VRChat

Intense overall intensity

Highest flag: Nudity — full

MMOSandboxSimulation

What's in it

Sexual content explicit

High

User-created avatars and worlds host erotic roleplay and sexual animation scripts, concentrated in adult instances that require age verification to enter.

Nudity full

High

User-created avatars include fully nude models with detailed skin textures circulating in the ecosystem.

Substances depicted

Moderate

Some user-run spaces are built around drinking or drug use, and avatars are shown consuming alcohol on screen.

Horror & psychological frightening

Moderate

Horror is a common user-created world genre that actively frightens through dark settings, pursuit, and jump scares.

Violence cartoon/stylized

Low

Some user-made worlds are combat or shooting minigames with stylised fighting; injury and blood are not depicted.

Spending cosmetic purchases

Low

A VRChat Plus subscription and a credit-based marketplace sell cosmetic profile features and access to premium avatars.

Spending pressure optional

Low

Purchases are optional cosmetic and convenience features, and nothing gates access to the platform.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersDirect messagesUser-created contentStranger friend requestsOff-platform contactGifting / tradingReal-money spending

What it is

VRChat is a free-to-play online social platform, built mainly for virtual-reality headsets but also playable with a mouse and keyboard or on mobile. Players move through thousands of user-created 'worlds' as custom 3D avatars and talk with others by voice and text. Almost all of what a player sees is made by other users rather than the developer: worlds range from quiet social lounges and performance venues to combat minigames and horror experiences with jump scares, and avatars are uploaded by users without pre-screening. Because of this, content varies widely and can include fully unclothed avatars, spaces built around simulated sexual activity, and worlds themed around drinking or drug use, all of which are findable alongside ordinary hangout spaces. The platform provides safety tools such as hiding others' avatars, a trust system, and ID-verified age-gated instances, but avatars and worlds are not curated before they go live. It is monetised through an optional VRChat Plus subscription and a purchasable Credits currency used for cosmetic avatars and some in-world features.

How it's framed

VRChat presents itself as an open creation-and-socialising platform and does not editorialise the content its users make; the experience is defined by whichever worlds and avatars a player chooses to enter. Safety and age-gating features exist, but there is no pre-publication review of user content, so mature material sits in the same catalogue as everything else and is reached by browsing rather than being flagged.

Details

Developer: VRChat Inc.
Publisher: VRChat Inc.
Released: Feb 1, 2017

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