Does the dog die?
9,240 supporters
Dead By Daylight
Video Game
ReportThis video game contains 41 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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angrydoberman
In the archives, Hill Billy killed police dogs. The Clown has also killed dogs. All of this is lore though, it does not show up in the gameplay.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there excessive gore?
499 supporters
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d1zzy
The game and mori's show blood but no actual gore. It still looks graphic though
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S0L3SURVIV0R
In The Artist’s backstory it describes her attempt to kill herself after the death of her younger brother. This event is also referenced in several of her cosmetics and power add ons
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
145 supporters
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S0L3SURVIV0R
The Skull Merchant’s father leaves her as a child
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
271 supporters
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thenumbereleven
Every match involves Survivor players being hunted down/stalked by Killer players. Worthy of note is Michael Meyers, who gains power by stealthily staring at Survivors from a distance.
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trickedboon
There is no violence on-screen but some character backgrounds may involve it; The Hillbilly was abused as a child.
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MakutaTexxidos
The Spirit is a young Japanese woman who has been abused by her father and becomes a vengeful ghost killer. - This is however all contained in the character's optional backstory.
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trickedboon
There is no abuse on-screen, but many characters' backgrounds include childhood trauma.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
226 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
“The Pig” has a backstory in which she used to be an addict, but it is barely mentioned even in her backstory.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
208 supporters
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DialgaMatthews
Alcohol is mentioned at various points in the game’s lore (such as a survivor’s backstory involving a hangover) but is never shown.
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BriarRosePatch
The character “the Clown” attacks survivors by throwing bottles of chemicals at them, which makes them dizzy. In his backstory these are said to be drugs. It does not affect the players very much, only blurring the screen and making them cough.
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
642 supporters
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GrimKim
On one map there is a horse with it's ribs visible. It is obviously sick/dying or undead.
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BriarRosePatch
In multiple levels you can find dead pigs hung as if in a butcher shop. One character wears a dead pig as a mask, but it is never shown alive or being killed.
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Are animals abused?
1,530 supporters
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JennaLafontaine
While no animals are seen being abused, several animal carcasses can be found in levels, along with an apparently live horse that appears badly injured.
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Is there a dead animal?
617 supporters
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FandomLover
Multiple carcasses are shown as well as hanging pigs
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Does a cat die?
1,207 supporters
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JennaLafontaine
One of the Demogorgon's add-ons references a cat that was killed by it in the series Stranger Things.
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Does a dragon die?
196 supporters
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FandomLover
There are no dragons in the game.
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Are there spiders?
444 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
The entity, which is the main antagonist of the game, resembles a spider. The killer player’s goal is to feed survivors to her, and it is impossible to play the game without seeing this regularly.
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Are there bugs?
281 supporters
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kirk
There are cockroaches that can be seen in the basements of the houses in the Springfield Maps.
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
178 supporters
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MakutaTexxidos
One of the main mechanics involves the killer characters picking up helpless survivors over their shoulder - in the memento mori death animation of certain killers, the survivors are also restrained by force or supernatural means
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teapotcutie
Some of the crossover characters have sexually assaulted others, but it's never mentioned or depicted ingame.
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Bodily Harm
Is there cannibalism?
318 supporters
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WitchAndroid
Leatherface from Texas chainsaw massacre is a playable character nicknamed "the cannibal" and while he doesn't on screen eat anyone like the hag, many of his items reference it
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Is someone burned alive?
439 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
One of the characters available to play as/against is Freddy Kruger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series, who is a vengeful ghost who was murdered by fire. His design reflects this as he is covered in burns.
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Is there amputation?
310 supporters
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JennaLafontaine
The Clown's mori (kill) animation shows him removing a victim's finger.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
520 supporters
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koroneinugami
as far as i know, there's not any sexual content in dead by daylight.
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Is someone buried alive?
363 supporters
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Anon149
In the Pinhead Mori, the survivor is chained to a log with spiked and dragged down through a blue portal in the floor, which closes up behind the survivor.
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Is there a hanging?
489 supporters
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DanieT
there are images of nooses on a map that contains gallows. players are hung on a hook by killers as a means of killers winning
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Does someone asphyxiate?
148 supporters
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MakutaTexxidos
The Nurse can strangle Survivors in her memento mori animation
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
633 supporters
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DemetrioZannetti
when the clown uses a memento mori to kill a survivor he chops of their right index finger and tastes it before storing it on their person after violently stomping their head
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Does someone break a bone?
262 supporters
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FandomLover
The Deathslingers background shows him breaking his leg after beating and killing his prison warden
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Are any teeth damaged?
476 supporters
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Raccaine
In a Tome cutscene for Nea's story "Rebel With a Cause," a mayor gets in a car wreck and we see him dead in the aftermath of the wreck, with multiple teeth fallen out. In additional Tome cutscene, for "Go For Broke," the character Ace Visconti gets in a bar fight where his face, and teeth, are damaged.
