Contraptions Collection
Funbox Media Ltd-
Nintendo Switch - 19/04/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 19/04/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 19/04/2024
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
Compilation of three physics-based puzzle games in which players must build various contraptions, using the given elements, which must then work in unison do defeat small aliens.
Content specific issues
This game features very mild forms of violence towards fantasy characters. In each puzzle, the player is tasked with defeating small, green aliens using various contraptions. These aliens simply disappear in puffs of smoke when defeated, without visible injuries.
Morbid: The Lords of Ire
Merge Games-
Nintendo Switch - 28/04/2024
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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'.
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
EA Swiss Sarl-
PC - 23/04/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 23/04/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 23/04/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 23/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to 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
Side-scrolling action platform game in which a young shaman called Zau sets out to rescue his father's soul by defeating three spirits who have defied the god of death.
Content specific issues
This game features frequent mild violence, which is either directed at the player's human character or at fantasy enemies. Violence and reactions are unrealistic in nature. Enemies flash when hit, have health bars, and disappear into particles when defeated. The player's character does not display any visible harm or hurt, and also disperses into purple particles when defeated. The bosses the player encounters are often menacing and somewhat disturbing in design and may scare young children.
Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling
Reef Entertainment Ltd-
Nintendo Switch - 07/05/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Visual novel sequel in which a matchmaker continues in her quest to find brides for eligible bachelors, further expanding on the various endings of the original with new scenarios, story CG artwork, and a new romanceable character.
Content specific issues
This game features still images suggesting sexual activity, such as sight of characters kissing and embracing while partially undressed and on beds, although no nudity is shown. The accompanying text describes in detail what the couples are doing. One scenario features a character making initially unwanted advances to another character who is inebriated. She eventually gives in to his advances. There is also a sequence featuring a fantasy character with a wolf's head but a human body.
Other issues
The game also includes use of bad language, including 'shit', 'piss' and 'bastard', as well as references to alcohol. In one scene, a still image of a demoness is shown, with some arrows protruding from her back. However, there is no blood or injury detail and no sight of how the arrows got there.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants
GameMill Entertainment-
Nintendo Switch - 23/04/2024
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PC - 23/04/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 23/04/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 23/04/2024
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Xbox One - 23/04/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 23/04/2024
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
Reissue of the 2017 arcade-style beat-'em-up game, with three additional stages and six additional boss battles, in which players take control of Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello or Raphael.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate violence in the form of close quarter arcade-style combat between the turtles and a variety of human-like and fantastical enemies. Impacts result in bright flashing effects without any blood or injuries, although boss fights in particular feature some close-ups of violence and death animations.
Think Logic! Sudoku - Binary - Suguru
Mindscape BV.-
Nintendo Switch - 18/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 3. Suitable for all ages.
Brief outline of the game
Puzzle game compilation featuring three different types of number puzzles - Sudoku, Binary and Suguru - with 400 puzzles to solve. The puzzles have different levels of difficulty.
Content specific issues
No rating issues.
One Last Breath
SELECTAVISION-
PlayStation 5 - 26/04/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 26/04/2024
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 which players take on the role of Gaia, a humanoid representation of nature, who must help the world come back to life again.
Content specific issues
The game contains infrequent use of strong language ('fuck').
Other issues
The player's character can be defeated by obstacles or enemies, although she cannot engage in violence herself. When defeated, the player's character may scream and then disappear. Enemy creatures may also be killed by obstacles, although they simply fall over without injuries or any realistic reactions. There are some mild jump scares, which younger children may find frightening.
Boardwalk Arcade 2
U&I Entertainment Limited-
Nintendo Switch - 26/04/2024
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
Collection of 10 arcade-style mini-games: Shooting Gallery, Ring Toss, Skill-Ball, Whack-a-Mole, Balloon Darts, Mini-Bowling, Hoop Shot, Frog Launch, Claw Machine and Pinball.
Content specific issues
In the Whack-a-Mole mini-game, players hit moles on the tops of their head with a plushy hammer. The moles flinch and flash red when hit, then disappear into a hole.
Lunar Lander Beyond
U&I Entertainment Limited-
PlayStation 5 - 26/04/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 26/04/2024
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
Space piloting game in which players must navigate their craft through a series of missions, delivering cargo, retrieving resources, and rescuing stranded pilots, as they navigate a mysterious universe of moons and planets.
Content specific issues
This game features use of bad language, including 'bastard' and 'ass', as well as milder terms such as 'hell' and 'damn'.
Other issues
There are references to alcohol and to stress-reduction pills. If the player's craft runs out of health points, the mission fails and restarts, although the death of the pilot is not shown. One level requires players to encourage a giant alien creature, which is firing upon you, to accidentally shoot and destroy itself. However, its physical reaction is unrealistic and neither blood nor injuries are depicted.
Pepper Grinder
Devolver Digital-
Nintendo Switch - 05/03/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 7 because it features mild and non-realistic violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to both non-detailed human-like and fantasy characters. Not suitable for persons under 7 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Side-scrolling platform game in which players use a large drill to navigate terrain and fend off fantasy creatures.
Content specific issues
This game features mild violence. Enemy characters flash when hit and damage is indicated using numbers, without blood or injury detail. When the player's character is defeated, it falls off screen and respawns.
Other issues
2D side-scrolling platformer in which your pixelated, non-detailed human-like character uses a large drill to navigate the terrain and fend off enemy fantasy creatures.