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Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Xbox Series X|S - 31/05/2023
  • PlayStation 5 - 31/05/2023
  • PC - 31/05/2023

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features strong and sustained depictions of violence. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Action-adventure game in which players take on the role of a rogue adventurer exploring a war-torn land with your wolf companion.

Content specific issues

This game contains strong and realistic violence towards human characters. Characters react realistically when struck, recoiling with blood splatters. Bodies remain on the floor when characters are defeated and may be looted and attacked, with further blood effects. Dead bodies are seen, some impaled on weapons and spikes, with large amounts of blood.

Other issues

There is use of bad language, including 'shit'.

Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 31/03/2023
  • PlayStation 4 - 31/03/2023
  • PlayStation 5 - 31/03/2023
  • Xbox Series X|S - 31/03/2023
  • Xbox One - 31/03/2023

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Side-scrolling platform game, set in a futuristic sci-fi world featuring humans, robots, cyborgs and mutants. Players fight against the corrupt military of Esperanza as part of the resistance force of the Undercity.

Content specific issues

There is use of bad language, including 'shit', 'piss' and 'bastard'.

Other issues

The game also features mild and unrealistic arcade-style violence involving pixelated characters. Characters flash when hit with damage shown using numbers. Defeated enemies disappear, leaving behind red gems to collect. When the player's character is defeated, he slumps to the ground and fades to black. Some characters are seen with cigarettes, although the player's character cannot smoke.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 05/05/2022

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Arcade-style beat-'em-up featuring one-on-one martial arts fighting with weapons.

Content specific issues

This game features unrealistic fighting involving the use of weapons. Flashes of light appear when characters are hit and their reactions to violence are unrealistic. There is limited and unrealistic sight of blood splatters.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 02/09/2022
  • PlayStation 4 - 02/09/2022
  • PlayStation 5 - 02/09/2022
  • Xbox One - 02/09/2022
  • Xbox Series X|S - 02/09/2022

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features strong violence and sustained depictions of violence. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Role-playing strategy game, set in the fictional world of Calradia. The game takes place 200 years before Mount and Blade: Warband and shows the formation of the factions that appear in the previous game. Players build up a party of soldiers and perform questions as they seek to conquer Calradia.

Content specific issues

This game features strong and sustained violence, involving the use of a variety of weapons such as axes, swords, crossbows and lances. Violence is realistic looking and blood effects may occur during combat. When killed, bodies remain visible on the ground.

Violence
Bad Language
In-Game Purchases
Horror
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 29/07/2022

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence, scenes of moderate horror, and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Sci-fi role-playing game, set on a planet inhabited by two warring factions, in which players take on the roles of groups of soldiers from both sides.

Content specific issues

This game features non-realistic moderate violence involving human and fantasy characters. When human characters are hit, they flash and their health gauges reduce. When defeated, they stagger, fall down and remain on the ground for a short time before dissolving and disappearing. Some cutscenes also feature violence although the camera cuts away at crucial moments, disguising the violence. There is a scene in which a character removes his own eye. While the extraction is not shown, the bloody eye socket is seen. The game also includes use of bad language, including 'bastard', 'bitch', 'shit', 'piss' and 'bloody'.

Other issues

There is a scene in which male and female characters bathe. However, steam covers their bodies and nothing sexual occurs. This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of an expansion pass, which some parents or carers may want to be aware of. Parents, carers or other responsible adults should check to see what is being offered before making any purchase on behalf of a child. It should be noted that the game can still be played without the need to purchase such items.

Violence
In-Game Purchases
In-game purchases (includes random items)
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 12/08/2021

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Multi-player 'Battle Royale' action game, built around parkour, in which players search for loot while battling other characters.

Content specific issues

This game features moderate violence. Characters respond to blows in an exaggerated manner, being thrown long distances. There are occasional blood effects. Once a character's health is depleted, they fall to the ground and disintegrate into glowing embers. If part of a team, players can be revived. The main characters have the ability to transform into large fantasy creatures, although the levels of violence involving these fantasy creatures are similar.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of a seasonal battle pass and cosmetics chests that randomly give players characters skins, weapons skins, emotes and banners, etc. Some parents or carers may want to be aware of this. Parents, carers, or other responsible adults should check to see what is being offered before making any purchase on behalf of a child. It should be noted that the game can still be played without the need to purchase such items.

Violence
Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 21/01/2021
  • PlayStation 4 - 21/01/2021
  • Xbox One - 21/01/2021

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features depictions of non-realistic looking violence to humans, and use of mild bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Bladed Fury is a 2D RPG platformer with action and puzzle elements. You play as Ji as she goes on a search for justice. During her journey, she encounters ancient deities and unlocks new weapons and abilities. Ji must fight her enemies and solve puzzles to progress.

Content specific issues

This game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic looking violence towards human-like characters. Bright lights and magical effects appear when impacts occur. Characters occasionally let out pained cries. When enemies are defeated, their bodies fall to the floor and quickly disappear. A variety of weapons are used throughout the game. Regardless of the type of weapon used, the reaction to the violence remains the same. This game also contains infrequent use of mild bad language (eg 'bastard').

Violence
Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 29/05/2020

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence, realistic violence of a minor nature towards human characters and use of offensive language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

MONOLITHSOFT’s epic Xenoblade Chronicles game, which originally launched in 2012 on the Wii system, is reborn on Nintendo Switch as Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

Content specific issues

The violence depicted is colourful and resplendent with lots of flashing lights which tends to mask a lot of the action, but characters do display damage points and a health gauge which decreases with each hit. Once a human character’s health reaches zero it will fall to the ground and remain in view. The use of damage points and a health gauge is the same for fantasy characters, except that they disappear when they die. The dialogue contains an instance of the use of the word ‘bastard’.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 27/03/2020

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features frequent scenes of bloody violence in an arcade setting and strong violence to fantasy characters. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Side scrolling hack and slash in which the player’s character is a knight who is on a mission to save a princess.

Content specific issues

This game contains frequent depictions of arcade style violence containing strong blood and gore effects. Enemies are a mixture of non-detailed human and fantasy characters and are armed with a different types of bladed weapons and magic attacks. All attacks cause large amounts of blood to appear on impact of hits. When an enemy is defeated, they explode into various bloody body parts which litter the floor for a short amount of time before disappearing. When the right conditions are prevalent an execution finisher move can be initiated and is seen as a sword thrust up through the throat of a fantasy character followed by a beheading.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 06/09/2019
  • Nintendo Switch - 06/09/2019

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 of age.

Brief outline of the game

Harness the AeternoBlade – and defy the abyss in this sequel to the fast-paced action/puzzle platformer. In AeternoBlade II, use the power of time itself to outwit your enemies and explore mysterious new dimensions. Jump between frenetic combat encounters and intriguing puzzle segments that require ingenious use of time.

Content specific issues

Violence consists of non-realistic battles with flashes of light and minimal responses to being hit. All enemies disappear when killed. No blood or injuries are shown.