Censorship
Culture concept
Any tags describing any form of censorship, whether intended as censorship or not.
3
games
3platforms
USA:
* Nudity, even something simple as bare female breasts.
* Victimized black people, related to slavery (having any other race as victims is seemingly fine for them)
Germany:
* Killing humans (and red blood?), somehow related to Nazi Germany
Japan:
* Four fingers (related to Burakumin, a discriminated minority from feudal times but the expression still stands)
* Nudity, even something simple as bare female breasts.
* Victimized black people, related to slavery (having any other race as victims is seemingly fine for them)
Germany:
* Killing humans (and red blood?), somehow related to Nazi Germany
Japan:
* Four fingers (related to Burakumin, a discriminated minority from feudal times but the expression still stands)
This is a container group; its children are:
| Banned | (too short) | 1994 / 2017 | 19 games |
| Bloodless | Despite characters getting shot, stabbed, or otherwise mutilated, there's no blood. (too short) | 1975 / 2019 | 98 games |
| Censored | Edited for content, received alternate promotion or restricted release, in some way other that what the author(s) intended. | 1981 / 2018 | 158 games |
| Discolored blood | For whatever reason, the blood of Humans and Earthborne animals is something else than red. (too short) | 1993 / 2013 | 22 games |
| Hit flash | When characters hit, damage, or otherwise clobber each other, player can see a bright flash of light (or other fancy effect that serves the same purpose) at the point of impact. | 2006 / 2017 | 23 games |
| Language filter | Filters used language, likely to censor out player use of profanities. Usually optional for those who do not get offended as easily. | 2001 / 2017 | 54 games |
| Featureless nudity | Nude characters have a notable lack of visible genitalia or even nipples. (too short) | 1985 / 2017 | 21 games |
| Parental controls | (too short) | 1991 / 2014 | 13 games |
| Self-censorship | Contains certain potentially offensive material, but has been "sufficiently" obscured, such as through mosaic blur or only hearing the sounds of the activity rather than seeing it. | 1991 / 2020 | 25 games |
| Woundless | Getting shot, stabbed, punched, etc. leaves no visible marks. (too short) | 2001 / 2014 | 9 games |