Bloodborne

Video Game • 2015 • Horror  

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This video game contains 68 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Anonymous
Werewolves in various stages of transformation are common enemies, as are rabid dogs.
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Unanswered Triggers
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umbravas
The game is extremely violent and several characters die regardless of gender. Women are not specifically singled out, but the overall atmosphere is grim and brutal. Gender, femininity, menstruation, and pregnancy are all major underlying themes. Potentially triggering events (spoilers):
-The Queen of Yharnam is depicted with her wrists bound and wearing a wedding dress. She is pregnant and covered in blood near her womb.
-A female character is a prostitute. If she survives until the game's third act, she gives birth to an eldritch creature.
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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nixdigo
Some enemies have open wounds in their throats, some of the dead bodies are bound and drained via their neck
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Is an infant abducted?
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Is someone choked?
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Abandonment
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DungeonManager
Father Gascoigne goes mad during the Hunt, and his wife leaves her daughter to find him. You can speak to her through the window at her house, and she asks you to find her parents.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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DungeonManager
It is implied that Father Gascoigne kills his wife in his madness.
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nixdigo
I think this question is very loaded considering how Bloodborne's story is about lies and uncovering them.
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Is a child abused?
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BenSalom
There's several eldritch alien babies you can kill, though they don't really look like babies.
Especially not the Orphan of Kos, who is newborn but also looks like an old man.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
3 supporters
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Anonymous
The magicked blood used as a health potion can canonically also be drank to get inebriated, but you can't actually do this in-game.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Anonymous
Rotting horse carcasses are common setpeices.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Anonymous
Mutant crows are a common enemy.
Scourge-infected pigs are another.
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Are animals abused?
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Anonymous
Rotting horse carcasses are common setpeices.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Anon883
Dragon deez nuts
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Are there spiders?
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Anonymous
The boss Rom the Vacuous Spider is a huge, spider-like Great Old One. She also periodically summons a horde of spiders. These appear as regular enemies in the Nightmare of Mensis area.
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Are there snakes?
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ChristinaPaino
Forbidden woods has lots of snakes. Many are deformed. Giant snakes also appear.
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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You can unequip your weapon and karate chop the female bosses
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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nixdigo
There are many dead bodies bound in various non-sexual positions. You don't see anyone alive being bound
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Anonymous
Women are unwillingly impregnated by Eldritch Abominations. This usually happens by magic shennanigans instead of direct assault, but I'd say unwilling impregnation counts as sexual assault.
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Bodily Harm
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Anonymous
Bladed weaponry used in battle.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Anonymous
The Beggar is seen eating corpses.
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nixdigo
You can be crushed to death
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Anonymous
A flametrower and torch are equippable offhand weapons.
Firebombs appear as combat items.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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umbravas
Body horror features predominantly among various enemies. A beast plague transforms infected victims into horrifying creatures.
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Paracosm
One version of the bloodletting beast, found in the Lower Pthumeru Chalice (Layer 4) and the Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice (Layer 2) is headless, and the muscle inside of its neck is visible.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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ChristinaPaino
Some hanged corpses are seen in the fishing hamlet area of the DLC
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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CS_Leko
If the player is killed by a certain enemy during a certain part of the game, it is implied that they are actually knocked unconscious. During a scene from the player's POV, they awaken while being dragged in a cloth bag to a new area.
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Anonymous
The Church Giant's Stomp attack drives its tibias out through the top of their knees.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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luobinghe
Adelle jumps to her death. It is offscreen but you do find her corpse.
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Paracosm
Beasts with multiple/too many eyes are fought commonly late in the game, and though there is no detailed eye gore, this can still be upsetting to somebody with trypophobia or a fear of things with too many eyes.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Anonymous
Father Gasçoine's daughter Violet can be eaten by a giant pig or be tortured to death in medical experiments, depending on player choice (offscreen). When her sister Adelle finds out about this, she jumps to her death.
The final boss is an undead stillborn Great Old One and its nurse.
(Old Hunters DLC) The boss Orphan of Kos is a newborn eldritch abomination that must be fought and killed
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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umbravas
Spoilers: If you pursue Eileen the Crow's questline, she dies at the end of it.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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jinxjpg
Hunters are often described as 'blood drunk' and go mad/turn into beasts from overuse of the old blood
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
The first boss is a preist by the name of Father Gasçoine, who you meet after he has succumbed to the Scourge and killed his wife. He has two daughters, Violet and Adelle.
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BenSalom
*You* get kidnapped.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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ChristinaPaino
In Cainhurst Castle
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Are there clowns?
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Are there jumpscares?
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Ninjaganon
ehh sorta but they're not that scary, its just enemies appearing from behind corners
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DungeonManager
There is a living human sized doll NPC, but she looks mostly human and is not an enemy
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DreaPuckett
The entire game is triggering. The whole of the what area is teeth itchingly bad but there are a dozen or more monsters and sequences that either rub up against trypophobia or outright are there to trigger. Miyazaki gravitated towards trypophobia triggers for squick factor in all of his games.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
Is someone eaten?
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Caitlin1998m
You may come across an npc eating corpses in the forbidden woods. Also in the fishing hamlet there are giant whale enemies that have an attack which will swallow your character whole.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone vomit?
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voidkatzen
The larger enemies with blankets on them will v* graphically onto the player if they catch you in a grab.
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Is there farting?
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Does someone spit?
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ChristinaPaino
Giant spitting cobras
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Medical
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Anon883
In the DLC, the Research Hall is a mental institution.
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Paracosm
Electric attacks are used, but not in a medical setting.
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jinxjpg
An NPC is implied to have a terminal illness, but it isn't clarified what illness
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Anonymous
The basic healing item is a syrette of magicked blood the player character injects into their thigh.
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Anonymous
The game starts in a back-alley clinic after getting a dodgy blood transfusion.
Iosefka's Clinic.
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Mental Health
Is autism misrepresented?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Anonymous
Hoo boy, strap in everyone...
Most enemies are mutated by the Scourge, a werewolf epidemic. One variant of werewolf is mutated to the point that it has exposed, rotten organs and a lower leg replacing its tail.
The Cramped Casket enemy is an appartment buildings worth of corpses all smooshed together from stuffing them into the same coffin and leaving them to rot in the street.
One enemy has its head mounted sideways and is infested with tapeworms.
The boss Brain of Mensis is a giant, undead brain studded with eyes.
On that note, "insight" is implied to grow eyes on the surface of the PC's brain. It's a pun you see...
The boss The One Reborn is a heap of fused, undead corpses used in a failed ritual intended to elevate mankind into Godhood, but resulted in, well, a heap of fused, undead corpses.
One boss is fought 3 times, becoming ever more decrepit as you do so. In the last fight, it's head has fallen off and been replaced by a parasitic worm.
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BenSalom
Debatably you can "self-harm" by pressing up on the D-pad. Doing this sacrifices HP for extra "blood bullets," with an accompanying blood mist effect.
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DungeonManager
More than an attempt, if Father Gascoigne's daughter is sent to either the Clinic or the Chapel, her older sister will throw herself from a ledge when she finds out her family is all dead.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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BluePlant
In a later level in the dlc, patients that were driven mad attack you on sight.
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Anonymous
The Beggar is seen eating corpses.
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Is there misophonia?
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tigrex
The sounds from the blood and gore could trigger someone and I think some enemies can be heard eating corpses? There's also an enemy with a machine gun that makes a really grating noise
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SPOILERS FOR LATE GAME CONTENT



