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Steam will get new features. Their aim is to make players' life easier

Valve wants to improve the search on Steam for games with easy access options and will make the appropriate changes later this year.

Jacob Blazewicz

Steam will get new features. Their aim is to make players' life easier, image source: Valve Corporation..
Steam will get new features. Their aim is to make players' life easier Source: Valve Corporation..

Valve is making it easier for gamers with disabilities to find games that are accessible to them.

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Gabe Newell's company is constantly introducing new improvements for s and developers on the most popular PC digital distribution platform. The company reminded about this as part of the March summary of Steam's development and assured that it has plans for more changes.

The latest post from Valve reveals that the improvements will focus on features that many creators have been adding in recent years: options related to accessibility. Thanks to them, more players can enjoy video games, even those who theoretically shouldn't be able to have fun with many titles.

Nevertheless, not every game offers such , even if you disregard older games. Not every "available" production takes into such options. Hence, the new questionnaire for developers and publishers about the accessibility features present in their games. It's about the options for the audiovisual layer and difficulty level, as well as the "data input" options, including changing written text to speech and vice versa.

Valve plans to make this information available to Steam s as soon as the publishers fill it up (the platform owner wants to give them some time for this). This will take into the data on game cards and new options in the Steam search engine, which the company presented in a screenshot.

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Source: Valve.

In theory, the new "tags" won't be mandatory, but let's be honest: developers will want to include them so that people searching for games with certain accessibility features will find their title after applying the relevant filters. Developers can find more information on the Steam partners help page.

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Jacob Blazewicz

Author: Jacob Blazewicz

Graduated with a master's degree in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw with a thesis dedicated to this very subject. Started his adventure with gamepressure.androidapks.biz in 2015, writing in the Newsroom and later also in the film and technology sections (also contributed to the Encyclopedia). Interested in video games (and not only video games) for years. He began with platform games and, to this day, remains a big fan of them (including Metroidvania). Also shows interest in card games (including paper), fighting games, soulslikes, and basically everything about games as such. Marvels at pixelated characters from games dating back to the time of the Game Boy (if not older).

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