Sure, so here’s the thing. Valve, you know, the video game company—well, they’re doing something pretty cool for gamers. They made these tweaks to Steam, yeah? Now you can hunt down games based on accessibility stuff. Which is, honestly, about time, right?
Anyway, I stumbled upon their blog post, and they’re talking about rolling out more info on what video games need in terms of accessibility. Users can now poke around for games that let you mess with gameplay difficulty or even whether you can change the size of the text. Oh, and narrated menus too. They sound fancy, I guess.
The deets are on each game’s store page too. For real. Valve said something like, “Hey, we’re making it easier for folks to find games that give them a hand with what they need,” or something along those lines. It’s one of those things where they gathered all this feedback—not just from the developers but from players with disabilities as well. Which, like, duh, should be the case everywhere—play the game, get the input.
Now, they’ve got over 5,000 games spilling the beans on what accessibility bells and whistles they’ve got. And developers are updating their games like every day. It’s kinda wild when you think about it.
So yeah, this is all over the Steam store now, making it easier for gamers to suss out what games have what they need. You can even filter through them to nail down the ones that click with what you’re looking for. Wild, right?
