In the modern world of gaming, it is now easier than ever to get games into the hands of players across the globe. With physical copies, online shopping services like Amazon and eBay can get games delivered to your doorstep within 48 hours if need be. Digital copies of games can be downloaded from e-shops like the PlayStation store or Steam in a matter of minutes. Point being, access i💙s now more instant than ever and the booming video game industry seems to be publishing a large array new titles monthly, if not weekly.

This barrage of content makes it much harder for parents to keep track of what is appropriate for their little children to be playing and what isn't. For the purposes of this article, we will define “children” as those aged 12 years old and under. While as a gamer and journalisಞt I am against censorship, there are some games which, in my opinion, don’t belong in the hands of young children. Whether it be for reasons such as learning bad language to use in public, seeing risky content, or being exposed to an excess amount of violence, there are some games that require a developed and older mind to be enjoyed sa𒆙fely and properly.

Note that the opinions in this article belong to the author alone and does not reflect the philosꦫophy of TheGamer as a brand. Without further ado, here are 25 games kids should never be allowed to play.

25 Grand Theft Gone Wrong ꧑

Starting off this list hard and heavy is perhaps the most controversial and notorious series from Rockstar Games developer: the Grand Theft Auto series. Why does the series take so much heat? Be♕cause the game is filled to the edge of the disc with stuff that just isn't meant for kids.

There are references and scenes galore that are too much, and the characters in the game commit a lot of crimes.

There🅠fore, it’s easy to understand why the series was banned in numerous countries. In context with today’s political climate and weapon control problems, the game has been the spotlight of a lot of negative press. Grand Theft Auto is often used as the go-to example of a game that could cause or promote bad behavior among younger gamers.

24 A Fallout Fꦚor Certain Audiences Only

This section relates to the newer main titles of the series: Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4. Bethesda’s beloved series has received much critical acclaim and has won an incredible amount of awards over the years. The open-world RPG gives players the freedom to choose whatever path they want, and be the hero or villain they want to be. However, there are good reasons why the game has an M ESRB rating. One look at the game, and it's pretty obvious as to why. As the ♔fans of Fallout know, the bad things in the game are on the extreme end, rivaling or even surpassing the Grand Theft Auto series. In Fallout, enemies can explode into more pieces than we can count. More than that, some missions have incredibly dark and de❀ep content such as saving Pickman, a known tyrant's, life.

23 Girlfriend From The Underworld, Litera♋lly ꧙

Published and developed by Atlus, Catherine is a console game literally unlike any I’ve played before. The game mixes puzzle-solving, platforming, and adventure game mechanics with a few RPG elements mixed in. The story follows Vincent and 🗹his girlfriend Katherine, who is trying to get him to commit to marriage. On the other hand, Vincent is indecisive and enjoys his carefree bachelor life.

One day, he meets an incredibly attractive woman at his favorite watering hole.

The woman looks like a less-conservative version of his girlfriend and is also named Catherine. Later it is revealed that she is a succubus. After a one-night romp with her, he has vivid nightmares of a demonic world that he must escape every night. The game has lots of inappropriate references and a deeper message an🧜d meaning that children just wouldn’t understand.

22 A Game For Guys? ▨

The Guy Game is one of the more pricey retro video games out there, and for good reason. The game was the subject of a lawsuit which removed it from store shelves and resulted in it being ꩲcompletely banned in some countries. Developed by Topheavy Studios, the game is a trivia game show with around 1000 questions. As the player continues to answer questions correctly, live-recorded footage of actual young women in revealing bikinis plays as a reward to the player. Eventually, the woman will turn to the camera and unclothe. The game came under controversy for its content when one of the women shown in the footage claimed she wasn't old enough when the game was made. She said she didn't know what the footage would be for.

21 Nintendo Gone Conkers 🃏 🌳

Conker’s Bad Fur Day is one of the only games to get an M ESRB rating on the Nintendo 64 console. Since Nintendo constantly promotes a family-friendly imag🍰e, it is quite rare for any game on a Nintendo system to warrant such a rating. One only need play the game to discover why it received such a high rating.

The themes are rather silly in an adult’s eyes, as animals, plants, and inanimate objects are personified in a mock-Disney like fashion.

For example, one scene features a bee getting too close to a chested flower. Strange sounds are played, as Conker keepꦜs watch. While there are no really gross 𒁃elements to the game, these kinds of references in a Nintendo game is unheard of, and will easily turn some parents off.

20 A Silent Hill To🐻 Stay Away From

This section refers to the Silent Hill series as a whole, which is one of the most beloved horror game franchises of all time. Every game in the series released in the west to date has gotten an M ESRB rating for various reasons. What ESRB fails to mention are the creatures that roam the game. They're all very gross and are quite shocking to anyone who was not expecting them. Surely they have literally led to nigh🍃tmares for the gamers brave enough to play the games to completion. The creatures in the game are so awful that players will fear for the sanity of the minds that created them. While the stories in each game will differ, the element of fear always remains thanks to the brilliantly scary character design and animation.

19 Children Of The C🌸orn, Reborn 🔥

Perhaps one of the most expensive games on the PlayStation 2, Rule of Rose is a horror game that flew under the radar and was overshadowed by heavy-hitters like the Resident Evil or Silent Hill, and even the Fatal Frame series. Unsurprisingly, it had an M rating, ဣbut the most horrifying element🍎s of the game may be scenes where children repeatedly attack people.

For example, one scene has a captive stuffed into a sack.

Each child places an insect into the sack one by one. Thus, while the game is less gross than many mainstream horror titles, it has the content to be much more psychologically scarring on young minds. Rule of Rose is a great example of a game inspiring true horror rather than an abundance of gross thing🌺s and jump scares.

18 ⛦ A Hunt Like No Other

Manhunt is a video game series also published by Rockstar Games, the company behind the highly controversial Grand Theft Auto series. The game has received a lot of ne💟gative press and public complaints about its violence. It was even named as the reason for an incident in the UK. The game has since been banned in some countries. Unsurprisingly, it has a high ESRB rating, though children have still managed to play the game. The gameplay revolves around clearing each stage by defeating the enemy gang members within it, mostly through stealthy executions. The animations for these are really something, and would be a bit much even for adults. Although I'm quite liberal when it comes to allowing children to play video games, this game is something even adults don't need to see.

17 Not So Lucky Larry ♔ ♕

One of the longest-running adult games, the Leisure Suit Larry series has been around since 1987 and had its start on the PC DOS and Apple II. The main protagonist of the game, Larry Laffer, is a middle-aged man who has never spent time ℱwith a woman.

He tries desperately to get things started.

Instead he has unending bad luck with women and not to mention a less-than-fashionable style that would turn any woman off. Every Leisure Suit Larry title to date has received either an M or AO ESRB rating. Which isn't really surprising, given the subject. The game is filled with risky jokes and humor and scenarios that kids could never relate to. Parents, please keep your young children away from this se꧋ries!

16 A Game Of Pure Hatred 𝓡

Hatred is the one game on this list that perhaps gets the closest to crossing moral boundaries in terms of unnecessary violence in video games. With games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, or even Manhunt, players engaged in an incredible amount of violent action be it gunfights or blunt combat. However, in all those titles the game still had a purpose, a quest, or a main storyline that required the player to commit such acts to complete the game. Hatred, on the other hand, lives up to its title in the sense that the only goal of the game is to exhaust the flames of hatred in the main charac💯ter’s heart by engaging in a ruthless and unprovoked attack on law enforcement, unarmed civilians, soldiers, and even other criminals. Hatred is one of the only games to receive an AO rati♓ng for violence and language alone.