History MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness / VideoGames0To7

* ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden (2004)]]'' (All versions) [[note]] [Sometimes cartoonishly] Bloody decapitation, throat cutting, slicing of humans; dismemberment of fantastical beasts. [[/note]]
* ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2]]'' [[note]] Fantastical, simple dismemberment of humans and beasts with some blood splatter. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' [[note]] You can perform bloodless headshots on helmeted enemies. Otherwise level 2. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediSurvivor'' [[note]]Humanoid enemies can now be dismembered by lightsabers, along with non-humanoid creatures. No blood whatsoever, though.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' [[note]]Level 4 [[{{Bowdlerise}} when the blood color is changed to any color other than red]], which is enforced in the Mainland Chinese version.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' [[note]]Though some cutscenes and deaths reach a light 5. Many offscreen child death make this a harder 3. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/GatoRoboto'' [[note]] For when [[spoiler: Bark visibly bites out the final boss' throat but with no blood graphic injury detail]]. Otherwise a 2 for critters exploding into smoke upon death and robotic mini-bosses expressing exaggerated anguish as they die. All in 8-bit. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' [[note]] Caroonishly setting opponents on fire. Frenetic, over-the-top physical and fantastic combat between characters, no blood. Ridley's trailer in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' is worth a 4, for his crunchy killings of Mario and Mega Man shown in shadow. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Klax}'' [[note]] Similar to Tetris, you line up blocks that disappear. [[/note]]

* "VideoGame/{{Klax}}" [[note]] Similar to Tetris, you line up blocks that disappear. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaMash'' [[note]] Some characters non-graphically explode. Dragon boss slowly reduced to a skeleton over the corse of the battle with it, but the {{Retraux}} graphics make it much less violent than it sounds. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' [[note]] Chai can be set on fire. Otherwise a 2 for cyborg bosses fatally exploding. Combat is on level 1 with robots blowing up; though they do show a surpriisng level of sentience. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' [[note]]Extremely cartoony slapstick frequent throughout, including one instance of a BigBallOfViolence - intro cutscene shows Max pummelling a man with blood spurts coming out, but it's only shown in silhouette and the man in question turns out to be some kind of robot. Occasional implied off-screen death.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' [[note]]Ib and[=/=]or Garry can die in mamy, horrible ways, but it's almost all BloodlessCarnage. The pixelated graphics also heavily migitate the brutality.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' [[note]]Stylish splashes of blood coat the ground. Level 5 when the blood color is changed to anything but red.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' (1, ''Overdose'', and Switch version of ''G.O.R.E.'') [[note]] Some cutscenes show blood splattering on walls and floors. The latter doesn't have any blood but you still see a hole from a gunshot through a goons chest with some silhouetted bone visible. The gameplay of the first two is on level 5 with blood puffs and the latter replacing blood with blue "Seed" residue. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/AShortHike'' [[note]] Despite being about climbing a mountain, it is impossible to die in this game, with the player's punishment being falling onto a lower level of the mountain. [[note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' [[note]] Cell creatures break into meat chunks upon death. Child creatures can be killed. Dead civillian creatures. None of this is graphic though. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[note]]The average Neutral and Pacifist runs sit at around a Level 2 at their worst, but the Genocide Route involves wiping out entire populated areas, many of the times the victims have no hope of defeating you. The final boss of this run bleeds quite a bit too before death. If not for the pixel art style and all this being inflicted on non-humans that mostly dissolve into dust when killed, it would be higher. The Pacifist run has slightly gross body horror monsters.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' (1, ''Overdose'', and Switch version of ''G.O.R.E.'' [[note]] Some cutscenes show blood splattering on walls and floors. The latter doesn't have any blood but you still see a hole from a gunshot through a goons chest with some silhouetted bone visible. The gameplay of the first two is on level 5 with blood puffs and the latter replacing blood with blue "Seed" residue. [[/note]]

* "VideoGame/BarbarianTheUltimateWarrior" [[note]] For the low resolution, blood-spurting decapitations. [[/note]]

* "VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1" (1989) [[note]] For [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the player death animations,]] including being [[SpikesOfDoom skewered by a spike pit]] and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected by a trap.]] Some versions, including the NES and SNES versions [[BloodlessCarnage censor out all the blood,]] so those would get a 5 at worst. [[/note]]

* "VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1" [[note]] For [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the player death animations,]] including being [[SpikesOfDoom skewered by a spike pit]] and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected by a trap.]] Some versions, including the NES and SNES versions [[BloodlessCarnage censor out all the blood,]] so those would get a 5 at worst. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SurvivorFire'' [[note]] Atari2600 sprites; one of whom is a little girl; can die in a fire with no graphic detail. A very light 4. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic''

* ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica'' [[note]]A character gets killed with red blood spilling on the floor. One of the bosses take the form of a massive corpse of another character who is missing a left eye and full of gruesome looking injuries. A background character in the DLC campaign gets shot with a paintball gun, inflates like a balloon before exploding. It's thankfully held back by the chibi graphics and the fact that all of the aforementioned characters are mere copies of real people and not the real deal.[[/note]]

* VideoGame/{{Cathedral|2019}} [[note]] For the [[spoiler: Blood Garden]], which of course has blood dripping from the ceilings, staining the ground; worms tht burst into blood drops, and boss that is a pulsating tumor that explodes into blood droplets leaving behind a stain. Otherwise a 2. [[/note]]

* VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros1 [[note]] At one point Bowser gets chucked into a lava pit which non-graphically turns him into a skeleton. [[spoiler: He gets better.]] [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' [[note]] Caroonishly setting opponents on fire. Frenetic, over-the-top physical and fantastic combat between characters, no blood. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' [[note]] For what appears to be mild blood seen on the sprites of the Mondo Mole, Guardian Diggers and Plague Rat of Doom. Although the "Mu Training" sequence, which has Poo being repeatedly maimed, would give this game a much higher level if the damage was actually shown and wasn't symbolic. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/DeadOrSchool'' [[note]] Basic gibs and stylized blood splatters. Zombies have some non-gory exposed muscle.
* ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'' [[note]] Very bloody but undetailed shootings and dog maulings. [[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Sheepo}}'' [[note]] Some boss creatures get knocked unconscious by environmental hazards or their own attacks. Otherwise a 0 with no combat and the player warped to save points upon defeat.

* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'', except for maybe ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'', which is more of a 4 or 5.

* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' [[note]] Ink guns and bombs make opponents burst into ink and respawn, but not die. The single-player campaigns occasionally delve into a light Level 2 and "Salmon Run", having enemy creatures that pop into ink without respawning.[[/note]]