UNOFFICIAL Lucah: Born of a Dream Content Warnings List

UNOFFICIAL CONTENT WARNING LIST for LUCAH: Born of a Dream (2018), including its DLC LUCAH: The Descent (2019).
This content warning list was made 1/19/2020.

The official content warning list can be found here: https://pastebin.com/3UD3Mt74


This list details content warnings per section of the game.
Listed content are depicted on-screen unless noted otherwise.



* Items listed with an asterisk ( * ) next to them are marked for subjectivity (meaning: due to ambiguity in depiction and difference in opinion, you may not interpret a certain instance as evidence of what is being described and warned for). *



LUCAH's tone is dark overall. Characters' negative dialogue/feelings, accusations/commands made toward the player, depictions/descriptions of emotional unhealthiness, and other elements of the game's narrative may all serve to increase anxiety or depressive thoughts.


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- GENERAL -
These general content warnings apply throughout all of LUCAH: Born of a Dream and its DLC.

- Screenshake (can be set to Low or switched Off in full game options)
- Flashing lights
  - Eyestrain
- Sudden and/or loud sound effects (can be adjusted in options)
- Violence
  - Impalement
  - Self-harm
  - Blood
  - Death
     - Mass murder
     - Suicide
- Child harm (see above category: Violence)
  - Child abuse
  - Child death
- Dissociation / Unreality
- Religious imagery
  - Religious fanaticism
  - Crucifixion
- Apocalyptic imagery
  - Climate change / aftermath
  - Nuclear warfare / aftermath
- Fatalism*
- Dark, enclosed spaces
- Phrase repetition
- Metafiction










- NEW GAME -
These content warnings apply throughout New Game.

Track -1
- Metafiction; addressing the player
- Gore (implied, textual)


Track 1
- Child abuse; manipulation (implied, textual)
  - Child runaways as a product of the above


Track 2
- Religious imagery; Self-flagellation
- Issue with baptismal consent (involving a child and their baptism, textual)
- Verbal abuse (directed toward a child)
- Mass murder
  - Mass impalement / crucifixion (instance of a child being impaled in a close shot)
  - Parental death


Track 3
- Train wreckage
- Metafiction; Addressing and commanding the player
- Mass murder (mentioned, textual)
- Death threat (suicidal and murderous, made by a child toward another child)
- Child abuse (textual)
  - Homophobia* (implied, textual)


Track 4
- Jumpscare*
  - ^Occurs after progressing past the Track's title drop.
  - Train collision; involves a train and a child. (fake-out, non-graphic)
- Body dysphoria
- Suicide (by an adult, who appears to condone the action for a child*)
  - Suicide by falling


Track 5
- Religious fanaticism
- Mass kidnapping / Abduction
  - Child runaways
- Child abuse
  - Child harm as means of entertainment
  - Hostage situation (a child is used as a hostage)
  - Gun violence (used against a child, fatally)
  - Child death
- Mass murder
  - Mass impalement / crucifixion
- Flashing lights
  - ^An intense instance occurs in the fourth level of iamnotamachine.
- Suicide
  - Suicidal ideation* (made by a child)


Track 6
- Time limit
  - ^Occurs after a character mentions an oil rig


Track 7
- Transphobia
  - Deadnaming (accidental, made by one child toward another)
- Child harm
  - Assisted murder-suicide (made between two children)
  - Impalement (of a child, fatally)
  - Child death


Track 8
- Suicide
  - Suicidal ideation
  - Assisted suicide* (an adult incites a child into killing them (the adult); optional and avoidable)
- Religious fanaticism
  - Glorification of death
  - Animal death* ("animal" only exists in this game; optional and avoidable)
- Metafiction; addressing the player
- Child harm
  - Assisted suicide* (a child incites another child into killing himself (the former child))
  - Child death
- Transphobia
  - Deadnaming (intentional, targeted toward a child)


sacrament iii.
- Child harm (textual)
  - Body horror (textual)
  - Suicide* (by a child)
    - Imagery of suicide by falling
  - Crucifixion
  - Child death
  - Self-deprecation


sacrament v.
- Suicide (both by an adult and a child*)
  - Suicide by falling
  - Pedestrian suicide
  - Glorification of suicide
- Body horror (textual)
- Religious fanaticism
  - Glorification of suicide










- NEW GAME PLUS -
These content warnings apply throughout New Game+. Please note that, due to the inherent nature of New Game+, all previous warnings for New Game sections still apply here.

sacrament i.
- Child harm
  - Child abuse; verbal (involving manipulation by an adult) and physical, both textual
  - Transphobia
    - Deadnaming (intentional, made by a parental figure to her children, and forced upon for the children to deadname themselves)
  - Threat to harm a child (made by a parental figure to her child)
  - Child death
  - Parental death
- Body dysmorphia* (mentioned)


sacrament iv.
* It should be noted that sacrament iv. has the most concentrated mentions / depictions of blood, gore, violence, and the like. *
- Apocalyptic imagery
  - Nuclear warfare / aftermath
    - Mass murder
- Body horror* (implied)
  - Brainwashing*
- Traumatic flashbacks
  - ^Leg injury involving a bicycle; graphic but entirely textual
- Gun violence
- Impalement
- Auto-cannibalism
- Child harm
  - Gun violence (used against a child)
  - Throttling; Asphyxiation (done by an adult to a child, fatally*)
  - Death threat* (made by an adult*)
  - Child death*


Track 9
- Transphobia
  - Deadnaming (intentional, targeted toward a child)
- Death threat (made by a child, targeted toward another child)
- Child death*


sacrament vii.
- Description of a harmful romantic relationship, throughout
- Self-harm (graphic, both depicted and described textually)
- Child death*










- DESCENT DLC -

sacrament ii.
- Metafiction, throughout*
- Suicide
  - Suicidal ideation
  - Suicide by falling
- Needles (mentioned, metaphorical, textual)
- Corporal punishment (textual)
- Traumatic flashbacks
  - Stalking
- Abuse* (mention)
  - Harm to self, others (friends, family)*
- Self-harm
  - Eye horror (graphic, textual)
  - Cutting*, blunt trauma*, self-immolation* (implied)
  - Self-deprecation
    - Self-hate
- Familial strain
- Jumpscares*
  - ^Three, consecutively. Occurs after the lines "Convinced they're there / Watching, waiting"
- Sleep paralysis*
- Apocalyptic imagery
- Suicide
  - Assisted suicide* (an adult pleads for a child into killing them (the adult) multiple times*; unavoidable)