Unrestricted violence

Other (objects, etc.) theme

Player is free to hurt and kill anyone, from random pedestrians to puppies.

105
games
19
platforms
Implied: (enforceable)
* Neutral NPCs

Related:
* Friendly fire
Generally any games where the player can harm civilians and others who are completely outside the depicted conflict itself. No immortal characters who can't be harmed, no forced weapons free zones, no automatic non-hostile recognition (turning off attacks when facing them) and so forth.

Only for games where actual third parties exist.

Some games may even go out of their way to throw these third parties in the line of fire intentionally (such as in Carmageddon series).

This also implies that there's no unrealistic penalty on doing any harm to anyone outside the conflict.

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Parent groups

Realism, Violence Concepts

Games by year

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The first Unrestricted violence video game was released in 1981.

Ubisoft, Interplay and Rockstar Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 36
Linux 13
PS3 12
X360 12
Mac OS X 6
Mac OS Classic 4
Xbox One 4
PS4 4
MS-DOS 4
32X 1
N64 1
PS 1
GBA 1
Android 1
Nascom 1
SNES 1
Switch 1
NES 1
Apple II E 1

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