SaGa Emerald Beyond
Square Enix Ltd-
PC - 25/04/2024
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
Role-playing game, the latest standalone entry in the SaGa franchise, which combines visual novel and turn-based combat.
Content specific issues
This game contains depictions of moderate violence towards human characters. When hit, characters recoil and can be thrown backwards onto the ground, with damage indicated using numbers. However, there is no injury detail. The game also features bad language, including 'bastard'.
Hidden Objects Collection 5: Detective Stories
Funbox Media Ltd-
Nintendo Switch - 17/05/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence, images that younger players may find disturbing, and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Collection of Hidden Objects games.
Content specific issues
One of the games feature moderate violence, including a person being tasered unconscious and a struggle between two people in which one of them falls off a dock. Violence in the other games is milder. There is sight of dead bodies, which younger players may find disturbing. The games also include use of bad language, including frequent use of 'bastard'.
Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection
U&I Entertainment Limited-
Nintendo Switch - 01/03/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 01/03/2024
TEVI
PM Studios-
Nintendo Switch - 20/02/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 20/02/2024
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
Side-scrolling platform adventure game in which players take on the role of Tevi as she travels through a sprawling land scarred by conflict, on a journey to discover the truth about the mythical objects which allow her to use magic.
Content specific issues
This game features infrequent use of bad language, such as 'bastard', as well as milder terms such as 'damn' and 'screw'.
Other issues
The game also includes mild and unrealistic violence, including the use of both weapons and magic against a range of fantastical enemies. Characters flash when hit, with damage shown using numbers, but there is no sight of blood or injuries. Defeated enemies disappear off screen. Some scenes refer to characters having been forcibly sedated and surgically altered, although this is not visually depicted. There are references to alcohol and some very mild sexual innuendo, including references to 'bosoms' and to a character being 'ripe for plucking'. One location includes a casino in which a mini-game can be played but without any instruction or glamorising of gambling.
Songs of Silence
Chimera Entertainment-
PC - 11/04/2024
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
Strategy game set in a fantasy world in which three factions are battling an evil entity. The game features a mix of turn-based kingdom management, auto battler, and hero development, contrasted with real-time battles.
Content specific issues
Violence is seen from afar and takes place between groups of human-like and fantasy characters. Violence and reactions are unrealistic in nature: there’s not much detail, though the corpses of units remain on the ground. However, some of the illustrations used in the cut-scenes feature scenes of somewhat realistic violence towards human-like characters, involving small amounts of blood. This game contains use of the words 'bastard', 'shit' and 'bloody'.
Mixture
Perpetual - Europe-
PlayStation 5 - 06/02/2024
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
Virtual reality fantasy action adventure in which players take on the roles of an alchemist and a knight who join forces to progress through barren worlds on a quest for redemption.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate violence to human characters. Impacts cause characters to flinch with an associated reduction in health. There is no blood or injury detail.
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.
Nova Hearts: The Spark
Lightbulb Crew-
PC - 17/01/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language and scenes of a sexual nature. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Visual novel which combines a text-message driven story with side-scrolling turn-based arcade-style combat. Players transform into their cosmic alter-egos and utilise their unique powers to battle enemies from another dimension.
Content specific issues
This game features use of bad language including 'shit' and 'bitch'. There are also some visual and verbal sexual references, which vary from flirtatious comments to oblique references to BDSM.
Other issues
The game also includes mild violence, with characters flashing when hit during physical and magical attacks, with number damage indicated. While there are some minor grunting sounds, reactions are unrealistic and there is no sight of blood or injuries.
TRINITY SURVIVORS
Flyway Games-
PC - 17/01/2024
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
Survival game in which players control a unit made up of three characters which must fight against incoming waves of fantastical enemies.
Content specific issues
One of the background stories in the game's library includes use of bad language ('bastards').
Other issues
The game also features mild violence, which is cartoon-like and comical in style. However, it is possible for enemies to break apart, leaving their body parts strewn on the ground. These body parts are not depicted in a realistic manner. Blood stains also appear on the ground wherever enemies are slain. There are references to severed ears and alcoholism.
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.