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# Another audio-only game comes to challenge your perceptions
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/three-monkeys-sounds-fascinating/
- Published: 2015-02-12T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:16:04.000Z
- Description: Three Monkeys is an audio-only game that empowers its blind protagonist and players.
- Author: Daniel Fries
- Tags: News, Audio, Kickstarter, RPG, Sound design, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

A few years ago, a blind man named Terry Garrett [made the news](http://www.oddworld.com/2011/02/introducing-terry-garrett-a-man-possessing-a-gaming-achievement-better-than-yours/?ref=killscreen.com) for beating *Abe’s Odysee* using only the game’s sound. Not many games have audio cues for every action, and, in fact, the developers of the game were surprised when they found out about the story; they hadn’t been thinking of blind players when they designed the game’s audio.

Three Monkeys is a game about being blind. It’s also a game about sound, which puts it in league with Stephen Lavelle’s *Universal History of Light* and *Devil’s Tuning Fork*, from the DePaul Game Elites. But it’s unlike these, too, in that *Three Monkeys* is a game with no visuals. Everything in the game is navigable through audio cues alone. It’s a fantasy RPG with combat, puzzle-solving, and open-world exploration—but the only feedback the player receives is in the form of audio.

his blindness is a source of power

The studio behind *Three Monkeys*, Incus Games, explained that they want to distance themselves from other “audio-based” game releases. Most other games with such a strong focus on sound design are horror games—the player’s lack of vision makes her vulnerable. In Three Monkeys, the protagonist is blind inside the narrative of the game. His home world has been cursed by a darkness that drives sighted people insane, but he isn’t affected by the darkness, and therefore his blindness is a source of power: he was born blind so that he can save the world.

[Three Monkeys *is on Kickstarter now.*](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1950090942/three-monkeys-part-1-into-the-abyss?ref=killscreen.com)

*Header image via [Matthew McVickar](https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewmcvickar/?ref=killscreen.com)*