Gato Roboto
Devolver Digital-
Nintendo Switch - 15/11/2023
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 3 and features occasional very mild violence in a comical or abstract context. Suitable for all ages.
Brief outline of the game
Platform game in which players take on the role of a cat who must rescue his owner after they crash land on a distant planet.
Content specific issues
Violence is mostly directed at pixelated fantasy characters but sometimes also at non-detailed animals and human-like characters. Violence and reactions are always very mild in nature: characters blink when hit, enemies disappear in puffs of smoke when defeated, and there’s no visible harm.
Goku’s Next Journey
Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.-
PlayStation 4 - 19/02/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 21/02/2024
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Xbox One - 20/02/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 21/02/2024
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
DLC for the action fighting game, 'Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot', in which the characters reunite after 10 years, with a new storyline, characters, battles and areas added.
Content specific issues
This game contains depictions of moderate, but non-realistic, violence towards both human and fantasy characters. Players throw punches and kicks, as well as using special abilities and energy blasts to defeat each other. Characters recoil from each blow, with a reduction in health, but return to their fighting stance almost immediately with little to no injury detail. Characters also fall to the ground when defeated. The game also contains use of bad language, including 'shit', 'bastard' and 'piss'.
Light Fairytale Episode 2
Red Art Games-
PlayStation 4 - 16/02/2024
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
Instalment in the Japanese role-playing game series in which players once again take on the role of Haru as he uncovers the mysteries of the 'Deeplands', meeting with a mysterious silver haired girl along the way.
Content specific issues
This game contains use of bad language ('bastard').
Other issues
The game also includes mild violence involving human and fantasy characters. Combat is turn-based, with characters attacking from a distance and with only mild reactions to violence. Characters flinch when hit but there is no injury detail, with damage indicated using numbers.
Planet Cube: Edge
Red Art Games-
PlayStation 5 - 26/04/2024
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. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Precision platform game with a retro pixel-art style in which players control a cube-shaped character called Edge, whose planet is invaded. Edge must make its way through multiple enemy and obstacle filled levels by running, jumping, shooting and dashing.
Content specific issues
Levels are filled with intentional hazards such as saw blades, laser beams and spikes. When hit, the player's character bursts into pixels and quickly respawns at a checkpoint. Enemies include bats and robots as well as giant mechanical bosses. These flash when hit and simply disappear when defeated. Violence is mild and unrealistic but frequent.
Pacific Drive
Maximum Entertainment Ireland LTD-
PlayStation 5 - 09/04/2024
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
Driving survival adventure game, set in an alternative version of 90s America, in which players face supernatural dangers in the unstable 'Olympic Exclusion Zone'. Players make an abandoned garage their base of operations, where you research new parts, customize your station wagon, and chart routes deeper into the Zone.
Content specific issues
This game contains use of bad language, including 'shit', 'goddamn' and 'screw you'.
Other issues
The game also features implied violence against the player's character, who can be harmed by radiation, shockwaves, and storms, as well by crashing their car. The game has a generally dark and unsettling atmosphere as the player must avoid and outrun storms and alien creatures.
Fran Bow
Super Rare Games-
Nintendo Switch - 15/02/2024
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
Point and click adventure game in which players take on the role of an 11-year-old girl who has been mentally traumatised after the brutal murder of her parents.
Content specific issues
This game features scenes of strong violence, including characters being shot, repeatedly stabbed, and knocked down and briefly strangled. There are depictions throughout the game of blood, gore and dismembered human and animal corpses. Some monstrous characters decapitate themselves.
Other issues
The overall theme of the game is dark and disturbing. It also includes infrequent use of bad language, including 'bastard' and 'bitch'.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Fulqrum Publishing Ltd.-
PC - 22/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features graphic violence towards fantasy characters. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Retro-style first-person shooter in which players are sent out to kill the guardians of the old world and any demons that stand in your way.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent graphic violence towards fantasy characters, such as skeletons and monsters. Successful impacts result in large amounts of blood and gore effects. Enemies can be decapitated, dismembered or blown into chunks.
High On Life
Squanch Games, Inc.-
Xbox Series X|S - 06/02/2024
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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.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake
505 Games S.p.A-
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.
Princess Peach: Showtime!
Nintendo of Europe AG-
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.