The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

This is a survival-horror adventure game in which players assume the roles of military operatives trying to survive underground and defeat hostile creatures. Players can interact with environmental elements and make action/dialogue choices that influence the story progression/outcome. Some choices lead to depictions of intense violence: a soldier shot in the head; a man impaled by a spike; a woman setting herself on fire; monsters slashing, stabbing, and crushing victims. Some cutscenes depict decapitated heads, burned/mutilated bodies and crushed skulls. Large blood splatters and pools are depicted as characters are injured/killed. The game contains a sequence in which soldiers make some suggestive/sexual jokes (e.g., semen jokes; a phone-sex reference; promiscuity of a character's mother; an implication of incest; and dialogue such as "Only one place I let a woman boss me around like that…And that's between the sheets.”). One sequence depicts soldiers uncovering a cache of heroin bricks; game text also contains occasional references to psilocybin mushrooms. The words “f**k” and “sh*t” are heard in the game.