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Violence
Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Xbox Series X|S - 06/02/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 06/02/2024

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, violence against vulnerable and defenceless characters, sexual threat, and use of strong and discriminatory language.

Brief outline of the game

Comic first-person shooter game, in which an alien cartel invades Earth with the intention of turning humans into recreational drugs. Players take on the role of a human who teams up with an alien to counter the threat, including by rescuing and using living alien weapons.

Content specific issues

This game features the ability to view five horror feature films in full. These films include scenes of graphic violence, including sight of decapitation and dismemberment, and violence against vulnerable and defenceless people, including restrained people’s throats being cut. There are also scenes of sexual threat, including a man undressing a sleeping woman and climbing on top of her. The game itself features scenes of graphic violence towards fantasy characters, including sight of aliens being stabbed and shot, the latter of which may result in decapitation. There is also a sequence in which an alien is encountered that has been bisected but which is still alive, with visible entrails coming from its torso. There is additional gory detail when human corpses are seen, both in the game and in the feature films. Because of the first-person nature of the game, violence against the player’s human character is only implied. Both the game itself and the feature films include use of strong language (‘fuck’, ‘cocksucking’), as well as milder terms. The feature films also include some use of discriminatory terms (‘faggot’, ‘homo’).

Other issues

The game also includes sight of drug misuse, such as a powder being snorted, and both the game and the films include visual and verbal sex references. The feature films include scenes of sexual activity, sometimes with breast and buttock nudity, as well as other sexualised nudity. One of the feature films features a scene of suicide, while others feature visual and verbal references to suicide.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 27/02/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Remake of the 2013 adventure game in which players guide two brothers on an epic journey to find the water of life to heal their sick and dying father.

Content specific issues

This game contains depictions of strong and realistic violence involving human characters. One scene in particular shows the player's character encountering a man with a noose around his neck, with the noose attached to a tree. The man jumps from a chair, causing him to struggle and choke. If the player does not help the man, he is shown continuing to choke until he dies and can then be seen hanging from the tree briefly before the screen fades. The game also contains examples of graphic violence towards fantasy characters. One section features a puzzle which requires the player's character to push the arm of a dead giant who is holding an axe. The axe eventually falls and chops off the leg of another giant's corpse.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 22/03/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to fantasy or mythical beings and creatures, and non-realistic violence in a child-friendly setting or context. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Action platform adventure in which an evil sorceress takes over a theatre and Princess Peach has to enter a number of different plays to free their imprisoned stars, taking on a variety of roles in order to do so.

Content specific issues

This game features mild violence, which is either directed at Princess Peach, who is a cartoon-like human, or at her fantastical enemies, many of which are puppet-like in terms of design with loose wooden parts. The violence itself is cartoon-like in nature and results in unrealistic reactions: enemies flash when hit, disappear in puffs of smoke when defeated, and do not display any visible harm or hurt. Peach also flashes when hit and sags to her knees when defeated, after which the screen turns black. She does not display any visible harm.

Violence
Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 29/02/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Side-scrolling platform adventure game in which players take on the role of the mysterious wanderer, Haak, as he embarks on an epic expedition across a vast cyber wasteland, populated with robotic and human-like enemies, in search of his lost brother.

Content specific issues

This game features moderate violence during encounters with human-like boss characters. Successful hits result in a pain noise and an exaggerated physical response with the damage shown as a number value. Once a character is defeated, it disappears off screen. There is also infrequent use of mild bad language including 'shit, 'bastard' and 'bloody'.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 5 - 23/02/2024

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

VR action-adventure shooter in which players control an employee of the OOO Corporation who must complete an intergalactic mission, accompanied by a crewmate, while defending yourself from aliens and a hostile corporation.

Content specific issues

This game features non-realistic violence towards human characters using fantastical weapons. When hit, these characters make grunting noises and then evaporate into purple particles. When alien characters are hit, they explode and disappear, leaving behind only a trace of green blood-like stains.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 31/01/2024

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.

Brief outline of the game

DLC for the tactical strategy game set in ancient Egypt, which adds new kill moves and gory effects.

Content specific issues

This DLC features graphic violence including decapitations and dismemberment. Heavy blood effects appear during violence and there is sight of injuries and severed body parts after violence.

Other issues

The base game also includes use of bad language.

Drugs
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 26/01/2024
  • PlayStation 4 - 26/01/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 26/01/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features prominent use of tobacco. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Point-and-click adventure game, set in rural Indonesia in the late 1990s, in which a high school boy develops a relationship with a girl with supernatural powers.

Content specific issues

Part of the gameplay involves a high school student obtaining tobacco products for another student, in order to trade for an item to progress the storyline. Once traded, the other student is then depicted smoking. Later scenes also shown other students and adults smoking.

Other issues

The plot touches on a range of sensitive issues, including depression, anxiety, bullying, domestic abuse and attempted suicide. However, the focus in on overcoming these issues. Violence is generally only implied, with characters taking up fighting postures and making gestures towards each other without making clear physical contact. Any implied contact is covered by flash effects. There is a reference to a cat being accidentally run over, although this is not shown. The cat's body can be seen lying on the road after the event. Dialogue includes use of bad language, including 'prick', 'bitch', 'shit', 'bastard', 'screw' and 'ass'. There are references to alcohol.

Violence
Gambling
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 5 - 22/03/2024

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, violence against vulnerable and defenceless characters, and encouragement of gambling.

Brief outline of the game

Role-playing game, set in 1850s Japan, in which players create either male or female Ronin protagonists. Players choose who they ally with and forge bonds with various characters as they take part in several key battles and historical events.

Content specific issues

This game contains depictions of graphic violence towards human characters. When characters are hit, they can be dismembered or decapitated, with high levels of blood. The game also allows players to visit gambling dens where they can play the game Odds and Evens, making bets on their choices by purchasing tokens with an in-game currency. Tokens you have won can then be exchanged for prizes.

Other issues

This game contains depictions of suicide and references to suicide.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 22/01/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

First-person action puzzle game, in a medieval fantasy setting, in which an exiled priest goes on a quest to hunt down heretical sects.

Content specific issues

This game contains sustained scenes of violence towards both human-like and fantasy characters. While physical reactions are minimal and unrealistic, moderate blood effects are shown and fantasy characters can be dismembered.

Other issues

The game also includes use of bad language ('bastard').

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 12/01/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features non-realistic looking violence towards characters which, although human, are not very detailed. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Action puzzle game, set during the Chinese Qin Dynasty, in which the soul of a farmer is transported into the body of a terracotta warrior and must rescue the cursed spirits of his fellow warriors.

Content specific issues

This game features non-realistic violence. Enemies cannot be directly attacked but can be stunned by redirecting the arrows they fire at you. If the player's character is hit, the screen flashes red. When the player's character runs out of points, they kneel down and a 'game over' screen is shown. Enemies flash red when hit and kneel down stunned.