The Last of Us Part II Remastered

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
AdventureHorrorPost-apocalyptic
🏆 The Game Awards 2020 — Game of the Year

What's in it

Violence graphic & gore
High

Realistic firearm, bow, and improvised-melee combat against human enemies and infected creatures, with heavy blood, gunshot wounds, and gore.

Dark themes graphic
High

A sustained story of grief and revenge including the graphic beating death of a major character and depicted interrogations.

Sexual content strong
High

A consensual sex scene between two characters is shown as clothed simulation with movement and sound.

Language strong
High

Strong profanity including 'fuck' is frequent throughout the dialogue.

Nudity partial/artistic
Moderate

Brief partial nudity, including bare torsos, appears during an intimate scene.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Characters drink alcohol and smoke marijuana on screen; no gameplay effect from use.

Horror & psychological frightening
Moderate

Survival-horror encounters with infected that hunt the player through dark spaces, with tension and startle moments.

Torture depicted
Moderate

Violent interrogations are depicted, and a captured character is beaten and tortured on screen.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

High-caliber and explosive weapons dismember bodies, and gory close-up wounds are shown.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Guard dogs can be fought and killed in combat and animals are hunted.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

The Last of Us Part II Remastered is a story-driven, third-person action-adventure set in a post-apocalyptic United States, following two characters caught in a cycle of revenge after a killing. Players explore ruined environments and use firearms, a bow, and improvised melee weapons alongside stealth to fight both human enemies and fungus-infected creatures. Combat is realistic and bloody, with dismemberment from powerful weapons, and the game depicts torture, mutilated bodies, and a brutal on-screen death. It contains frequent strong profanity, alcohol and marijuana use, a clothed sex scene with brief partial nudity, and survival-horror sequences in which infected hunt the player.

How it's framed

The game frames its violence as costly rather than triumphant, deliberately switching control between two enemies so the player enacts and then suffers the same cycle of retaliation, and it lingers on the grief and damage that revenge causes rather than rewarding it.

Details

Developer
Naughty Dog
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released
2024
Metacritic 90critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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