Beyond: Two Souls

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Language — strong
AdventureModern/RealisticSci-fi

What's in it

Suicide & self-harm graphic / interactive
High

In one mission the player can psychically compel a guard to take his own life, and suicide recurs as a theme.

Language strong
High

Strong profanity appears in tense and emotional dialogue.

Violence realistic
Moderate

Realistic hand-to-hand fights, gunfire, and military combat against human enemies, with blood but no dismemberment; Aiden can supernaturally strangle or throw people.

Nudity partial/artistic
Moderate

A controllable shower scene shows the protagonist partially nude with no explicit detail.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Jodie drinks alcohol, and a homeless-arc chapter shows people drinking and using drugs while living rough.

Dark themes intense
Moderate

Heavy material runs throughout: childhood experimentation on a psychic girl, homelessness, grief, isolation, and death.

Horror & psychological frightening
Moderate

Ghostly entities, a menacing spirit world, and jump-scare moments create dread, especially in a haunted-house and an 'Infraworld' sequence.

Crime & lawlessness player commits crime
Moderate

The protagonist goes on the run and carries out covert operations such as breaking into an embassy and evading law enforcement.

Occult & ritual occult ritual depicted
Moderate

A dinner-party séance is staged in which the spirit entity contacts and speaks through the living.

Sexual violence depicted
Moderate

A bar sequence depicts men attempting to assault the protagonist before the spirit violently intervenes.

Sexual content innuendo
Moderate

A consensual romantic encounter with a partner is implied and fades to black, alongside a flirtatious date scene.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Beyond: Two Souls is a story-driven, cinematic action-adventure that follows Jodie Holmes across fifteen years of her life while she is bound to Aiden, an invisible spirit the player can also control to move through walls, possess or strangle people, shield her, or contact the dead. Gameplay is mostly guided exploration, dialogue choices, and quick reaction prompts during chases and fights, with player decisions altering how scenes and the ending play out. The game contains realistic violence and gunfire with blood, strong language, drinking and drug references, a partial-nudity shower scene, an implied intimate encounter, and mature subject matter including experimentation on a child, homelessness, an attempted assault, and a scene where the player can cause a character's suicide, all wrapped in frequent paranormal and ghost content.

How it's framed

The game frames its supernatural abilities and violence through an emotional, character-first lens, presenting Jodie as a person shaped by trauma and dependence rather than a power fantasy; heavy scenes are treated seriously, and many outcomes—including whether Jodie takes brutal revenge or walks away, or whether a guard lives or dies—are left to the player's choices rather than endorsed by the narrative.

Details

Developer
Quantic Dream
Publisher
Sony Computer Entertainment
Released
2013 (PC 2019)
Metacritic 70critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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