Luigi's Mansion 3

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Horror & psychological — spooky
AdventureParty/CasualPuzzle

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Cartoon, bloodless combat in which Luigi stuns comic ghosts with a flashlight and vacuums them up with a suction device; no injury or gore.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

A lighthearted haunted-hotel theme with cartoon ghosts, dim corridors, and mild jump moments played for goofy scares rather than dread.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Luigi's Mansion 3 is a family-oriented action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch in which Luigi explores a haunted hotel to rescue Mario and friends from King Boo. Gameplay centers on lighthearted puzzle-solving and capturing comic ghosts by stunning them with a flashlight and sucking them up with a specialized vacuum. The tone is playful and slapstick, with a spooky but non-threatening haunted setting; there is no blood, gore, foul language, or suggestive content. Online and local multiplayer let up to eight players team up or compete, but the game provides no built-in voice or text chat.

How it's framed

The game frames its ghost-catching as gentle, comedic heroism: Luigi is a timid but well-meaning hero, the ghosts are cartoonish rather than menacing, and scares are staged for humor. Its spooky trappings are purely atmospheric with no real-world occult or dark subject matter.

Details

Developer
Next Level Games
Publisher
Nintendo
Released
2019
Metacritic 86critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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