Skip to main content

Sea of Solitude : The Director’s Cut

This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features realistic violence of a minor nature towards human characters, use of offensive language and moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 of age.
The world is set in a flooded city, based on Berlin. The player controls a young woman named Kay as she explores the abandoned, submerged city. Everything in the game has a deeper meaning as the world is inside Kay’s mind. It is a distorted mirror, a huge metaphor for the situation of Kay in the real world.

Details

PEGI leeftijdsadvies

12ViolenceBad Language

  • Beschikbaar op

    • Nintendo Switch (15/02/2021)

  • Uitgever

    QUANTIC DREAM

Rating issues

Violence in this game is mostly unrealistic towards the human-like player character for example if your character steps into the sea, a giant swimming monster will come and attack. It will throw your character into the air and catch you in its teeth and swallow you. There is no detail, just the body disappearing into the monster’s mouth as the character screams and the screen goes dark as it resets to the last checkpoint.

Your player character can be shoved backwards by some human-shaped monsters. The only sign of injury is shown by the screen changing colour and gets darker with each hit. Eventually the human-shaped monsters can overwhelm you and the screen will go dark as the game resets to the last checkpoint.

The game features the use of the word “shit” and “bullshit”.

Other issues

The game focuses on the loneliness and self-destructiveness of the character and her family members. The monsters can insult your character throughout the game. One particular chapter focuses on her brother and how he has had to deal with bullies. You can hear some of the insults they use against him, such as “Being ugly really does run in your family.” and “you’re such a waste of space”. There is also a scene where a male monster and female monster (representing the character’s parents) are arguing about how they had children too early and it ruined their careers. These themes may be distressing to some people.