Astral Chain

Moderate overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — intense
AdventureRPGSci-fi

What's in it

Violence realistic
Moderate

Fast, stylized melee and ranged combat against interdimensional monsters (chimeras) and some human foes, with blood effects but no dismemberment or gore.

Dark themes intense
Moderate

A dystopian near-future where humanity's survivors face an existential invasion, with corruption, civilian casualties, and character deaths driving the plot.

Language moderate
Moderate

Occasional profanity appears in cutscene and mission dialogue.

Substances referenced
Low

Alcohol is referenced and present in the game's civilian settings alongside the story's fictional matter-corruption drug themes.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

Grotesque, unsettling monster designs and warped Astral Plane environments create moments of dread without sustained horror.

Crime & lawlessness crime depicted
Low

The player is a police detective investigating crimes, disappearances, and a criminal underworld across the city.

Sexual content suggestive
Low

Some suggestive dialogue and character presentation among the task-force cast; nothing explicit.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Astral Chain is a single-player action-adventure game in which you play a rookie officer on a special police task force defending a future megacity from monstrous interdimensional invaders. You fight alongside a chained 'Legion' familiar in fast, flashy sword-and-melee combat against creatures called chimeras and the occasional human criminal, and between battles you investigate crime scenes, question witnesses, and solve cases. The action is stylized but includes some blood, moderate profanity, references to alcohol, and a bleak dystopian premise involving people being corrupted and consumed by the invading threat.

How it's framed

The game frames you as a lawful protector fighting to save civilians from an existential monster invasion, casting the violence as heroic defense and the detective work as restoring order; its darker themes of corruption and loss serve a serious sci-fi drama rather than glorifying the content.

Details

Developer
PlatinumGames
Publisher
Nintendo
Released
2019-08-30
Metacritic 87critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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