Stardew Valley
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Shwoo
You can have a dog as a pet, but neglecting it has no real effect.
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All animals are just pixels. No real live animals are involved.
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Shwoo
There is a horse, but it needs no care and cannot be injured.
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charcolor
Your livestock can be killed by wild animals if you lock them out of the barns/coops and leave them out during nighttime. While sleeping, you'll hear an animal cry, and the next morning one of your animals will be gone and the rest of your animals will be frightened. However, this is very easily avoidable, and even if you end up shutting your animals outside for the night, it is not guaranteed that they will be attacked by wild animals.
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shortbred
One of the characters keeps his dog in deplorable condition. It's huddled in the back of a cardboard box with only its eyes visible and no water or enrichment. A rusted sign painted "DOG" is in front of its fenced area, which is terribly small. Later in an update, it became possible to do side quests to upgrade the dog's living conditions, such as replacing the soggy box with a proper doghouse and adding a bowl of water beside its existing food dish, but the fenced area still remains. (This could be chocked up to size-disproportionate art style, though.)
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charcolor18
Your livestock can die, but no dead bodies of animals are ever shown.
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Shwoo
You can have a cat as a pet, but neglecting it has no real effect.
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CaptainDemozan
If you count your farm animals as pets, they can die if you lock them out of their barns and coops. Your cat/dog never dies, however.
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dasNessie
One kind of enemy in the mines can be interpreted as a dragon.
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thespianscreed
During the Spirit's Eve festival (the equivalent of Halloween), huge spider decorations are present in the Haunted Maze. However, they are stationary and don't move.
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b3ll4g0th
If you go at the bottom of the mine, they're wrapped around the pillars.
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Liatai
Some of the enemies in the mine, sewer, and Skull Cavern are bugs, and there is a bugs-head sword you can earn if you destroy enough of them. ALL of the enemies in the sewer dungeon are bugs. Bug meat is a resource, and occasionally colorful butterflies can be seen if you shake a tree in summer.
There are also spider sculptures in the maze at Spirit's Eve. Abigail is afraid of them and refuses to go past them in the maze.
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oreoicecrem
Shane and Jas live with their aunt Marnie, their parents aren't mentioned as far as I'm aware
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thespianscreed
Alex mentions that his now-estranged father is emotionally abusive.
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charcolor
One character has an abusive ex. They only show up if you choose to romance this character, and there is no physical abuse shown (their abuse involves emotional manipulation).
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postermug
Leah's ex seems to be stalking her, either online or in person. This can be avoided by not becoming friends with her.
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MarisaRamey
one character implies that her son smokes weed
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Thomas Veil
One non-player character is an alcoholic who turns out to have clinical depression. If the Player puts a lot of effort into befriending him, he will eventually agree to go to counselling, and will slowly get better.
Another minor character starts off the game as an unemployed alcohol abuser. Direct intervention can lead to her choosing to seek solace from religion, although this does not cure her. Through a *very* unrelated series of events, the Player ends up landing her a job, which somewhat affects her drinking.
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Alex22
Shane is shown to have an alcohol addiction, though upon going through his story route he will recover. Additionally, while not stated to be a full on addiction, Sebastian can be found smoking cigarettes, and a line of dialogue with his mother hints at him using marijuana.
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The Wizard and Mr. Qi offer the player weird/magical things to drink but the player is cool with drinking them to gain powers.
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Iscopeeee
During Elliot's ten heart cutscene, he suddenly kisses your character without asking, and your character starts shaking. While he does stop and apologise if you tell him he made you uncomfortable, and the scene can only be triggered if you are already dating him, it still may be upsetting for some players.
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Pierre and Morris, who works for Joja and could be accused of bullying Pierre, have a fight. Both consent to the fight and it is fair mutual combat.
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Pantalones
Underage characters CANNOT be dated.
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ThatWGIgeek
It is implied that Kent, a soldier who returns from war in the second year, was tortured in a prison camp, but there is never any detail at all.
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Iscopeeee
One character, Marlon, has an eyepatch, but the injured eye is never shown.
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CaptainDemozan
There is no visual shaving. However, one NPC will have nightmares of receiving a buzz cut that he asks you to not make a reality.
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Pantalones
Your character can faint from exhaustion or taking too much damage. They will wake up in bed or possibly the hospital if injured by monsters.
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schadd
you can take fall damage in the skull cavern and *theoretically* get knocked unconscious but your character cant die
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CaptainDemozan
You can be hit with fire attacks, which inflicts you with the "Burnt" debuff. The debuff just affects stats rather than damaging, and your character can recover quickly from it.
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Bxbby
...Its stardew valley
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oreoicecrem
You can marry many of the characters that may be teens. The only characters you cannot marry are the two young children and the characters who are already married
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thespianscreed
Your in-game children cannot die, and if you choose to get rid of them following a divorce, they are turned into doves and fly away.
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Player's grandpa dies peacefully to old age off screen and returns later as a ghost
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Ellie_red
Although Shane is found passed out, nobody in the game dies from an overdose
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Pantalones
Alex talks about his mother who died in several cut scenes. The player's grandfather died and left the player the farm in their will. The spirit of the grandfather appears in a cut scene.
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charcolor
There are characters with deceased parents, but all parents have died prior to the events of the game.
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Sesse998
If you date enough partners at once, you can get a cutscene where they confront you about cheating
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lesliepink
You can go in a spa, but the characters wear bathing suits
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There may be a single dark hole players can jump down in Skull Caverns but usually it is just one per floor.
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Shwoo
Ghost enemies can be found between levels 51 and 90 of the mines.
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Shwoo
There is a clown present during the Stardew Valley Fair event.
