GAME ACCESSIBILITY REVIEWS
Accessibility Game Review – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free I came to Animal Crossing: New Horizons with absolutely no prior knowledge of the franchise. Friends who are fans told me that they didn’t expect I would like it. Its laid-back nature...
Accessibility Game Review – The Last of Us: Part II
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free Disclaimer: Naughty Dog provided DAGERSystem with a code to play and review The Last of Us: Part II in time for its June 19, 2020 release date. To say that The Last of Us Part II is the...
Accessibility Game Review – Doom Eternal
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Inaccessible Auditory Barrier Free Partially Accessible Doom Eternal is the latest entry in the franchise that can rightly be considered the godfather of the first-person shooter genre. As a follow up to 2016’s Doom, it follows the...
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Indie Spotlight – Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium is the first endeavor from studio ZA/UM. It’s an RPG set in a world known as Elysium decades after a war ravaged it. The world of Elysium is the brainchild of Estonian novelist, musician, and ZA/UM studio founder Robert Kurvitz, and it first appeared in...
Resident Evil 3 Remake Accessibility Update
Escaping a zombie-invested city isn't easy especially when a giant hulking monster is out to destroy you and your friends! Resident Evil 3 remake is a modern retelling of the survival horror game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis developed by Capcom and released on the...
Indie Spotlight – Cloudpunk
Cloudpunk is the latest game by Berlin-based developer Ion Lands. It’s a game that’s essentially Blade Runner meets The Transporter, and this is by no means a bad thing. The player assumes control of Rania, a woman starting her first shift at the eponymous parcel...
Indie Spotlight – Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark
In my continued quest to stave off boredom in this time of quarantine, I have stumbled across yet another highly accessible and incredibly polished indie gem. Developed by 6 Eyes Studio, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark is a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics that...
Indie Spotlight – Gibbous – A Cthulhu Adventure
Gibbous: A Cthulu Adventure is a self-styled “comedy cosmic horror adventure” point-and-click game by Romanian studio Stuck In Attic. Funded entirely on Kickstarter and surpassing its initial budget of 39,000 Romanian Leu (approximately $8,794), the game features...
Indie Spotlight – Islanders
Quarantining during COVID-19 is especially tough when it means I have limited access to my local used games store, so more and more I’ve found myself plumbing the depths of Steam looking for inexpensive accessible games that are worth playing, and I do believe I found...
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Accessibility Update
It's time again to visit the slums of Midgar in order to save the planet from earth decay and ride some chocobos along the way! The new Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a modern reimagining of the 1997 classic RPG by Square Enix. There's an active battle system,...
2019 Diamond Award Nominee – Gears 5
Perhaps the most surprising nominee for the 2020 DAGERSystem Diamond Award is Gears 5. When compared to our review of Gears of War 4, it almost seems like the games exist in two different universes. It’s as if The Coalition systematically addressed nearly every...
2019 Diamond Award Nominee – Borderlands 3
Usually, when we review first person shooters here at DAGERSystem, we have to look at the game in terms of what trade offs it makes in order to be accessible. Typically, FPS games can be either forgiving or flexible. Often, you have either an arcade shooter, which may...