Ghostwire: Tokyo
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Spoken dialogue between the boy and the spirit possessing him includes moderate profanity.
The player fights supernatural Visitors in first-person using elemental attacks and a core-extraction takedown; blood appears but there is no dismemberment or gore.
The city's population has been turned into trapped spirits, a named character lies comatose from a house fire, and grief, death and loss drive the story on screen.
The game uses unsettling yokai imagery, frightening enemy designs and tense stalking sequences drawn from Japanese ghost lore intended to scare the player.
An occultist antagonist summons supernatural entities through on-screen ritual, and the narrative centers on esoteric spellcraft using Kuji-kiri hand gestures.
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What it is
Ghostwire: Tokyo is a first-person action-adventure set in a supernatural version of Tokyo, where the population has vanished into a deadly fog and ghosts drawn from Japanese folklore roam the streets. Playing as Akito, a young man kept alive by a spirit called KK who possesses him, you use elemental hand-gesture magic to fight these entities, explore an open-world city, and cleanse cursed gates while unravelling why everyone disappeared and rescuing your comatose sister. The content includes supernatural combat with some blood but no dismemberment, unsettling horror imagery and frightening enemy designs, an occultist who summons demons through ritual, heavy themes of death and grief, moderate profanity, and some suggestive framing. It is single-player with no online features and no purchases.
How it's framed
Combat is framed as freeing or purifying trapped spirits rather than killing people, with Akito acting to save his sister and the city's captured souls. The occult content is presented as the antagonist's doing — a summoner whose ritual caused the disaster — while the player's own magic is positioned as the means to undo it.
Details
- Developer
- Tango Gameworks
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- Mar 24, 2022
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