Among Us – Crewmate Edition
Maximum Entertainment Ireland LTD-
Nintendo Switch - 02/11/2021
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PlayStation 4 - 02/11/2021
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PlayStation 5 - 02/11/2021
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Xbox One - 02/11/2021
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Xbox Series X|S - 02/11/2021
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PC - 02/11/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Among Us is a strategy game in which the crewmates of a spaceship, or an airship, must find out which of their teammates are imposters, while they prepare their ship for launch.
Content specific issues
There are scenes of mild violence involving cartoon-like characters inside space suits. The violence is non-realistic, as are the reactions to the violence.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase additional content, such as new maps, outfits and pets. 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.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS
Square Enix Ltd-
PC - 15/10/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features violence against humans that is not shown but is implied. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Board-game-like dungeon crawler in which a mysterious labyrinth appears on the outskirts of a quiet town. Players must select a team of heroes to defeat the monsters that lurk within.
Content specific issues
This game features turn-based battles in which violence towards human-like characters is implied through visual effects which occur over still images. These images are not animated and do not display any visible harm or hurt. When enemies are defeated, they simply disappear.
Hotel Transylvania: Scary-tale Adventures
Outright Games-
Nintendo Switch - 22/10/2021
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PC - 22/10/2021
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Xbox One - 22/10/2021
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PlayStation 4 - 22/10/2021
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Xbox Series X|S - 22/10/2021
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PlayStation 5 - 22/10/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features non-realistic violence in a child-friendly setting or context and pictures or sounds likely to be scary to young children. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
3D adventure game, based on the animated films, in which players make their way through three bedtime stories being told by Count Dracula. The stories are re-imaginings of well-known fairy tales. Players must complete platform puzzles, collect items and defeat enemies as the stories unfold.
Content specific issues
Players have to defeat enemies by hitting or kicking them. When struck, they are knocked backwards. After enough hits, they collapse and disappear in a puff of smoke. The player's character can also be hit by the enemy characters. When hit, they make a grunting sound and their health reduces. When little health is left, the sides of the screen flash red, and when health is exhausted, the player's character falls down and then turns into a bat before respawning at an earlier point. There are no visible injuries. Potentially scary content occurs within a light-hearted context. However, some of the monster characters may be frightening for very young children.
The Addams Family Mansion Mayhem
Outright Games-
PC - 24/09/2021
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Nintendo Switch - 24/09/2021
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PlayStation 4 - 24/09/2021
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Xbox One - 24/09/2021
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Xbox Series X|S - 24/09/2021
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Stadia - 24/09/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human-like and fantasy characters. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
3D platforming adventure in which players take on the roles of Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley as they work to prevent their mansion being turned into an 'escape room' by developers.
Content specific issues
The main characters fight against a number of fantastical enemies, including skeletons, walking tombstones and vegetables. When enemies are hit, they flinch or recoil. When defeated, they disappear in a puff of smoke. When the main characters are hit, they flash and their health bars are reduced. When defeated, they simply disappear and respawn. There are no realistic reactions or visible injuries.
Other issues
Some aspects of the game may be slightly sinister, such as sight of floating eyeballs in a pot of soup and a level set in a graveyard, but any scary content is usually comic in nature and never very threatening.
Super Animal Royale
Maximum Entertainment Ireland LTD-
PC - 24/08/2021
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Stadia - 24/08/2021
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. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
2D top-down multiplayer game in which cartoon animals fight for survival in an abandoned safari park.
Content specific issues
Violence in the game is non-realistic in nature and occurs between fantasy animal characters that walk on two legs and wear clothes. Reactions to violence are minimal. When their health bars are depleted, the animals fall to the ground without any injury detail.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of cosmetic items and battle passes, 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.
Psychonauts 2
Xbox Game Studios-
PlayStation 4 - 24/08/2021
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PC - 24/08/2021
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Xbox One - 24/08/2021
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Xbox Series X|S - 24/08/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human and fantasy characters, as well as pictures or sounds likely to be scary to young children. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Platform game, which is a sequel to the 2005 original and a follow-up to 2017's 'Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin'. Players take on the role of Razputin, who must use his psychic powers to investigate changes made to the Psychonauts organisation in the absence of the head Psychonaut.
Content specific issues
This game features mild violence involving fantasy characters and human-like characters. The human characters are cartoon-like in nature, with exaggerated features, and the fantasy characters are often surreal, including chattering teeth, germs and fruit slices. Characters can be punched, hit with objects or attacked using various psychic abilities. Reactions to violence are unrealistic: impacts often result in flashes and stars appearing above characters, without any blood or injury detail. When enemies are defeated, they disappear, sometimes in clouds of smoke. In one comic scene, a watermelon slices runs around inside a blender, before being turned into a smoothie. Some scenes may be scary to younger children, including one in which the main character is kidnapped by a giant enemy and dropped into a vortex. He panics for a while until he realises that his levitation powers will allow him to escape.
Other issues
In one sequence, the central character enters the mind of another. This takes the form of a hospital which has been distorted into a casino. Although characters are seen at gambling tables and machines, the sequence does not glamorise gambling or offer any specific instruction in gambling. There is some very mild comic innuendo and occasional sight of characters holding cigarettes or cigars.
Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars
Square Enix Ltd-
PC - 28/10/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features violence against humans that is not shown but is implied. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Turn-based card-battling fantasy role-playing game, with an emphasis on party management and storytelling.
Content specific issues
All violence occurs between still images of characters depicted on cards. When an attack occurs, one card moves on top of another and a magical spell effect appears, with the level of damage indicated. When defeated, the relevant character's card moves off screen. There is a scene in which a human-like character is shown with blood streaming down his face as a result of battle. There are also various text-based references to violence.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of cosmetic items, 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. purchase such items.
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Draw Me A Pixel-
Nintendo Switch - 31/08/2021
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PC - 30/04/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features pictures or sounds likely to be scary to young children, mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human-like characters, and 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
Point and click game in which players must navigate through a series of puzzles in the hope of reaching the end.
Content specific issues
This game features some scenes that younger children may find scary. For example, one villain appears as a dark cloud with menacing eyes. In another sequence, a man is electrocuted when he spills liquid on his router and is then chased by his vacuum cleaner. The game also includes some mild violence during pixelated mini-games, including spacecraft shooting at aliens, medieval sword fights, skeletons being blown up and floating people being hit with a fist, causing them to say "Ouch". There is no sight of blood or injuries and defeated characters usually disappear in a flash or a puff of smoke.
Marvel Puzzle Quest
D3Go - D3Publisher-
PC - 21/04/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human-like and fantasy characters, as well as pictures or sounds likely to be scary to young children. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Match 3 puzzle game themed around Marvel characters.
Content specific issues
Players must engage in combat with other characters by matching puzzle tiles. While violent acts are not explicitly depicted, characters' health bars are seen to reduce and there are frequent verbal references to violence and its results, as well as references to characters being "downed". The game includes visuals of frightening characters such as Venom and Carnage, which may be scary to younger children.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, such as powering up characters' abilities, 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.
Puzzle Quest 3
505 Games S.p.A-
PC - 26/05/2021
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human-like and fantasy characters. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Role-playing puzzle game in which players embark on a quest to save the world of Etheria.
Content specific issues
This game features mild violence between human and fantasy characters. Characters fight using medieval weapons and magic. They flinch and grunt when hit, with damage indicated in the form of numbers. Defeated characters simply fall to the ground and disintegrate, without any blood or injury detail.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of crowns, gems, keys and chests which contain random useable items. 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.