Battlefield 1

Moderate overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — intense
HistoricalModern/RealisticShooter

What's in it

Violence realistic
Moderate

Realistic first-person warfare with rifles, machine guns, artillery, flamethrowers, and melee kills against human soldiers, with blood effects but no dismemberment or lingering gore.

Dark themes intense
Moderate

The campaign dwells on the brutality and loss of the Great War, including young and inexperienced soldiers dying in the trenches.

Language moderate
Moderate

Scattered profanity in the single-player campaign dialogue and among soldiers under fire.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersStranger friend requests

What it is

Battlefield 1 is a first-person military shooter set during World War I. It features a set of short single-player campaign stories following different soldiers, plus large-scale online multiplayer battles where teams of players fight for control points using infantry, tanks, aircraft, and other vehicles across destructible maps. The core content is realistic period warfare: gunfire, explosions, flamethrowers, poison gas, and close-quarters melee kills against enemy soldiers, shown with blood but without heavy gore or dismemberment. The campaign leans into the grim human cost of the war. Online play includes open voice and text chat with strangers, so unfiltered language from other players is possible.

How it's framed

The game frames its combat as historical warfare and presents the campaign stories with a somber, memorial tone that emphasizes the suffering and loss of World War I rather than glorifying it; multiplayer is competitive team-based combat scored by kills and objective captures.

Details

Developer
DICE
Publisher
Electronic Arts
Released
Jun 11, 2020

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