Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
NACON-
PlayStation 4 - 19/05/2022
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PlayStation 5 - 19/05/2022
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Xbox One - 19/05/2022
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Xbox Series X|S - 19/05/2022
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PC - 19/05/2022
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Nintendo Switch - 28/09/2023
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for persons under 18 years of age. This rating has been given because it features graphic violence, including violence against vulnerable and defenceless characters, and use of strong language.
Brief outline of the game
Role-playing video game in which players control three vampires from different clans in Boston.
Content specific issues
This game features scenes of graphic violence, including a sequence in which a restrained character is tortured for information using a variety of implements and another sequence in which a character who is trapped in a room is burned alive. Other violence is less graphic but still realistic, including necks being snapped, heads being smashed into hard surfaces, and gunshots. At one point, the player's character approaches a restrained zombie whose arms and legs have already been removed and decapitates them using an axe, although the actual decapitation is not shown. The game also includes use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms including 'whore', 'bitch' and 'piss'.
Other issues
In one sequence, a female vampire turns another woman into a vampire. In addition to the expected biting and blood-drinking, there is a suggestion of oral sex between the two women, with accompanying sounds of moaning, although there is no clear sight of genitalia.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt
Sharkmob-
PC - 31/12/2022
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PlayStation 5 - 31/12/2022
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given because it features graphic violence and use of strong language. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Battle Royale horror game, set in the Old Town of Prague, in which players fight to be the last vampire standing.
Content specific issues
Gameplay features strong and realistic-looking violence, involving the use of firearms, bladed weapons and hand-to-hand combat. Violence can result in blood sprays, the quantity of which depends upon the weapon being used. Enemy characters disintegrate, leaving behind items that can be collected. When the player's character is damaged, they fall to the floor and either regenerate or are revived by team members in multi-player mode. Cutscenes involve more graphic violence, including a vampire attacking a male character, resulting in blood splatter and crunching noises as the vampire feeds. When the vampire notices a cross on the victim's neck, she rips the flesh and muscle from his neck, causing pain, injury and blood loss. The game also includes use of strong language ('fuck').
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of a battle pass containing vanity items which are available for direct purchase in exchange for virtual currency. You can buy the virtual currency with real money, 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.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York
Funstock Distribution Ltd-
Nintendo Switch - 29/09/2023
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PlayStation 4 - 29/09/2023
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features use of strong language. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Visual novel game in which players take on the roles of three vampire characters in New York City.
Content specific issues
This game includes use of strong language ('cunt', motherfucker', 'fuck'), as well as milder bad language including 'bitch', 'dick', 'piss', 'shit', 'screw', 'bastard', 'asshole' and 'goddamn'.
Other issues
The game also includes multiple references to violence, although violence is not depicted. There are still images of characters holding cigarettes, as well as references to drug use (ketamine and MDMA). There are no depictions of drug use.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Funstock Distribution Ltd-
Nintendo Switch - 29/09/2023
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PlayStation 4 - 29/09/2023
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features use of strong language. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Adventure game, in visual novel style, depicting the struggle for power between two factions of vampires.
Content specific issues
This game features frequent strong language ('cunt', 'motherfucker', 'fuck'), as well as use of milder bad language, including 'whore', 'prick', 'shit', 'piss', 'asshole' and 'goddamn'.
Other issues
There are detailed descriptions of violence throughout the game, although violent acts are not shown. Some scenes include images of the aftermath of violence, such as sight of severed limbs, blood and bite marks. There are references to sexual activities, although there is no graphic depiction of sex. There are also references to alcohol and smoking, including sight of characters with pipes and cigars in their mouths.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Draw Distance S.A.-
PlayStation 4 - 17/03/2020
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features use of strong language. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.
Content specific issues
The game includes frequent use of sexual expletives, mild swearing and offensive language throughout the game, including the words ‘cunt’, ‘fuck/er/in/ing’, ‘motherfucker’, ‘assholes’, ‘bull/horse/shit’, ‘douchebags’, ‘goddamnit’, ‘pissed’, ‘prick/s’, ‘shit/er/ting’ and ‘whore’.
Other issues
Drinking and smoking are mentioned several times throughout the stories, but, while some characters are depicted holding lit cigars or with an unlit pipe to their lips, there is no animation of the acts taking place. Sex is mentioned often, either in the form of how a vampire chooses to ‘embrace’ their victim, or in the players mistaken belief that one of the vampires is a sex-cam worker. However, there are no graphic descriptions of sexual acts, nor are there any sexual images. Violence is described throughout the game, sometimes in detail, but the acts themselves are never shown. Some scenes include images that show the aftermath of a violent act, for example simple bite marks on flesh, others being the more horrific such as a pair of dismembered legs and a bloodied sword.
Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars
Kalypso Media GmbH-
PC - 27/03/2020
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PlayStation 4 - 27/03/2020
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Xbox One - 27/03/2020
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Nintendo Switch - 27/03/2020
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features sustained depictions of violence towards human characters and strong violence. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars is a strategy game set in a dark vampire world in turmoil, that combines empire management and turn-based combat with unique card-game elements.
Content specific issues
Gameplay violence is non-realistic looking but is however regarded as sustained depictions of violence, when characters are hit their response is minimal, but there are occasional blood splatters. When their health gauge expires, they will shimmer and fall to the ground. Some characters remain in view whilst others disappear. Realistic looking violence occurs in some of the cut scenes, and although there are blood splatters when a character is hit, there are no injuries of blood effects on the body.
Vampire Legends: Kisilovas wahre Geschichte
Astragon Entertainment GmbH-
PC - 12/02/2013
Advice for consumers
Contains infrequent mild violence.
Brief outline of the game
You and your partner are sent by the Imperial Court in Vienna to investigate a mysterious series of strange deaths in the distant town of Kisilovas.
Content specific issues
A vampire is killed by a stake through the heart and is then engulfed by flames. All reactions are unrealistic.
Vampire Crystals -Rebirth-
Shanblue Interactive S.L.-
Nintendo 3DS - 01/07/2013
Advice for consumers
Game contains frequent, mild violence.
Brief outline of the game
Player is required to collect crystals whilst fighting hordes of zombie characters.
Content specific issues
The game features the use of a projectile firing weapon which when used against the zombie characters causes them to fall to pieces and then disappear from view.
Bloody Vampire
Agetec Europe Ltd-
Nintendo 3DS - 28/02/2013
Vampire Saga Break Out The Deluxe Edition
Focus Multimedia Limited-
PC - 12/10/2012
Advice for consumers
Contains mild violence and mild swearing
Brief outline of the game
Compilation of a hidden object mystery game and two management games with creepy theme.
Content specific issues
Unrealistic violence towards human-like characters and mild swearing.