Catherine

This game explores mature themes involving relationships, including romantic commitment, sex, and pregnancy. It also sensationalizes violent death and makes drinking and smoking seem like an important part of adult socialization. 

Long narrative sequences involve nothing more complex than surfing through dialogue. The puzzle scenes, on the other hand, can be extremely tricky. Players will need to master a variety of block sliding techniques that work within the game’s unique physics system in order to create stairways that lead ever higher.

Several scenes show a man in bed with a woman, the two engaging in frank discussions about sex that include words like “kinky” and “V-card.” Characters are never shown naked, but only because of strategically positioned furniture and sheets that block the view of the camera. Survey questions get players to think about their own sexual habits, including one that asks players which they consider to be a worse form of cheating, “emotional trysts” or “physical flings.” One of the characters reveals that she is pregnant. An art booklet bundled with the game includes sexually charged pictures, including one in which a tiny man is drowning in cleavage.