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Violence
Horror
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 28/04/2024
  • 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'.

Sex
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 5 - 26/04/2024
  • 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.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 5 - 07/02/2024
  • PlayStation 4 - 07/02/2024
  • PC - 07/02/2024
  • Xbox One - 07/02/2024
  • Xbox Series X|S - 07/02/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Role-playing game, set during a fictional version of the Chinese Han dynasty, in which players must put a stop to the demonic forces which have taken over three kingdoms. This Complete Edition features the main game and all additional DLC.

Content specific issues

This game contains frequent strong and realistic violence towards human characters. Impacts with weapons cause large splashes of blood, which spills onto the ground, and characters grunt and flinch. Bloody bodies are seen on the ground of battlefields.

Other issues

The game also includes use of bad language, including 'bastard'.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 04/04/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features references to sexual threat. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Japanese visual novel in which King Enma sends his daughter to capture some prisoners who have escaped from Hell.

Content specific issues

This game features references to sexual threat. In one scene, a man commands a woman to remove her underwear at knifepoint before he is interrupted. In another scene, a girl wakes up and finds she has been captured and drugged with the intention of selling her off to men, although any such violence is prevented from happening.

Other issues

This game also includes references to suicide, prostitution and gambling, as well as use of bad language, including 'shit', 'bastard' and 'piss'.

Violence
Bad Language
Pre-release dates:
  • Nintendo Switch - 29/02/2024
  • PlayStation 4 - 29/02/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 29/02/2024
  • PC - 29/02/2024
  • Xbox One - 29/02/2024
  • Xbox Series X|S - 29/02/2024
Violence
In-Game Purchases
In-game purchases (includes random items)
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 15/03/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 15/03/2024
  • Xbox One - 15/03/2024
  • Xbox Series X|S - 15/03/2024
  • PC - 15/03/2024

Advice for consumers

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

Brief outline of the game

Latest instalment in the annual series of wrestling video games, based on the WWE, featuring hundreds of male and female wrestlers including WWE Superstars and Legends from the past. Players fight as a chosen WWE Superstar, WWE Legend, or custom character against AI opponents or other live players in an online environment.

Content specific issues

This game contains frequent depictions of strong and realistic violence towards human characters. Characters recoil from each blow and may be knocked to the ground, rolling on the floor in pain. Due to the game featuring Pro Wrestling, weapons such as sledgehammers, chairs and ladders can be used in matches. Characters become bruised and bloody after repeated blows.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of an in-game currency which then can be used to buy card packs featuring random 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.

Violence
In-Game Purchases
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 28/11/2023

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features scenes of bloody violence in an arcade setting. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Collection of arcade fighting games, comprising seasons 1, 2 and 3 of 'Killer Instinct', with additional skins and a visual upgrade. Players must defeat their opponents in an arena.

Content specific issues

This game features sustained arcade-style violence. While movements and reactions are exaggerated, blood appears when characters are hit, including with a variety of weapons including guns and swords.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to purchase an in-game currency, which can then be used to but skins or accelerate progression, 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.

Bad Language
Horror
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 15/02/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 15/02/2024

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features gory images and use of strong language. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.

Brief outline of the game

Horror visual novel adventure game, set in a suburb of H City in Tokyo, in which Kazuo Yashiki is hired to investigate supernatural occurrences at Konoehara Academy

Content specific issues

This game features still images showing human characters that have been mutilated or subject to bizarre rituals. There is also use of strong language ('fuck'), as well as milder terms including 'piss' and 'shit'.

Other issues

The game also includes some implied violence against the player's character, although the violence is not visually depicted due to the first-person perspective. There are references to bullying behaviour, including a student being made to place a hose around her neck and stand on a bucket, which is shown using still images, with an implication she was hanged.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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'.