This is a role-playing game in which players live the life of a high school student: homecoming kings, the pursuit of good grades, cars, football. Choices are made at every turn (via a text-based menu screen), as players interact with brief still-screen vignettes that progress the storyline. A handful of these vignettes include suggestive dialogue (3% of total gameplay): "No one's kissed me like that since that CPR class"; "But then, just as it gets steamy, [she] sharply pulls away"; and "Oh yeah . . . keep going . . . Bite my ear, you saucy trumpet!" Characters also gossip about "hooking up" and "once-in-a-lifetime make-out opportunities," but there are never any depictions of kissing or said "opportunities." And in one sequence, a boyfriend and girlfriend end their date with conversation and sleep: "Sometimes, when it's dark . . . I get scared" and "Shh. Shh. Just get some sleep." The game also includes a joke about serial killers (victims being "pretty female Chihuahuas"), an initiation into a mosh pit, and a critique on horror cinema ("I am sooooo not into these torture flicks!").
Platforms
Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DSi
Suggestive Themes, Violent References
No Interactive Elements
Rating Summary
Surviving High School is rated E10+ for Everyone 10+ by the ESRB with Suggestive Themes and Violent References.