Access-Ability Showcase 2026: Life Below

Developed by Megapop and published by Kasedo Games, Life Below is a new city-building title where players work underneath the waves to help restore coral reefs and collapsing ecosystems. The game released recently, on the 26th of May, and it even launched alongside a charity DLC in collaboration with WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation!

The game was featured in this year's Access-Ability Showcase, where we got to see what the team added to the game to make it accessible to as many players as possible. Here's what they covered:

• Various difficulty modes.
• Time controls.
• Settings to pause the game during critical moments or when the game is unfocused.
• Various informative tooltips.
• UI settings, such as transparency, scale, and motion.
• Camera and scroll sensitivity.
• Compatible with anything that the PC recognises as a controller.
• Can be played with just a mouse.
• Can be played with eye-tracking technologies.
• The ability to rebind with most actions.
• Motion-sickness settings.
• Input cooldown and stamp-style multi-selection.
• No quick-time effects or rapid button-pressing.

Whilst the team has put an emphasis on accessibility, there were some features that they couldn't figure out how to add: text-to-speech and high-contrast UI. The game can also only be set to stereo mode, and players cannot change the difficulty mode in the middle of the game.

Life Below is available now on Steam.