R.E.P.O. Accessibility Options: What the Game Does and Does Not Offer

No. R.E.P.O. has no subtitles or closed captions. Its Steam store listing specifies English interface and full audio, with no subtitle entry. That covers both narrative audio and the proximity voice chat your teammates use, so a deaf or hard-of-hearing player gets no text channel for either. The in-game text chat on T exists, but it stops your movement while you type, so squads generally use it for planning between levels rather than during a run.

There is no colourblind preset. The good news is that R.E.P.O. rarely encodes critical information in colour alone — health and stamina are bars whose length and position carry the meaning, and valuables are identified by shape and by the value readout when you look at them. If contrast rather than hue is your issue, raising Gamma and Light Distance in the Graphics tab helps more than any filter would.

Start inside the game: switch off Motion Blur, Lens Distortion, Chromatic Aberration and Grain in Settings › Graphics, and cap Max FPS to a number your PC can hold steadily. The base game has no FOV slider, which is the usual first fix, so if the default view still feels too narrow install the client-side FovUpdate mod from Thunderstore. Also rebind the tumble key away from Q if accidental ragdolls are what sets you off — the spinning camera during a tumble is the most aggressive camera motion in the game.

Yes. Open the pause menu with Escape, go to Settings › Controls, click any binding and press the key or button you want. Movement, jump, sprint, crouch, tumble, grab, rotate, interact, map, chat and push-to-talk are all remappable. Sprint and crouch additionally support toggle instead of hold, which matters if sustained key presses are painful. Our full controls reference lists every default binding if you want to plan a layout before you change anything.

Yes, through Steam Input rather than through the game. R.E.P.O. has no native controller support, so Steam translates your device into keyboard and mouse input. In practice that is an advantage for accessibility: Steam Input handles adaptive controllers, lets you set activators and long-presses, and supports community-shared layouts. The Xbox Adaptive Controller and most third-party devices that present as a gamepad work this way, and the same path is what makes the game playable on Steam Deck.

It is difficult but not impossible. The problem is that carrying a valuable needs a held mouse button while you also move, rotate and manage distance with the scroll wheel. A one-handed layout generally means mapping movement to the mouse side buttons or a Steam Input gyro setup, and switching sprint and crouch to toggle so no key needs holding. Expect to be the scout rather than the carrier in a co-op squad — that role split is how most mixed-ability groups handle it.

Only in single-player. Escape opens the menu, but in a multiplayer lobby the world keeps running and your character stays vulnerable where you left them. If you need unpredictable breaks, play solo, or tell your squad up front so someone can shepherd your character to a cleared room before you step away. Between levels, in the truck, is the safe window.

Client-side visual mods such as FovUpdate and settings unlockers only change what you see, so they do not require the host or other players to install anything. Mods that alter gameplay rules do need everyone to match. Since mods are not officially supported either way, the safe approach is to use them in private lobbies with friends and mention what you are running, which also avoids a host kicking you for an unexpected version mismatch.