Portal with RTX

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — mild
AdventurePuzzleSci-fi

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Automated turrets fire on the player and the player can be killed or use hazards on the turrets and a hostile AI, with no blood or gore.

Dark themes mild
Low

A homicidal AI narrator taunts the player with threats of death and the player incinerates a friendly cube companion, all played with dry black comedy.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Portal with RTX is a free ray-traced remaster of the 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal, in which you solve physics-based test chambers using a gun that opens linked portals between surfaces. There is no gore, sexual content, or bad language. The mild edge comes from the story: a sarcastic, homicidal artificial intelligence guides and threatens you through the sterile lab, and one puzzle asks you to drop a friendly companion cube into an incinerator, all framed as deadpan dark comedy. It is single-player with no chat or online features.

How it's framed

The game frames its menace through humor rather than shock: the danger and the AI's death threats are presented as bleak comedy, and the puzzle-solving itself is nonviolent problem-solving with no reward for harm.

Details

Developer
Lightspeed Studios™
Publisher
NVIDIA
Released
Dec 8, 2022

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