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* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' has options to change enemy carnage from bloody red chunks of meat to [[SillinessSwitch floral blood with mushroom giblets]]. The recent HD remake also allows for enemies to erupt giant pieces of candy whilst bleeding glitter.

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* ''Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot'' has an option to turn off the more sexually suggestive voice clips.
* ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'' allowed the bleeping of certain profane words to be turned on or off.

* The American release of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' censored the copious nudity present in the original European version. CD Projekt Red released a Director's Cut patch that restores it.

* Parodied on the ''SaturdayNightLive'' fake commercial for an online filter that keeps teenagers from letting their parents know about their personal lives when they post them on Facebook ("The 'Damn It, My Mom is on Facebook' Filter") which turns such status updates as "There isn't enough beer in the world for me to listen to Glenn Beck's holy roller B.S." to "Boy, do I need new dungarees" and alters incriminating pictures (turning a drunk girl at a party into a ventriloquist dummy, turning a bong into a saxophone, and putting [[DigitalBikini digital clothes]] on nudity).

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the command-line option "-sillygibs" which, instead of de-activating blood and gibs, replaces it with [[SillinessSwitch goofy clocks, springs, cheeseburgers, balloon animals, unicycles, etc]]. This is actually a holdover from the German version, where (due to Germany's [[CensorshipBureau strict laws]] on depiction of violence in media) it is on by default and cannot be deactivated. Equipping the Pyrovision Goggles (or equipping Pyro with a Rainblower or any other Pyroland weapon) will also do this too.
* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' has the option of skipping the infamous "No Russian" level.

* ''{{VideoGame/Bulletstorm}}'' has an option for alternate, slightly less profane dialogue.

* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' gives the option to turn all bullet firing guns into paintball shooters. This turns the blood and environmental bullet holes into multicoloured paint. In addition, there is a primitive language censor. All sentences containing a swear are entirely blanked out, instead of merely bleeping the offending word.

* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' allowed to enable or disable gibs, among other things.

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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has a profanity option (if only "because it's funnier" with censorship). In addition to [[SoundEffectBleep bleeping out every swear word]], it also covers Eddie's middle finger with the "Parental Advisory: Explicit content" logo during the next to final boss.

* The Genesis version of the first ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' had a button code that undoes the censorship, giving it an edge over the SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem version.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the command-line option "-sillygibs" which, instead of de-activating blood and gibs, replaces it with [[SillinessSwitch goofy clocks, springs, cheeseburgers, balloon animals, unicycles, etc]]. This is actually a holdover from the German version, where (due to Germany's [[CensorshipBureau strict laws]] on depiction of violence in media) it is on by default and cannot be deactivated.

Adjustable Censorship is when you are given the option of turning mature content (usually violence, swearing, or sexual content) on or off. This usually happens in VideoGames, but other media, such as [=DVD=]s and websites, occasionally have such options. You may have an "On/Off" toggle or a slider that goes from "BloodlessCarnage" to "HighPressureBlood" to "{{Gorn}}".

* Some [=DVD=]s of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (particularly those featuring episodes made after the show was revived in 2005) have an audio option where the viewer can choose between listening to the censored TV version of the audio or the uncensored audio, which has bleeped out language uncensored. The censored version mostly has bleeps for words like "fuck" and "shit". Most of the show's dialogue edits, however, are the kind where they record two lines and pick the inoffensive line for TV and the original offensive line for DVD and/or AdultSwim. Those are not included on the DVD.

!!Examples:

'''Non video game examples''':

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'' & ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' both have options to tone down the swearing and gore used. Of course, this being ''Fallout'', there's a special trait called "Bloody Mess" that lets you turn ''up'' the gore as well.

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* The SegaGenesis version of ''TimeKillers'' features an option to set the violence level to "[[BloodlessCarnage No Blood]]", "Blood", "Dismember", or "[[OffWithHisHead Decapitate]]".

* Some [=DVD=]s of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (particularly those featuring episodes made after the show was revived in 2005) have an audio option where the viewer can choose between listening to the censored TV version of the audio (which mostly has bleeps for words like "fuck" and "shit"; most of ''Family Guy'''s dialogue edits are the kind where they record two lines and pick the inoffensive line for TV and the original offensive line for DVD and/or AdultSwim. Those are not included on the DVD) or the uncensored audio, which has bleeped out language uncensored.

* ''SoldierOfFortune'' allowed to enable or disable gibs, among other things.

* Some [=DVD=]s of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' have the option to turn off the censoring.

* The original ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' gave players the choice of disabling blood, which could only be re-activated by inputting a password.

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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has a profanity option. In addition to [[SoundEffectBleep bleeping out every swear word]], it also covers Eddie's middle finger with the "Parental Advisory: Explicit content" logo during the next to final boss.

* In the first ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' game, you could turn adult content on only if you correctly answered questions that were theoretically answerable by people old enough to view the content (or, these days, able to access Google).

* ''AssassinsCreedII'' and up have an option to turn off blood.

* In the first ''LeisureSuitLarry'' game, you could turn adult content on only if you correctly answered questions that were theoretically answerable by people old enough to view the content (or, these days, able to access Google).

* EddieIzzard [=DVDs=] always have an option for bleeped audio, since his acts are mostly family-friendly except for the copious swearing.