Outlast 2 Refused Classification in Australia

Outlast II has been refused classification in Australia by the Australian Classification Board.

The specific content unable to be accommodated within the R18+ classification in the eyes of the ACB is unknown at this stage. IGN has contacted both developer Red Barrels for a statement and the ACB for a copy of the post-classification report.

For now the only information available on the Classification Board’s website is a boilerplate notice referencing item 1a of the National Classification Code’s section on video games (a broad and unspecific statement prohibiting games that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”)

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