Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Annapurna Games, LLC-
Nintendo Switch - 16/05/2024
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PC - 16/05/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features 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
Puzzle adventure in which a woman searches for answers in an old building in central Europe.
Content specific issues
The game includes infrequent sight of a dead person, with blood on their face, which younger players may find disturbing. There are also some jump scares. There is infrequent use of bad language, including 'shit'.
Other issues
There are scenes of implied violence, as a gun is fired, and references to alcohol.
Dragon Ball FighterZ - Legendary Edition
Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.-
PC - 29/02/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 29/02/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 29/02/2024
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Xbox One - 29/02/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 29/02/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 29/02/2024
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
Special edition of the fighting game, featuring the 2018 base game and subsequently released DLC, in which Goku and his friends must fight a new battle against a revived Android 16 and an army of super androids designed to resemble and fight like them.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate but unrealistic violence. Violence takes place in a game environment in which characters are restricted to movement in four directions: up, down, left and right. Strikes are accompanied by flashes of bright coloured lights and a reduction in the health bar. Once defeated a character remains motionless on the floor. The game also include use of bad language ('bastard', 'piss').
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II
Aksys Games-
Nintendo Switch - 15/02/2024
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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.
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.
Total War: PHARAOH Blood & Sand
SEGA-
PC - 31/01/2024
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.
Brief outline of the game
DLC for the tactical strategy game set in ancient Egypt, which adds new kill moves and gory effects.
Content specific issues
This DLC features graphic violence including decapitations and dismemberment. Heavy blood effects appear during violence and there is sight of injuries and severed body parts after violence.
Other issues
The base game also includes use of bad language.
A Space for the Unbound
Tesura Games-
Nintendo Switch - 26/01/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 26/01/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 26/01/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 16 because it features prominent use of tobacco. Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Point-and-click adventure game, set in rural Indonesia in the late 1990s, in which a high school boy develops a relationship with a girl with supernatural powers.
Content specific issues
Part of the gameplay involves a high school student obtaining tobacco products for another student, in order to trade for an item to progress the storyline. Once traded, the other student is then depicted smoking. Later scenes also shown other students and adults smoking.
Other issues
The plot touches on a range of sensitive issues, including depression, anxiety, bullying, domestic abuse and attempted suicide. However, the focus in on overcoming these issues. Violence is generally only implied, with characters taking up fighting postures and making gestures towards each other without making clear physical contact. Any implied contact is covered by flash effects. There is a reference to a cat being accidentally run over, although this is not shown. The cat's body can be seen lying on the road after the event. Dialogue includes use of bad language, including 'prick', 'bitch', 'shit', 'bastard', 'screw' and 'ass'. There are references to alcohol.
Evercade Piko Interactive Collection 4
Blaze Entertainment Ltd-
Evercade - 26/04/2024
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
Collection of ten arcade-style games from the 1980s onwards, all of which were previously released on classic home game consoles. The games are: Glover, Street Racer, Risky Woods, Skuljagger, Zero Tolerance Underground, Star X, Mermaids of Atlantis, Bad Street Brawler, The Fidgetts and Target Renegade.
Content specific issues
Many of the games feature mild violence. However, the game 'Zero Tolerance Underground' contains more moderate violence towards human-like characters. When characters are shot, there is a brief flash of light and some minor blood splatter, after which the character transforms into a pixelated and unrecognisable heap on the floor.
Evercade Sunsoft Collection 2
Blaze Entertainment Ltd-
Evercade - 26/04/2024
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
Compilation of games previously released on 8, 16 and 32-bit consoles. This package includes Blaster Master: Enemy Below, Ufouria: The Saga, Daze Before Christmas, Aero the Acro-Bat 2, Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, Pri Pri Primitive Princess! and Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors.
Content specific issues
This collection contains a fighting game, 'Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors', which features moderate violence. Violence in other games is milder in nature.