Rating issues
This game features strong violence during cinematic scenes, including sight of characters being hit, battered or stabbed to death, and pushed down stairs. Violence towards the player’s character is only implied, because of the game’s first person perspective, with red blood splattering onto the screen and ‘Game Over’ appearing when the player is defeated. Some of the violence involves vulnerable and defenceless characters, including a character who is bound to a chair and unable to escape from a burning room, and a character’s hand being struck, causing them to fall from the ledge they are holding on to.
There are references to suicide. Some murders, including hangings, are made to look as if they were suicides. There is also a scene in which a person appears to cut their own throat. While the cutting is not shown, the character does collapse into a pool of blood.
Other issues
The game also features scenes of horror, including jump scares when ghouls appear and when the player’s character is chased by them. Some of these ghosts are shown re-enacting the moments that led up to their own deaths, including hanging from walls and ceilings or falling from stairwells, often disappearing into the ether just before their corpse is shown. Corpses are often seen throughout the game, some with no visible injuries, others rotting or skeletal, in bloodstained clothing or locations. There are references to watching porn, although no sexual content is depicted, as well as references to smoking.
