Archetype Arcadia

Archetype Arcadia is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB with Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, and Violence. This is a visual novel in which players follow the story of siblings attempting to survive a virtual-reality game in a post-apocalyptic future. As players follow the story, they can make dialogue/action choices that influence the narrative. Some sequences depict audio of characters stabbed or choked. A handful of still-frame sequences depict violence and blood-stained environments and/or effects: a character biting a bloodstained corpse; a room of pods with large bloodstains; a child witnessing the murder of relatives; a character slowly melting, with his limbs falling off; two characters cutting each other's necks, with blood dripping. The dialogue describes further instances of violence: “…She was stabbed, slashed, impaled, and gouged”; “their entrails exposed, and their flesh scattered about”; “I hear a gushy mushy sound…The sound of blood spurting. The sound of flesh rending”; “…[He] squeezed my throat tight…”). The text also references suggestive material (e.g., “…[M]aybe you'd like to feel my body a bit more closely”; “…[T]hose aren't boobs. Those are bones”; “…I've never seen breasts this plump”; “Let's feel each other more deeply”; “You want to touch me, don't you?”). The word “sh*t” appears in the game.