Sifu
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic close-quarters Kung Fu combat where the player punches, kicks, throws, and uses improvised or bladed weapons against human enemies, with blood on hits but no dismemberment or gore focus.
A nightclub level shows a party and drug-den atmosphere with alcohol and implied recreational drug use in the environment.
The story centers on grief, a father's murder, and an obsessive quest for revenge, with a repeated cycle of dying, aging, and mortality tied to a magical pendant.
Enemies operate as gangs running criminal fronts such as drug and trafficking operations shown across the levels.
Occasional mild profanity in enemy taunts and story dialogue.
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What it is
Sifu is a single-player third-person kung fu brawler set in modern China, where you play a martial artist hunting down the five people who murdered their father and raided their school. Gameplay is fast, physical hand-to-hand combat: you chain strikes, parry, throw enemies, and improvise with environmental objects and picked-up weapons against waves of human fighters. A central hook is a magical pendant that revives you each time you fall while aging your character several years, so death is woven into the story of pursuing revenge across a handful of interconnected levels. The main content is repeated, impactful martial-arts violence against people, with weapons, some blood, and a grim revenge narrative; a drug-den environment appears in one level and there is occasional mild language. There is no online play, chat, or in-app spending.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a personal quest for vengeance against the killers of the protagonist's father, and it repeatedly foregrounds the cost of that path: each defeat ages the hero closer to death, and the story raises the question of whether revenge or forgiveness is the wiser end. Enemies are depicted as members of a criminal group, and combat is presented as brutal but stylized martial-arts action rather than gratuitous gore.
Details
- Developer
- Sloclap
- Publisher
- Sloclap
- Released
- Mar 28, 2023
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