Double Kick Heroes
PEGI Rating 16+ for Double Kick Heroes

Double Kick Heroes

Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 11/12/2018

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting and Rhythm

Developer: @headbang_club

Players: This is a single player game

Double Kick Heroes is a heavy metal rhythm game. You tap buttons in time to the music to lead your band through the zombie wasteland. It revolves around the "double kicking" drumming technique. When you get this right you can speed up the music.


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