In the Old Hunter's DLC, a character named Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower is shown slumped in a chair with a slit throat, though she does grab your wrist a begin speaking to you when you approach her. As you find her in an alternate plane of reality where several confirmed dead characters are "alive" and trapped as a form of punishment, it is heavily implied she killed herself only to become trapped also (possibly intentionally).
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Anonymous
The Frenzy status effect reduces the PC to a failing wreck.
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Paracosm
The chalice dungeons tend to be closed in and, in some places, tightly packed. Fortunately, the dungeons are entirely avoidable and are used mostly for grinding.
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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BluePlant
In one of the last levels of the game, you hear a baby constantly crying in the background.
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Is there screaming?
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nixdigo
The beast scream
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Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Pregnancy
Are there babies or unborn children?
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Are there abortions?
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Anonymous
Well, the Old Ones' inability to bear or beget viable offspring is a huge plot point, and the final boss is the undead remains of their latest attempt.
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SPOILERS FOR LATE GAME CONTENT


Not technically a peroson, but Kos, an Eldritch extraplaner being known as a "Great One," died for unknown reasons while pregnant, leading to a postmortem birth.
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Is there childbirth?
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luobinghe
Always off-screen but Arianna gives birth to an Eldritch baby if she survives long enough, and it is implied several women in the game get pregnant, including one you run into two or three times as an "apparition" of sorts.
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Anonymous
Weeeeellllll... the baby is a perfectly healthy starborne horror whose birth drove their mother gigglingly bonkers, but it's not a miscarriage... it is, however, vastly accelerated, taking about 6 hours from conception to birth.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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CS_Leko
"Fatty" is one of the words players can use to write messages, and can frequently be found next to passages that are too narrow for the player's character to enter.
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Is there aphobia?
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Is there hate speech?
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Myniko
There is a prostitue who serves both genders, and if you take blood from her in front of the religious lady too much, she will kill her
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Anonymous
The game is set in a central-European town with no POC except for the Player Character, IF you build them with dark skin.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Are there n-words?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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A character who is an old man in present day is shown to have had inappropriate obsessive feelings, most likely of a romantic nature, for a character who was his student when she was a young adult. Given that she has been dead for many years and he has an unnaturally prolonged lifespan, we do not know their relative ages during the period of their (one-sided) "relationship", but the visual ages of the character models could be seen as having a substantial age difference.
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Religious
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jinxjpg
A substantial part of the game surrounds a ministration called The Healing Church, with many themes and titles referencing a traditional Christian church
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Sex
Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there bestiality?
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Is there sexual content?
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Is there BDSM?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Anonymous
Progressive insanity
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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4
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
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Anonymous
Multiple endings, some happy some not.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
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Anonymous
The game is set in the mid/late 1800's.
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Does a car crash?
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Anonymous
The game is set in the mid/late 1800's.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Anonymous
Blood and gore are big plot elements. Blood from wounds, blood that heals, blood that freezes into jewels, blood that never clots offered in sacrifice.
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Anonymous
Guns are a common weapon. Used both by the player and enemies.
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