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Is there eye mutilation?
981 supporters
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thenumbereleven
The Doctor's eye sockets are held open by his headgear in a rather disturbing fashion.
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Is someone tortured?
761 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
You cannot play this game and avoid seeing torture. The main purpose of the game is for the player acting as the killer to hunt down and kill four players who are survivors. [TRIGGER WARNING] This is done by hanging them on meat hooks, which slowly kills them. The Pyramid Head can trap survivors in cages of barbed wire instead, and The Pig (who is from the Saw series) places a trap from the series around survivor’s heads.
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Does someone fall to their death?
194 supporters
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Anonymous
* also want to note there is also no fall damage in game
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Is there shaving/cutting?
502 supporters
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kirk
Lacerating survivors is a key part of the gameplay.
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Does someone have a seizure?
176 supporters
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MakutaTexxidos
The Onryo's Condemn kill animation induces in the survivor player character either a seizure or a heart attack - this happens rarely but it does
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
328 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
The character “the Nurse” wears a pillowcase on her head which restricts breathing. Several of the killers breathe in a ragged way.
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Does a head get squashed?
573 supporters
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PigRidingZombie
The clown has a mori where he smashes their head on the ground till death then takes a finger
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Children
Does a kid die?
644 supporters
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trickedboon
Not on-screen, but one or more of the characters' backstories involve children
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
122 supporters
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d1zzy
Survivors can take hits for each other or "trade" being on hooks. If someone dies by a Hook, the game considers it a "sacrifice"
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Disability
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
171 supporters
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PigRidingZombie
The entity pulls people into his realm and they are never seen again
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Does a parent die?
326 supporters
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JennaLafontaine
The Spirit's backstory does mention the violent death of her mother.
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
164 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
Several of the killers are either hinted to be possessed, or are ghosts and demons themselves. As of now, players cannot be possessed by other players in combat, but because the game is always adding more characters there is a possibility this could change.
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S0L3SURVIV0R
The Nightmare has several razors attached to a glove and The Clown has at least one cosmetic that changes his butterfly knife into a straight razor
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Are there jumpscares?
785 supporters
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DemetrioZannetti
this is a playstyle some killers like michael myers, the wraith, and the pig can use against survivors
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Is there a shower scene?
159 supporters
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koroneinugami
there are showers in the maps, but you can't use them.
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Are there clowns?
202 supporters
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DemetrioZannetti
a playable killer is a killer clown named the clown this is all
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Are there ghosts?
107 supporters
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DialgaMatthews
One killer (The Spirit) is the ghost of a mutilated young woman. Freddy Krueger also makes an appearance, and two killers (Wraith and Nurse) have ghost-like traits. Ghostface is also in this game.
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Gross
Does someone spit?
198 supporters
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miitsuri
the killer "the deathslinger" spits on the ground when you select him in the menu but that's about it
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Does someone vomit?
1,196 supporters
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fetishfangirl
the plague vomits on survivors and the map and causes survivors to vomit as well
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
134 supporters
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EdgionTG
Sort of. In the trailer cutscene for Tome VIII - Deliverance, there is a flashback sequence in which a young Jeffrey Hawk (The Clown) wets himself in fear of his father's alcoholic rage.
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Is there audio gore?
387 supporters
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FandomLover
Plenty of sounds of stabbing and being impaled.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
238 supporters
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ManyBees
Some licensed character are positively portrayed cops but for original characters there's a CIA guy who was involved in a war crime and a short story in the archives about a cop being haunted by the ghosts of all the dogs he's shot.
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
Does someone have cancer?
231 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
One very minor reference. The character “the Pig” has a power up that references someone she knows who has cancer, specifically his medical file. This character is absent in the game, and this power up can be avoided by not playing as the Pig.
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Are needles/syringes used?
497 supporters
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24
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thenumbereleven
Some Med-Kit add-ons use needles and syringes as their icons, but they are not modelled/ever shown in-action.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
386 supporters
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JennaLafontaine
Two levels take place in abandoned mental hospitals. One of them, Lery's Memorial Institute, features sounds of shock therapy and screams as background noise.
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Is there a hospital scene?
197 supporters
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DemetrioZannetti
stage called lery's memorial hospital
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Is electro-therapy used?
263 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
The character known as “the Doctor” hunts down survivors and electrocutes them, and this is called “shock therapy” in the game. However, this is not realistically portrayed at all in game. The Doctor’s backstory does show that he used to perform realistic shock therapy, however.
