While it’s available on PC via the Epic Games Store and Steam for quite some time, Sludge Life was banned in 2021 when it was ported to Switch. Unfortunately, it also lets you take drugs - and we know how the Classification Review Board feels about that. Sludge Life is a relatively innocuous graffiti simulator where you run around a 3D world painting walls and meeting strange characters. Sludge Life Image: Sludge Life / Devolver Digital The Mary Skelter games have been flagged as fan service-heavy ‘tits and arse’ dungeon crawlers in the past, and it’s likely this ‘fan service’ was what caused the ban hammer to swing. While the exact reasons for the ban are unclear without an official decision report, the reasons heavily imply one or more of its young-looking cast may have been involved in a sexual situation. “describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not).” “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,” It received a ping for both 1(a) and (b) in the Australian classification criteria, which identifies games that: Mary Skelter: Finale is the latest game to be banned in Australia, and the reasons for its RC rating are pretty damning. This story has been updated and retimed since its original publication.
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