No dogs die on screen, but in an email in episode 2 you read that the mill from episode 1 was actually a puppy mill and a fire burned it all down, dogs included. There is a puppy later, and that dog is fine.
Chloe's mother's boyfriend is emotionally and mentally abusive. Rachel's father lies to her for most of her life and is involved in loud arguments with her, as well as attempts to get a hit on her birth mother.
The addiction is to heroine. There is also a lot of stigma towards the person who is addicted, such as notions that she's not a "safe person" to be around, as well as a dangerous/bad mother
There’s a section where you’re instructed to select dialogue options where Chloe demeans a Samoan man for having a cultural flower pattern on his motorcycle and make insults at the perception of this being “feminine.”
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infrequent suggestive dialogue and writing, such as: a joke about losing the v-card, visual of & mentions of condoms, writing in a journal about masturbation, and a fairly long/ passionate kiss scene between the main characters. nothing stronger than these mentions.
Chloe gets daydreams where she imagines herself talking to her father, who died in a car crash. One of her daydreams includes the actual crash, while another has it set as a stage-play.
Chloe's father died in a car accident where he was hit by a truck. Through flashbacks Chloe experiences throughout the game, his death is relived. From intricate detail in the car with the truck, to more abstract where his death is reenacted on a stage with no car or truck, but sound, lights, and blood spatter.