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Everything Revealed During The 2025 Access-Ability Summer Showcase
Ahead of Summer Games Fest, the 2025 Access-Ability Summer Showcase took place, highlighting accessibility and representation in video games
Article Summary
- The 2025 Access-Ability Summer Showcase spotlighted over 20 games embracing accessibility and inclusion
- Highlights featured games designed for blind players and experiences with customizable accessibility options
- Diverse game genres were represented, from rhythm mini-games to narrative-driven adventures and puzzle titles
- Major focus on authentic disability representation and uplifting stories across all showcased video games
Ahead of Summer Game Fest kicking off today, the 2025 Access-Ability Summer Showcase took place, showing off several titles during its nearly hour-long stream. Hosted by Laura Kate Dale, better known as LauraKBuzz, the show highlighted several titles that put a focus on accessibility in video games, as well as representation, as over 20 games were highlighted throughout the showcase. We have the full list and the video here in case you missed it.
ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard
Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 perfectly fine!
Spray Paint Simulator
Bring color to the world in Spray Paint Simulator! Restore worn-out surfaces with a fresh coat of paint and watch them come back to life. Use your spray tool with precision, cover every inch, and enjoy the satisfaction of a flawless finish.
The Unseen Awakening
This game essentially has no visuals, it's designed for players who are visually impaired. Visual cues are available, but for a complete experience, they're not recommended. If possible, please rely on auditory cues to play.
Lacus Oportunitas
Lacus Opportunitas is a trading simulator set on a circular lake in the center of a lunar city. From a meager ten credits, and an entrepreneurial spirit, you may grow that exponentially by buying and selling commodities between its diversity of ports.
Barista
Cozy barista game accessible for the blind gamers.
Necromancer Nonsense
It's the blood moon! Time to take over the world… or it would be if every other half-baked necromancer and vampire weren't trying the same thing. Capture buildings and locations full of bits and bobs you can use to build your army, and conquer all! Made in 1 month for the "Games for Blind Gamers" game jam! So should be fully blind accessible.
Quest Giver
You're an NPC who gives quests to heroes. Play through seven scenarios in this humorous narrative adventure with management sim gameplay and a real sassy manager. Now get to work!
Six-Sided Stories
A short and cozy puzzler with chill lofi beats: flip the puzzle pieces and colour them correctly to reveal the full picture! Discover how each image leads into the next, following a crew of adorable animals as they make friends and have wholesome adventures.
Soulblaze
Grab your bindshards, pet your animons, and go on an adventure. This game is a creature collecting and dice rolling roguelite. Fight your way through several regions and beat their bosses, build your team as you go, find consumables, teach your creatures tricks, and become the strongest animancer!
Wednesdays
Like so many children, Tim was a victim of sexual abuse. Twenty years later, while playing Orco Park, a videogame from his childhood, his memories will come rushing back along with a flood of questions : How could this have happened? Who knew? How has it shaped him? What does "normal" even mean? Written by Pierre Corbinais (Haven, Road 96: Prologue, Bury Me, My Love), Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly uplifting story. Wednesdays tells a fragmented story through multiple perspectives. Build rides and embellishments in Orco Park to unlock Tim's memories in the order you see fit.
Heartspell: Horizon Academy
Welcome to Heartspell: Horizon Academy, a magical dating game with a lot of heart and a little spice! You're the newest student at the Horizon Wizarding Academy, an eclectic institution deep in the spirit realms. There you'll learn magic, meet fellow students, and uncover secrets that threaten the very foundation of the academy. Heartspell is a game about dating sirens, werewolves, fairies, and a host of other wizarding students. Solve puzzles and build relationships as you explore the stories of deep, nuanced characters populating a rich world brimming with fantasy, wonder, and just a little spice.
Gales of Nayeli
Face an impending darkness threatening the world of Iuven alongside Nayeli and an interesting cast of warriors. Control varied battlefields in Grid-Based Strategy RPG format to bring an end to a conflict that is certain to echo across generations.
Untimely Hidden: Patara
Untimely Hidden is a hidden object game with a humorous take on time travel. But it's not that easy! Because no one will tell you what the objects you need to find are. You'll know it when you see it, trust us. Jaxon is a tenacious, diligent and naive Time Agent. He is proud to be Agent #247 of the PAST, that is Preservation Agency for Space-Time! He is always ready and waiting for a new mission! After all, what could be better than feeling like a hero? To be a hero!
Sunlight
Sunlight is a short, vibrant and thought captivating exploration game, from the creators of Among the Sleep, Mosaic and The Plan. Journey into the uncharted forest, guided by the harmonised whispers of the trees. Each tree with different voices, genders and dialects, speaking as one. Taking artistic inspiration from expressionist painters like Monet and Munch and focusing on a powerful 3D audio experience with breath-taking choir work, Sunlight will leave you feeling entranced and in wonder in this artistic approach to telling you a story.
Cairn
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
Airships: Lost Flotilla
Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.
Rollick N' Roll
Rollick N' Roll combines fun physics with intuitive controls to deliver a joyful puzzle experience for all ages. Explore a collection of marvelous marble runs, with a modern twist.
Trash Goblin
A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no time pressure! Uncover & clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy better tools, plus expand and customise your space.
Blow-Up: Avenge Humanity
Blow-Up: Avenge Humanity is a single-player fast paced first person shooter campaign where you take control of an industrial robot rewired by the last human being to violently dispatch the alien race accountable for Earth's destruction. Are you ready to become the ultimate avenger?
Intrapology
Does it feel like being a person in this world doesn't quite come naturally to you? Do things like gender and money feel like alien concepts, that you just have to go along with in order to get by? If so, you're not the only one! The Transdimensional Research Institute assigns sentient beings to target worlds, as part of its ambitious programme of anthropological research. The world you are assigned shapes you, so by understanding yourself you can better understand the world. The more worlds we study together, the better we can understand the social and cultural forces that create them.
Bits & Bops
Bits & Bops is a collection of original rhythm mini-games! Filled with catchy music, snappy gameplay and gorgeous, hand-drawn animation, Bits & Bops is sure to brighten your day.
Coming Home
A retro slasher horror game, with a focus on home defense. In the dead of night, you hear someone lurking outside – but you are not defenseless. Watch the cameras, barricade your doors, and have your gun at the ready – anything to keep the Sundown Rippers from claiming their next victim.