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CloudyMindCloudyDays
You don't see anyone vomit but in one of Shane's heart events he is seen passed out and covered in vomit (it's green and has little chunks in it) also when you go into Pam's house there's some green vomit on the couch.
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Dreamdust1600
There are no cops in this game
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Pantalones
Only if the player wills it. They can date any, all or none of the numerous male and female marriage candidates. If the player dates everyone, there is a cut scene where they are confronted for cheating.
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leylo
I do believe flu shots are briefly mentioned at some point, but I might be wrong.
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charcolor
Some cutscenes take place in the clinic, which looks just like a small hospital. Additionally, if you lose all your health in the Skull Cavern, you will wake up in the clinic and be told that you have had an emergency surgery.
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RussellOreo
A character with PTSD panics when hearing loud noises and talks about the war.
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FyreNWater
Potentially. There are repetitive animal noises (can be toggled off in options), gulping and chewing sounds when eating (mods exist to remove these), and various enemy creatures make screeching noises.
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Nicole Nowotnik
no, but someone contemplates it in pretty realistic detail, and as someone who suffers from suicidal ideation, it did trigger me to the point where i had to take sedative medication to calm down and not hurt myself.
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Kent, a non dateable npc who you meet at the beginning of year 2, has war related ptsd
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[SPOILERS]
there is a heart event where Shane is seen drunk at the side of a cliff and talks about he wishes he was not alive and another heart event where he talks about how he won't make it past a certain age
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Trying2Help
A Character is near an attempt and has a conversation with the player about how they want to die of suicide.
Avoidable - only occurs by walking to forest area (the one near Marnie’s home, not the secret woods) on a rainy day IF *spoilers*
You have 6+ hearts with Shane.
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Vio
No, but some levels of the mine are rather cramped
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Pantalones
Shane gets drunk and collapses near a cliff. He talks about rolling off and mentions he's been coming to the cliff often.
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rotmg
There are bombs used in the mine that flash
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Pantalones
Very, very minor. One of Clint's generic dialogues is "I'm too damn old."
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Pantalones
The Wizard states he watches the townspeople from afar, presumably with magic.
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If you marry an npc you are randomly given the choice to have a baby, through birth or adoption depending on player and spouse gender
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RowanOakley
No, but it is possible to get rid of children through a specific ritual that must be unlocked in game; the children aren't killed, merely transformed into birds.
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charcolor
If you are in a heterosexual marriage, you (or your wife, if you are the husband) can get pregnant if you agree to have children, and eventually give birth. This birth happens entirely off-screen at nighttime, with a text box informing you that you (or your wife) gave birth.
Your livestock also have a chance of giving birth, but just like your own children, this only happens at night and offscreen.
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Kathryn
One character is in a wheelchair, and during a cut scene another character pushes him out of the way, thinking she's being kind and helping him get his mail.
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cherry
"cr-ppling" is used in an unreclaimed way, and a character may make a homophobic comment
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RowanOakley
There's a goblin, which are sometimes interpreted as antisemitic caricatures, but he's a very minor character you might never meet in some playthroughs, and aside from having a large nose and being green he doesn't embody any antisemitic stereotypes. Otherwise, the main religion in Stardew Valley is a fictional one and Judaism is never mentioned.
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Pantalones
Dating/marriage can be a large part of the game. However it's up to the player. They don't HAVE to marry or romance anyone. You can also have a platonic roommate by asking Krobus to live with you. All choices are equally viable.
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JLin
All dateable characters are bisexual (players of either gender can date/marry them). No one dies.
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pond
While no character is ever deliberately misgendered, there are only two gender options during character creation at the beginning of the game, and the only pronounce available for the player character are he or she.
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pagodrink
There aren't any fat jokes as far as I know, but some characters comment about gaining weight or diets.
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RowanOakley
No characters of color die.
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RowanOakley
No, but an elderly character implies he doesn't approve of you dating his grandson if you play as a man. He learns better eventually.
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RowanOakley
Your farmer can be male and wear skirts and no one ever comments on it.
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RowanOakley
Eh, tricky, a couple of the bachelors are mentioned to be older. Depends on how you see your farmer.
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Pantalones
Characters can have babies with the player, but there is no discussion of virginity.
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Liatai
Your character can get married and have up to two kids, and your farm animals can get pregnant, but nothing sexual is explicitly mentioned, and nothing is shown.
The two closest things are where you can retrieve the mayor's lucky purple shorts" which turn out to be in a woman's bedroom, and an optional cutscene where you find a shopkeeper's "secret stash," though it's undisclosed what that stash might actually be. (I thought it was money or some kind of innocent guilty pleasure, like hidden snacks or a book, when I first encountered it.)
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Pantalones
George is in a wheelchair due to an accident.
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RowanOakley
It's implied Linus is homeless by choice, but he's still homeless and many of the common struggles with homelessness are portrayed.
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thecloudking
not exactly, but the christmas-themed second winter holiday, the feast of the winter star, has you exchange gifts by assigning the player as the secret santa for a random npc (they arent called secret santa though), and another npc is chosen at random to give you a gift, which might ruin the idea that santa is the one who brings your gifts
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beczzz
The game doesn't necessarily "end," so there is no way for there to be a sad ending.
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RowanOakley
No, but the tunnel beside the bus stop has skid marks and a busted fence.
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No, but a bus breaks down. However, everyone is safe and at their destination when it happens.
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MarisaRamey
there are no cars but it is possible to get hit by a train if the player purposefully stands in front of it. it is not possible to die but the player will take some damage and if their health is low enough this could trigger the hospital cutscene
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CaptainDemozan
You can kill bugs, and they will sometimes drop their flesh.
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Sesse998
You can find a minigame where you shoot zombies
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