Astro Bot

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Violence — cartoon/stylized
AdventurePlatformerSci-fi
🏆 21st British Academy Games Awards — Best Game🏆 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards — Game of the Year🏆 The Game Awards 2024 — Game of the Year

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Cartoonish, bloodless platforming combat where the robot hero punches and spin-attacks comical alien and robot enemies that pop apart harmlessly.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Astro Bot is a colorful 3D platformer built to celebrate PlayStation's 30th anniversary. Playing as a tiny robot, you jump, hover, punch, and swim across dozens of imaginative galaxy levels to rescue hundreds of lost robot friends, gather parts for a spaceship, and defeat a goofy alien villain. Combat is limited to bopping cartoonish enemies that burst apart with no blood or harm. There is no bad language, no sexual or scary content, no substances, and no spending or gambling. It is a single-player experience with no online chat or interaction with strangers.

How it's framed

The game is framed as a lighthearted, heroic rescue adventure with a cheerful tone throughout. Conflict is playful and slapstick, enemies are comical machines rather than realistic foes, and the overall mood is celebratory nostalgia for PlayStation history.

Details

Developer
Team Asobi
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released
2024-09-06
Metacritic 94critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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