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Mental Health
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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BriarRosePatch
The character “the Pig” has a power up in the form of a small box with razors in it, and the text on the power up explains that she uses this to self harm and it gives her strength. This power up can be avoided by not playing as the Pig.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
250 supporters
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12
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sparksfly
The Nurse is implied to have mentally “snapped,” causing her to kill people. A few of the other Killers are implied to be mentally ill. On the other side of the spectrum, multiple Survivors are implied to have mental illnesses or neurodivergency, and said survivors are not aggressive.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
573 supporters
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sparksfly
In Claudette’s lore, she’s heavily implied to be autistic, and her mother treated her coldly because of this, just wanting her to be like the other kids. (In actuality, her mother really wanted for her not to be bullied, however this isn’t stated at first in her lore.) Another character, Felix, is told by his father to get help for his social issues.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
573 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
In the backstory of the character “the Hag,” it is described that she was starved nearly to death. Additionally while not an eating disorder (but I do not know where else to categorize this), multiple characters engage in cannibalism.
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Is there misophonia?
238 supporters
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11
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FandomLover
The players show fear, heavy breathing, whenever they hear a load heartbeat sounding. This indicates when the killer is nearby.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
434 supporters
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6
No
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trickedboon
No, but there is a loud heartbeat that represents your terror. The heartbeat tells you when the killer is near.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
238 supporters
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trickedboon
No, but you can choose to hide inside a locker (though you can see outside of the locker).
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BriarRosePatch
One of the characters is a ghost, who is designed with a pillow covering her head in reference to suffocation.
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
108 supporters
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S0L3SURVIV0R
The Trickster curses when being stunned by a pallet. However the most extreme it gets is “motherfucker”
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Is there shakey cam?
272 supporters
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BriarRosePatch
The player controls the camera, and can make it as shakey as they please.
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6
Are there flashing lights or images?
354 supporters
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23
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BriarRosePatch
The doctor has an ability to electrify people, which results in your screen flashing static until you can remove this status effect. Attempting to remove it can result in more flashing static.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
141 supporters
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5
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ShellChiki
Maybe if this counts idk but The Trickster will sometimes look back at the screen and wink as if he's winking at the player (personally I like it but if this would bother you I hope this helps as a warning)
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Pregnancy
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No
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Yes
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Is there childbirth?
276 supporters
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No
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Anonymous
no, however one of the killers is a parasitic twin and so when the adult twin lets the parasite out,(tw if even the mention will put you off)
it looks like a baby jumping out of her stomach, so you just have to judge if that sounds too close to it for you.
it looks like a baby jumping out of her stomach, so you just have to judge if that sounds too close to it for you.
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Prejudice
Is there hate speech?
417 supporters
Yes
9
No
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Raccaine
The character Sally Smithson, more commonly referred to as The Nurse, has additional lore through the Tome system in which she and other characters say hateful things in regards to mentally ill and disabled patients.
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Yes
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7
Are there homophobic slurs?
591 supporters
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1
No
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Anon149
The post-match chat is heavily moderated, but sometimes stuff slips through. You have the option to report if this happens. Also the usernames of your teammates aren't moderated, but you can report them through Steam.
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Are there fat jokes?
449 supporters
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2
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FandomLover
The clown is considered a fat character but this is not joked about or mentioned.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
522 supporters
Yes
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BriarRosePatch
The majority of the killers fall into the “mentally ill” horror tropes, and one of the locations is an asylum.
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Does the black guy die first?
273 supporters
Yes
5
No
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BriarRosePatch
You can play as a black character, and it is possible that you may be the first to die, but it is not an intentional or scripted event.
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No
22
Does an LGBT person die?
640 supporters
Yes
3
No
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JennaLafontaine
No characters in the game have confirmed sexualities or transgender identities.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
719 supporters
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2
No
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BriarRosePatch
Survivor players often “t-bag” the killer as a joke which is in reference to a sexual activity, but it is more of a joke or a taunt than anything truly sexual.
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FandomLover
There are no incesturous relationships.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
172 supporters
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0
No
3
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d1zzy
some ppl in the community make fun of male grunts of pain for being "submissive" though!
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
536 supporters
Yes
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No
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PigRidingZombie
It is an endless game of cat and mouse you die you go back in you escape you go back in
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
71 supporters
Yes
3
No
19
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parathingum
one of the playable killers (the clown) has a santa claus cosmetic set.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
189 supporters
Yes
5
No
12
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becquerei
A car crashes into a tree in the unlockable cutscene for Nea Karlson in Tome 5.
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No
20
Does a plane crash?
126 supporters
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1
No
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Saraza
On the new RPD map you can find a burning helicopter on the roof that has clearly crashed, but you don't see this happening.
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Violence
Yes
0
No
22
Is there blood/gore?
546 supporters
Yes
32
No
0
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BriarRosePatch
The entire purpose of the game is to either attempt to kill other players, or avoid being killed. Blood and gore are main mechanics of the game, and if that is troublesome the game should be avoided because there is no way to avoid this mechanic.
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Does someone drown?
272 supporters
Yes
3
No
18
4
kensheda
In The Artist’s backstory, her little brother Matias falls into a creek & drowns.
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Is there gun violence?
232 supporters
Yes
23
No
3
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DialgaMatthews
One killer, The Deathslinger wields a rifle that can fire out a chain. No actual bullets are seen but when playing as a survivor against him, a loud bang can be heard across the map
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