God of War Ragnarök will offer as many accessibility options as The Last of Us

One of the core focuses by studios in recent years has been the desire to make their games more and more accessible, with each year seeing games offer more options for players of all kinds. God of War Ragnarök is set to arrive early next month, and ahead of its launch, the studio has confirmed their commitment to offering as many accessibility options as possible.

Back in 2020 we reported that Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II would offer over 60 accessibility options, ranging from the visual to the auditory and everything in between. Since then, more and more studios have followed in their footsteps, upping the ante when it comes to accessibility. Naughty Dog then set the standard once again with the recently-released The Last of Us Part 1, taking Part II as their baseline and going far beyond.

Now, it has been confirmed that God of War Ragnarök will be equally as accessible, with game director Eric Williams saying to GamesRadar “We go deep into accessibility this time around. We scratched the surface [with the first game] so it was like, be better. So it wasn't like ‘oh, we'll take a couple of times to get up to Naughty Dog's level'. No, we're just going to go match them one-for-one, right now, with this game. We're part of the first-party studio system – we have to lead the way.”

Williams then shared an anecdote from the first game, explaining why they had to do better this time round with regards to accessibility, saying “There's this story from God of War that broke my heart. It's the first time ever I kind of experienced it. This kid wrote us a letter – a handwritten letter. He loved the game. First page [of the letter] was just glowing, and then he gets to the part where he says he was stuck in the desert for like four hours. And I'm thinking in my head, like, what happened? But, he was deaf… and it's an audio puzzle. It crushed me, and I was like we cannot do this ever again.”

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