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Video Game • 2021 • Horror  

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This video game contains 32 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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MrCookieCrisps
The dog after the first half runs off before the monster gets to him.
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Unanswered Triggers
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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MrCookieCrisps
Antagonist monster, Maw, once in awhile appears to haunt the protagonist.
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Is there domestic violence?
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KamiSteele
The game's plot, especially its ending, may be deeply triggering to trauma survivors. Basically, the Maw exists because of Lily's childhood sexual abuse trauma, and the last scene has her tell the protagonist to kill her because the curse will only spread while she is still alive. While it's ambiguous whether Marianne does kill Lily or sacrifices herself, it's often interpreted as 'trauma survivors are lost causes and will only ever spread their trauma' ('you can't always save everyone', the game tells us). This is not helped by an earlier reveal that Lily's abuser is also revealed-- in depth-- to also have childhood trauma resulting from the Holocaust, loss of a loved one, and domestic violence, resulting in a monster of his own. It's clearly attempting a 'trauma often leads to more trauma' narrative, but it's generally agreed to be mishandled.
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MrCookieCrisps
There are scenes where the characters don’t know what is real or not.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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MrCookieCrisps
Prescription drugs
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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MrCookieCrisps
Pigs are shown slaughtered inhumanely.
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MrCookieCrisps
There are dead deer in the wilderness and pigs during a slaughter house scene.
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Are there snakes?
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MrCookieCrisps
There are tree trunks, like the ones in Jumanji, that slither like snakes.
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Are there bugs?
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TheLonelyFrog
Much of the imagery in the game centers around moths
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Assault
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UghWhatNow
Though the assault itself is not depicted directly, the game has in part to do with the trauma of child sexual abuse by a close family friend. It it referred multiple times.
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Bodily Harm
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MrCookieCrisps
You have to cut skin-sewn panels and doors that react realistically and do spurt blood.
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MrCookieCrisps
One Game Over screen has the antagonist choking the protagonist to death and one cutscene has tree trunks tightening on the protagonist’s neck.
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Cheshire
Characters are trapped in a house on fire and are burned, but they survive. This isn't shown graphically
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Is there amputation?
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MrCookieCrisps
Character, Sadness, is missing her right arm and died of blood loss. However, her death and amputation themselves are not shown or heard.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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MrCookieCrisps
Heard and noose is shown, but person hung isn’t shown.
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MrCookieCrisps
Whenever protagonist, Marianne, goes to the dream world, she goes into a seizure-like state (depicted by the editing.)
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Is someone tortured?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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MrCookieCrisps
Parents died in a car crash, but isn’t shown.
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MrCookieCrisps
A house fire destroys everything including kid’s toys.
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UghWhatNow
**Spoilers**
The protagonist's father is taken and experimented on by the Nazis. AFTER his escape; though he leaves the protagonist at a hospital he keeps her sister who ends up being locked up indefinitely in an underground bunker where she's sexually assaulted by a family friend. SO while he doesn't directly "kidnap" his own daughter. Keeping prisoner, isn't an option, leaving this the best place.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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MrCookieCrisps
Protagonist is a medium and can see the afterlife.
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MrCookieCrisps
Only one jump scare.
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Is someone possessed?
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MrCookieCrisps
Monsters take control of their carriers.
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Gross
Is there audio gore?
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Medical
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MrCookieCrisps
Mentioned, but not shown.
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MrCookieCrisps
There is one used needle shown, but not being used.
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RoseRitonya
No, contrary to what the other comment states, the first half of the game takes place in an abandoned hotel, not a hospital.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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MrCookieCrisps
Sadness has panic attacks when asked about her past.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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MrCookieCrisps
Can be turned off
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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MrCookieCrisps
Sadness’ mom dies of an unmentioned cause, but it is hinted that she died giving birth due to her blaming her sister for her death.
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Prejudice
Are there usages of the n-word?
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TheLonelyFrog
There is a Nazi-aligned character and references are made to Jewish people being killed
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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