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FOR HONOR

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Spending — real-money purchases
FightingHistorical

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

Sustained melee combat with medieval weapons against human warriors; hits draw blood sprays and combat is frequently bloody across PvP and the campaign.

Spending real-money purchases
High

Real-money currency (Steel) can be purchased to unlock cosmetics, gear, and new heroes.

Spending pressure pay-to-win or energy gating
High

New heroes are sold in a paid early-access window before becoming available for earned currency, creating limited-time buy-in pressure.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

Player-triggered execution animations depict decapitations and bodies being cut apart on downed human opponents.

Dark themes mild
Low

The story centers on endless, grinding faction warfare and a warlord who orchestrates suffering to keep the wars going.

Language mild
Low

Occasional mild profanity in the story campaign's dialogue.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersDirect messagesStranger friend requestsReal-money spending

What it is

For Honor is a third-person melee combat game in which players take the role of medieval warriors — knights, vikings, samurai, and other factions — clashing in a story campaign and in team-based online battles. Combat is close-quarters and bloody, built around directional sword, axe, and spear duels, and players can trigger gory execution finishers that decapitate or dismember defeated opponents. The setting is grim warfare with a story about factions being goaded into perpetual bloodshed. It is heavily multiplayer, with open voice and text chat alongside strangers, and it sells a real-money currency used for cosmetics, gear, and newly released heroes.

How it's framed

The game frames its violence as heroic warrior combat and rewards skillful killing with cinematic finishers, while the campaign presents war itself and its instigator in a critical, cautionary light rather than glorifying the manipulation that fuels the fighting.

Details

Developer
Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher
Ubisoft
Released
Feb 13, 2017
Metacritic 76critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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