Accessibility

[TankPunk]

Can I play this game with just a mouse and no keyboard? Also is there much replay value? Thank you.

[Nimkip]

Yes

[Gu]

a) yes. Although there might be reactional speed disadvantage, there is no problem playing with mouse.
b) also yes. It is very fun (at least for me) to find all the creatures and see their stories while seeing the hidden ending while doing multiple re-runs.

[TankPunk]

Thank you very much! Would the pause feature take away speed disadvantage?

[CarThief]

It does seem doable with the mouse alone but the lack of key binding won't let you rebind pause to a mouse button or anything, so that is mildly troublesome (Edit: Wonder if there's a 3rd party rebinding program for that?). There will indeed be a reaction speed disadvantadge if you are unable to have one finger or something on the pause button, but if you are able to press spacebar and operate the mouse you'll be fine for most part.

Minor spoilers though, but some parts of the game may disable your pause function and set you to the lowest speed. Those may be alot more troublesome then normal without two fully functional hands, troublesome, but probably doable if you are persistent enough.

So, due to lack of rebinding you'll have to hold RMB (MMB might work too?) to move the camera, but all UI elements are clickable, even the pause function, it just takes longer then using their keyboard shortcuts.

And i'd say there's a fair share of replay value, yeah. Especially due to it's roguelite style gameplay, where you can either continue your current "run" or restart from day 1 if you've worked yourself into a corner (or see if the last saved checkpoint puts you back far enough to undo a bad situation/mistake). Don't worry though, you retain equipment, mission progress, research, unlocks, etc when you restart to day 1 or rewind to a previous checkpoint.

You'd probably have to do atleast two full runs to see all the abnormalities, meet requirements for certain missions, and to get to certain boss battles, and such. I'd imagine it keeps the average player busy for atleast 30-40 hours, if not far, far more when trying to complete everything.

[Nimkip]

Originally posted by TankPunk:

Thank you very much! Would the pause feature take away speed disadvantage?

That's the point. You can pause and unpause by clicking the button in the lower left corner.
But that's simply slower than just pressing space.

It won´t make a difference. Well most of the time.

[TankPunk]

Originally posted by CarThief:

It does seem doable with the mouse alone but the lack of key binding won't let you rebind pause to a mouse button or anything, so that is mildly troublesome (Edit: Wonder if there's a 3rd party rebinding program for that?). There will indeed be a reaction speed disadvantadge if you are unable to have one finger or something on the pause button, but if you are able to press spacebar and operate the mouse you'll be fine for most part.

Minor spoilers though, but some parts of the game may disable your pause function and set you to the lowest speed. Those may be alot more troublesome then normal without two fully functional hands, troublesome, but probably doable if you are persistent enough.

So, due to lack of rebinding you'll have to hold RMB (MMB might work too?) to move the camera, but all UI elements are clickable, even the pause function, it just takes longer then using their keyboard shortcuts.

And i'd say there's a fair share of replay value, yeah. Especially due to it's roguelite style gameplay, where you can either continue your current "run" or restart from day 1 if you've worked yourself into a corner (or see if the last saved checkpoint puts you back far enough to undo a bad situation/mistake). Don't worry though, you retain equipment, mission progress, research, unlocks, etc when you restart to day 1 or rewind to a previous checkpoint.

You'd probably have to do atleast two full runs to see all the abnormalities, meet requirements for certain missions, and to get to certain boss battles, and such. I'd imagine it keeps the average player busy for atleast 30-40 hours, if not far, far more when trying to complete everything.

Thanks for all the great info! I do actually have a program I bought on steam called VoiceAttack that allows me to issue commands via voice. Soo that may work. Thanks again!

[CarThief]

Huh, that's pretty neat, that's one way to get around that issue. My thought was that there's bound to be a program somewhere that lets you rebind anything to anything else (like telling it to translate your MMB mouse input to be Spacebar/Pause instead, or something similar).

Well, if it helps, besides there's also Q and E as the shortcut functions for slowing down or speeding up time respectively (once you unlock that research by doing missions for the Control Team), and the number keys 1 to 8 or so eventually gain a purpose, too.

Edit: And now i'm remembering the good ol' AVGN (Angry Video Game Nerd) using a voice headset for some NES game... "Fire! Fire! Fire! ♥♥♥♥! [and other foul words] You can say anything and it'll work!" Oh how technology has grown... :P

[TankPunk]

Thanks again for the info. Indeed games and technology have come a long way since I started in the 80's on both console and pc. AVGN is amazing!