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Violence
Horror
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 28/04/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 28/04/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features strong violence towards fantasy characters and strong gory images. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Action adventure in which players fight against a range of monsters as they battle to defeat the Lord of Ire in a grim world of pain and suffering.

Content specific issues

This game includes strong bloody violence throughout. The player's human character fights against a variety of fantasy characters using magical and medieval-style weaponry. Impacts to enemies result in splashes of blood. When defeated, some enemies break apart into identifiable body parts. When the player's character is hit, there is sight of blood and the player's life meter reduces. When defeated, the message 'Rise Anew' appears and the player's character simply restarts. The game also features multiple background scenes depicting human-like and animal-like characters that have been flayed or butchered. There is gory detail, although the violence that led to this is not shown.

Other issues

The game also includes some use of bad language, including 'bastard' and 'ass'.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 31/08/2023

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Action platform game, set in a dystopian future, in which players take on the role of a soldier turned cyborg on a mission to defeat and evil alien race called the Dread Corpse.

Content specific issues

This game features brief cutscenes after boss-fights which feature realistic-looking violence towards fantasy characters. Bosses can be shot through their heads and their heads can be sliced off, albeit with minimal blood effects. Violence during gameplay is milder, with enemies flashing when hit and disappearing when defeated, without clear injury detail.

Violence
In-Game Purchases
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 5 - 19/04/2023
  • PC - 31/03/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

DLC for the action role-playing game, Horizon Forbidden West, which continues the story from the base game as Aloy pursues a sinister threat in the untamed wilds of Los Angeles, which is now a treacherous volcanic archipelago.

Content specific issues

This game contains depictions of strong and realistic violence towards human characters. Enemies recoil from blows and blood effects appear on impact. Corpses are left on the ground in the aftermath of violence. There is also realistic-looking violence towards fantasy characters.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to connect to their storefront, where they can purchase subsequent DLC expansions, 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. The game also contains use of bad language, such as 'shit'.

Violence
In-Game Purchases
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 18/02/2022
  • PlayStation 5 - 18/02/2022
  • PC - 31/03/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Action role-playing game in which players take on the role of Aloy as she explores the Forbidden West, fighting with and against new tribes in an attempt to save mankind in the post-apocalyptic world of Horizon.

Content specific issues

Violence is similar in style to that found in 'Zero Dawn', with Aloy and her companions fighting both mechanical dinosaur-like creatures and enemy tribes. Blood is shown but no graphic injuries. Cinematic scenes feature more realistic violence than the violence found in general gameplay, including tribes shooting each other using bows and arrows and scenes of execution at spearpoint.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to connect to their storefront, where they can purchase subsequent DLC expansions, 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. The game also includes some bad language, including 'bastard', 'shit', 'dick', 'goddamn' and 'screw'.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 15/10/2020
  • Nintendo Switch - 15/10/2020

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Arcade-style horror role playing game in which the player must fight their way across a hostile world in order to free it.

Content specific issues

Violence in gameplay is very bloody, often with exaggerated blood splatters. Strikes with swords result in limbs being severed. Blood remains visible on surfaces after characters have disappeared. However, the violence is not presented in a realistic manner and reactions to violence are also unrealistic. When the player's character is struck, a brief sound is made but the character continues to fight without any apparent injury. When the character is mortally wounded, there is a small amount of blood splatter than the character sinks to the floor.

Other issues

There is infrequent use of bad language ('piss').

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 01/03/2020

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries is a 2D platformer consisting of mind intriguing psychology based level design, unique boss fights accompanied by groovy and mystifying music. Plan ahead your every move and outsmart the traps that are lurking in the temple or get dissected in different ways!

Content specific issues

The violence depicted is very cartoon like but gets bloodier as the game progresses, when the player’s character impacts a trap there is a squelch noise and blood splatter, in the case of spikes they can be seen to emerge from the characters body, the axe and circular blade will impale the character and the axe will continue to swing with the character attached and the blade will roll around with the character impaled upon one of the large narrow teeth.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 01/03/2020

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features contains violence against humans that is not shown but is implied. Not suitable for persons under 7 of age.

Brief outline of the game

Worbital is space war in real-time with tension-filled gameplay and gravitational destruction. Each player commandeers a planet, building support structures and increasingly powerful weapons. Use your weaponry to destroy enemy planets and wreak total havoc to the solar system. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

Content specific issues

The goal is to eliminate all players. When a planet is hit, the installations are first to go. When the health bar of said installation is gone, it explodes. If the planet itself hit by a weapon, the surface is removed bit by bit. This continues until the core of the planet is exposed. The core needs to be hit for a certain amount of times/a certain amount of damage. If damaged enough, the planet will explode. This explosion is, like the graphics, over the top 2d with lots of bright colours. No inhabitants are seen, no screams are heard and there is no zoom-in (either visual or textual) that the entire population is gone.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 31/01/2019
  • Xbox One - 30/04/2019
  • PlayStation 4 - 30/04/2019
  • Nintendo Switch - 30/04/2019

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features contains violence against humans that is not shown but is implied. Not suitable for persons below 7 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Worbital is space war in real-time with tension-filled gameplay and gravitational destruction. Each player commandeers a planet, building support structures and increasingly powerful weapons. Use your weaponry to destroy enemy planets and wreak total havoc to the solar system. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

Content specific issues

The goal is to eliminate all players. When a planet is hit, the installations are first to go. When the health bar of said installation is gone, it explodes. If the planet itself hit by a weapon, the surface is removed bit by bit. This continues until the core of the planet is exposed. The core needs to be hit for a certain amount of times/a certain amount of damage. If damaged enough, the planet will explode. This explosion is, like the graphics, over the top 2d with lots of bright colours. No inhabitants are seen, no screams are heard and there is no zoom-in (either visual or textual) that the entire population is gone.

Violence
Fear
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 31/05/2017

Advice for consumers

This game was rated PEGI 7 for pictures or sounds likely to be scary to young children, and non-realistic violence towards fantasy characters. It is not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

A strange phone call brings you on the trail of your long-lost sister. She’s involved with the mysterious Oracles of Doom, and you have to save her!

Content specific issues

The game features some jump scares, threatening masked men and a tense atmosphere. There is also a scene where players need to violently blow up a robot turret.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Xbox One - 26/01/2016

Advice for consumers

This game was rated PEGI 16 for frequent scenes of moderate violence in an arcade setting. It is not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Reagan and Gorbachev have been kidnapped and must work together to escape the facility where they are being held. Kill their enemies, find the keys, hack the computers and escape before it’s too late.

Content specific issues

Violence is typical of top down view, arcade style games. Pixelated Reagan and Gorbachev hack, slash and shoot at enemy characters who immediately fall to the ground, often in a puddle of blood, where they remain for the duration of the level.