Best Video Games with "Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue" Accessibility Settings

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

Getting Started: Each of these games has been assessed for 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. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:

Assistance For Progressing: These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue: The game enables you to review the history of conversations or provides highlights of the information you gather in a form you can review.

Henry Halfhead

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Henry Halfhead is a traversal game where you move around by possessing and controlling any object within your reach. You move around the world freely, but to get where you need to go you need to become the objects around you to use their abilities. It...

Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange (Series)

Release Date: 19/01/2016

Platforms: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

This is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover the ability to...

Return to Monkey Island

Release Date: 19/09/2022

Platforms: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click pirate adventure where you complete puzzles, meet the other pirates and explore the tropical island and high seas on your path to fortune and glory. As a continuation of the [link to...

The Outer Worlds

Release Date: 23/10/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World

The Outer Worlds is a futuristic role-playing game where you are a colonist working to thaw your team and colonise the planet. Exploring, talking, shooting; how you do this is up to you, in what soon becomes a tangle plot of corporate control and...

Stories of Blossom

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Stories of Blossom is a narrative point-and-click game where you play Clara as her grandfather tells her stories. In each story you take on a different character and go on adventures as you solve puzzles.

Norco

Release Date: 24/03/2022

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Norco is a gothic point-and-click narrative adventure set in the decaying suburbs and industrial swamps of an alternative South Louisiana. Your brother goes missing after your mother's death and you set out to find him by following a fugitive security...

The Sexy Brutale

Release Date: 11/04/2017

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

The Sexy Brutale is a time-loop adventure puzzle where you play an elderly priest who wakes up in a mansion on the day of a masquerade party. As you explore you realise its inhabitants are being killed off one by one. It stands out for the murder...

Triangle Strategy

Release Date: 04/03/2022, updated in 2022

Platforms: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

Triangle Strategy is an action role-playing game that combines a complex branching plot with grid-based battles like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars. It stands out not only for its unusual diorama visuals, but by creating an intertwining story of many...

Brok the Investigator

Release Date: 26/08/2022, updated in 2023

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Brok The Investigator is a point-and-click narrative adventure set in a cyberpunk future where animals have replaced humans. Play is an unusual combination of finding and combining items along with action fights and exploration. It stands out for the...

Roadwarden

Release Date: 12/09/2022

Platforms: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Pixels and Text

Roadwarden is a narrative text-adventure where you work as a sheriff trying to keep the peace (and trade) on the central roads of their community. What you do is similar to other adventure games (explore a dark fantasy world, interact with locals) but...

Shadows Over Loathing

Release Date: 11/11/2022

Platforms: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Shadows Over Loathing is a (slap)stick-figure adventure full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries, set in a fantasy-horror version of 1920's prohibition-era United States. You play as a paranormal detective following a trail of cursed artefacts in hope...

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a stealth puzzle game where you play Mittens the cat who can use quantum theory to divide in two. You play by controlling Mittens and infiltrating a secret research facility and taking advantage of being able to be in two...

Curated lists:
Game genre:
Style of Play:
Components:

How long to play:
User-generated content:	No
Accessibility features:	Yes

Controls
Gamepad:
Mouse And Keyboard:
Touchscreen:
Motion:	Motion Aiming Motion Pointing Motion Tilting Motion Gesture Motion Camera
Remap Controls:
Button Combinations:	Holding Down Buttons Optional Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional No Simultaneous Buttons
Controller Vibration:
Sensitivity:

Getting Started
Onboarding Before Play:
Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
Assistance For Progressing:	Guaranteed Progress With God Mode Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints Assisted Progress With Boosts Assisted Progress With Hints Assisted Recall for Characters Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue Save Progress Anytime

Reading
Reading Level:
Text Visibility:	Large Clear Text High Contrast Text
Subtitles:
Captions:
Voice Acted:

Controls

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Navigation

Visual

Audio

Communication

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Physical

Visual

Audio

Gender and Sexuality

Best Video Games with "Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue" Accessibility Settings

Henry Halfhead

Life Is Strange (Series)

Return to Monkey Island

The Outer Worlds

Stories of Blossom

Norco

The Sexy Brutale

Triangle Strategy

Brok the Investigator

Roadwarden

Shadows Over Loathing

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

Subscribe to our free newsletter

Navigation
Clarity:
Head-Up Display:
Menu Navigation:

Visual
Contrast:
Interactive Elements:
Visual Distractions:
Audio Cues for Visual Events:
Narration for Visual Elements:
	Motion Sickness Friendly
Colour Options:
Play Without Sight:
Violence:

Audio
	Balance Audio Levels
Audio Events:
	Play Without Hearing

Communication
Player-to-Player Online Communication:
Online Communication Assistance:

Difficulty
Difficulty Options:	Simple and Full Version No Memorisation Advantage No Hidden Information No Deceit Advantage No Colour Advantage No Mathematics Advantage No Weighing Decisions

Getting Started
Assistance Getting Started:	Clear Manual Electronic Version of Manual Electronic Version of Manual for Screen Readers Getting Started Video Digital Version Reference Aid
Assistance Progressing:	Play Order Tokens (Or play order doesn’t change) Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Low Impact Catch Up Rule

Reading
Reading Level:
Necessary Text Visibility:	Large Clear Text on Board (Or no text required) Large Clear Text on Cards (Or no text required) High Contrast Text (Or no text required) QR Code For Text (Or no text required) Primary and Secondary Text Distinguishable (Or no text required) Information Orientation Clear Icons

Physical
Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
Cards:	Large Card Size Standard Card Shape Limited Hand Management No Excessive Card Shuffling No Right-Handed Advantage
Placement:	No Unbound Placement Player Components Not Shared No Fiddly Placement Easily Verbalised Actions

Visual
Printed Visibility:	Colour Blind Friendly Design Double-Coding Colour High Contrast Colours
Component Identifiability:	Outline Key Elements No Busy Backgrounds Easily Verbalised Game State No Close Inspection Disadvantage Playable Without Sight

Audio
Communication:	Audio Cues Mirrored Visually (Or no critical audio signals) No Pressured Reveals No Pressured Communication Playable Without Hearing

Search:
Type:

Minimum age rating:
Age of player:

Platform:
How many players:
How long to learn:

In-game purchases:
Cost:
Released:

Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality Choices:
Gender Representation:
Sexual Orientation Representation:

Search by game

Search by interaction

Refine for your family

Video Game Accessibility Filters

Controls

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Navigation

Visual

Audio

Communication

Board Game Accessibility Filters

Difficulty

Getting Started

Reading

Physical

Visual

Audio

Diversity and Inclusion Filters

Gender and Sexuality

Best Video Games with "Assisted Recall for Narrative and Dialogue" Accessibility Settings

Subscribe to our free newsletter