I also have trouble understanding how to actually play, but spend some time exploring the UI.

I like playing maging-type of games, so the cryosleep sounds interesting. would love to try again if there is a post jam update.

Interesting idea.

I couldn't figure out how to play it. The voice speaks too slowly and it is unclear where the message about the general situation is and where the description of the buttons is. I would advise you to add support for a screen reader, for example NVDA, to voice the interface buttons. Then there will be two streams of voice information.

wow, a pretty ambitious project for a game jam for blind gamers. I think the game itself might be pretty cool to explore, but even with visuals I was not sure what to do. I think the idea is to allocate your crew according to the challenges, but my crew died pretty fast.
Its a bit unfortunate that the voice over can't keep up with what is happening, and skipping did not work for me, I think.
I want to point out that this is a pretty cool idea, and with some ui/voice over adjustments and maybe balancing, this could be a great game. My advice would be to try to simplify the ui (if possible), which might also help with the voice overs. Maybe you could have a separate statistics and an assignment panel, both without different tabs?
Hope we can see some progress on this after the jam ends :)

I wanted to love this game, I really did. It is exactly my thing! But I simply cannot get this to work properly.

The menus are frustrating. Why does getting to the next or previous option always require at least two arrow key presses, frequently more? Tab works better … when it works at all, that is. Regardless of the options, menus seem to freeze, options sometimes don’t select properly, and just generally I never know where I am and whether I’ve changed anything. I am not against using a mouse to play games if that is done accessibly, so I will test with one later to see if it works any better – I misplaced the batteries somewhere – but if that is the intended way for this game to be played, it really should be mentioned somewhere.

The rate at which events happen is far too fast. I am constantly being hit by this disaster or other, and there is at once too much happening and not nearly enough information. Pausing should help in theory, but is it just me, or do the menus suddenly become even less reliable when the game is paused? Even if that was not the case though, a way to set different rates would help a lot.

Given the large volume of speech, it is great that there is a mute option, although if possible, control would be a more natural choice for that than t. But unless I am missing something, once the speech is skipped, that’s it. There is no way to go back through the history and quickly check which events have taken place. Not that I’d even have the time to do that as it is, granted.

So, here’s an honest question for the developer: how much time have you spent actually play-testing your game without looking at it? It is clear you have put in a lot of effort, but was closing your eyes or covering them with a blindfold a part of that at all? Not that doing so would be the best way to check if the game is accessible – presumably you’re sighted, so if anything, you might have trouble with things that would be very easy for us. But in this case, it would’ve been an easy way to spot the obvious issues.

If you decide to continue developing this game, I encourage you to do some research into how other developers have handled large amounts of information in similar kinds of strategy games. I especially recommend checking out the games from Aprone, chiefly Castaways, whose speed settings, message buffers, settings for disabling notifications of kinds of events, shortcuts to check various stats, sound effects, etc. might be good strategies to copy. But really, you should just play all of them, because they’re very good games! And I’m confident yours could be too, once you make it playable.

Theme is really great - it wasn't super obvious what to do / how to awaken people. Some kind of tutorial or explanation would have been awesome. Reading or making more obvious how many people were at each section also would have been nice!

I really like the concept and most of the mechanics (I feel the FTL vibes :)), I see the immense effort in this game, but it is a bit hard to keep up with the events even with visuals and using a mouse (the list on the Cryo screen does not match the order in main screen, and it also covers the tabs, this threw me off several times). But I have finished with 139 crew remaining. I have increased the TTS speed to 2.1x but it is still reading out the stats of my actions from 6-7 minutes ago, unfortunately I'm not sure how playable would it be without seeing the screen.

Hi! Thanks for your game! I like the setting & the interface is quite clear!

If you want some feedback:

I took me a while to figure out how to associate people to tasks, also I didn't get the consequences of events (storm, comet.). After I understood the gameplay more, I wondered if there were a better approach than simply put the maximum people into each job ?

To improve accessibility, I think that the TTS voice should immediately read what you choose. Because without vision, there's no way to know what menu you currently selected.