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Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

Drugs
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 26/01/2024
  • PlayStation 4 - 26/01/2024
  • 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.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

Violence
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • 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.

In-Game Purchases
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • Nintendo Switch - 05/12/2023
  • PC - 05/12/2023
  • PlayStation 4 - 05/12/2023
  • PlayStation 5 - 05/12/2023
  • Xbox One - 05/12/2023
  • Xbox Series X|S - 05/12/2023

Advice for consumers

This game has received a PEGI 3. Suitable for all ages.

Brief outline of the game

Expansion for 'Disney Dreamlight Valley' in which players can explore a new map, meet new characters, and use new tools.

Content specific issues

No rating issues.

Other issues

Players are able to purchase an in-game currency, with which they can buy various cosmetic items.

Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 26/03/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 26/03/2024
  • Xbox Series X|S - 26/03/2024
  • Nintendo Switch - 26/03/2024

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

Comedy adventure game in which players join with up to three friends, in a four player co-op, and battle their way through the snow-piled town of South Park on a quest to save the world and enjoy a day without school.

Content specific issues

Dialogue includes frequent use of strong language ('fuck'), as well as milder terms, including 'shit', 'pussy', 'asshole', 'bastard', 'bitch', 'piss' and 'dick'. There is also use of discriminatory terms, including the word 'gaylord' and a slogan on a T-shirt which says "Pray the gay away”.

Other issues

The game also features scenes of moderate violence. Physical reactions are unrealistic, with flashing effects on impacts and damage indicated using numbers. Once a character's life meter is exhausted, they lie on the ground. There is no sight of wounds, although some blood is shown. Cinematic scenes include sight of townspeople who have frozen to death, although the images are in the usual simple animated style of South Park. The game also includes some verbal sexual references, non-sexual nudity, and references to alcohol and drugs.

Violence
Bad Language
In-Game Purchases
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PC - 09/02/2024
  • PlayStation 4 - 09/02/2024
  • PlayStation 5 - 09/02/2024
  • Xbox Series X|S - 09/02/2024

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, violence against vulnerable and defenceless characters, and use of strong language.

Brief outline of the game

Gold edition of the remake of the 2005 action shooter in which government agent Leon S. Kennedy gets more than he bargained for when a rescue mission turns into a life-or-death struggle against a bloodthirsty cult, a gruesome plague, and a malevolent conspiracy.

Content specific issues

This game contains depictions of graphic violence towards human characters. Players encounter human enemies who are possessed by a parasite. These enemies can be completely dismembered and decapitated using different calibres of firearms. There are also examples of violence to vulnerable and defenceless characters. One scene during gameplay depicts a captured police officer tied to a stake. A group of infected then set the pyre alight which causes the man to panic and scream as he is burnt alive. The game also features use of strong language ('fuck') as well as milder terms including 'shit'.

Other issues

This game offers players the opportunity to purchase in-game items, in the form of Weapon Upgrade Tickets, 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.

Violence
Bad Language
Release Dates & Platforms:
  • PlayStation 4 - 12/12/2023
  • PlayStation 5 - 12/12/2023

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 and use of strong language.

Brief outline of the game

DLC for the game, 'God of War Ragnarök', which extends the game with a new mode that sends Kratos and Mimir to Valhalla to confront the demons of Kratos' past.

Content specific issues

This game features graphic violence. When human characters are struck with an axe or sword, they make pained sounds and blood effects are shown upon impact. As attacks continue, the volume of blood splatter increases and impacts can lead to decapitation or dismemberment. The game also contains use of strong language ('fuck').