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.
Eiyuden Chronicle - Hundred Heroes
505 Games S.p.A-
PlayStation 5 - 23/10/2023
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PlayStation 4 - 23/10/2023
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Xbox One - 23/10/2023
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Xbox Series X|S - 23/10/2023
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PC - 23/10/2023
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes
Arc System Works Co.,Ltd-
PlayStation 4 - 24/01/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 25/01/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 25/01/2024
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
Side-scrolling fighting game in which players engage in one-on-one combat by selecting from human and supernatural characters.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic violence towards human characters. Characters use punches, kicks, weapons, and magical abilities to attack others. Effects appear when characters are struck, making the violence less realistic. Characters recoil and grunt when hit but quickly return to their fighting stance. When defeated, characters fall to the ground, although there is no injury detail. This game also features bad language such as 'shit' and 'pissed'.
Marvel's Midnight Suns: The Good, the Bad and the Undead
Take2 Interactive Software Europe ltd-
PlayStation 4 - 11/05/2023
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PlayStation 5 - 27/01/2023
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Xbox One - 11/05/2023
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PC - 27/01/2023
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Xbox Series X|S - 27/01/2023
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence, scenes of a sexual nature and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
DLC for Marvel's Midnight Suns, a tactical card-based strategy game in which players assemble teams of heroes to take on a range of human and fantasy characters.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate violence. When human characters are hit, they are knocked backwards and then rise to their feet again, without injuries. When defeated, they respond in an unrealistic and exaggerated fashion before falling to the ground. There is occasional sexual innuendo, for example when a character states "I'm a master baiter". The game also contains use of bad language, including 'bitch, 'bastard', 'piss', 'shit, 'asshole' and 'goddamn'.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of a Season Pass and Add-ons, 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.
Street Fighter 6 - Fighting Ground
CE Europe Ltd.-
PlayStation 4 - 29/06/2023
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PC - 29/06/2023
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PlayStation 5 - 29/06/2023
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Xbox Series X|S - 29/06/2023
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
DLC for the fighting game, Street Fighter 6, which pits a classic roster of Street Fighter characters against each another in a range of 'versus' modes.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic looking violence towards human-like characters. Bright lights and magical effects appear when characters are hit, with a health bar gradually depleting. When a character’s health bar fully depletes, they fall to the floor and the round ends. Some mild bruises and scratches can be seen building up on characters' bodies as fights progress, although the reactions to the violence are highly exaggerated.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of an in-game currency which can be used to buy cosmetic items such as character skins. 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.
Undisputed
Steel City Interactive-
PC - 31/01/2023
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
Boxing game featuring over 300 licenced fighters. The game includes online and offline game modes as well as a single player 'career' mode.
Content specific issues
This game features strong boxing violence which results in sight of blood and bruising.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of DLC that can be bought with real world currency, 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.
UNDECEMBER
LINE Games-
PC - 12/10/2022
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
Action role-playing game, set in a medieval fantasy world, in which players take on the role of a Rune Hunter on a quest to defeat a resurrected god.
Content specific issues
This game features strong violence involving human-like and fantasy characters, including sight of unrealistic dismemberment, with accompanying blood effects. There is sight of bodies and body parts lying on the battlefield before the disappear. Cinematic scenes include sight of human characters being knocked out using clubs, being shot with arrows, and being struck and impaled using swords. There is sight of blood but no graphic wound detail in these sequences.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of goods and currency (diamonds, rubies, gold, etc), 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.
Need for Speed™ Unbound
EA Swiss Sarl-
PC - 02/12/2022
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PlayStation 5 - 02/12/2022
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Xbox Series X|S - 02/12/2022
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
Latest instalment in the 'Need for Speed' series of arcade racing games, in which the player competes against other top street racers to win back credibility for their garage, which has faded into obscurity.
Content specific issues
This game features use of bad language, including 'bitch', 'dickhead', 'shit', 'piss' and 'asshole'.
Other issues
This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of character and car customisation items, 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. Cars can crash into each other, and into buildings and street furniture, but drivers are not shown. Pedestrians can be hit but show no physical response.
Under The Waves
QUANTIC DREAM-
PlayStation 4 - 28/08/2023
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PC - 28/08/2023
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PlayStation 5 - 28/08/2023
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Xbox Series X|S - 28/08/2023
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Xbox One - 28/08/2023
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 a professional maintenance diver returns to work following a family loss and must undertake an extended solitary mission.
Content specific issues
This game contains frequent use of strong language ('fuck') as well as use of milder terms including 'shit', 'bastard' and 'bloody'.
Other issues
The protagonist struggles from mental health issues stemming from the death of a family member, including hallucinations.
Ravenbound
Fatalist Development AB-
PC - 30/03/2023
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
Fantasy action game in which players take on the role of a character who can transform into a raven and who must fight the god of Decay.
Content specific issues
This game features realistic violence towards human characters, with sword strikes and stabs knocking characters backwards and causing them to bleed. Similar violence also occurs against fantasy characters.
Other issues
There are some cutscenes featuring large fantasy characters that may be disturbing to younger children.