Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

This is a collection of puzzle-adventure games in which players follow characters attempting to escape from mysterious settings. As players solve environmental puzzles and interact with fellow captives, their decisions trigger various cutscenes, some of which include brief acts of violence: a character shot in the head; a man attacked with an axe; a character cutting himself with a scalpel. Blood-splatter effects and blood pools are sometimes depicted. Some of the dialogue contains sexual material/innuendo (e.g., “Not like I'm hoping to get my face sandwiched between a girl's bare thighs,” “Just leave me and Luna out of your sick fantasies, you creep,” “[A]re you trying to get me to take my clothes off?” and “Can you, like . . . kind of slide it down into your cleavage . . .”). Pharmaceutical drugs are a central part of the plotline, and references to other illicit substances occur during various scenes: “I dunno, it's pretty enjoyable with a little pot”; “You must be really desperate to get high”; “You must've done a lot of drugs to look like that at twenty-two.”). The words “f**k,” “sh*t,” and “a*shole” appear in the dialogue.