Region variant: RegionVariant.DE.USK18
SKU tag: SKU.DE.USK18.GoreRestricted
Build macro: RegionVariant
Last verified: 2026-05-17
Source URL: https://usk.de/en/the-usk/faqs/age-categories/
- Rating-board submission: package the gore-restricted build with explicit notes for violence, explicit violence, chats, in-game purchases, and adult-only store handling.
- Fatalities policy: Fatalities are disabled or substituted with non-gore alternatives by default for this SKU.
- Store-page copy: branch German store text to the USK 18 SKU and state that the German build substitutes gore-heavy finishers by default.
- Marketing assets: remove or replace fatality gore shots, severed-body frames, and X-Ray bone-shatter imagery from German trailers, screenshots, thumbnails, and event loops.
- In-game text: externalized strings must name the German region variant and avoid implying that disabled gore settings can be bypassed in public builds.
- Audio: keep impact, crowd, and commentator lines while replacing gore-specific calls for substituted finishers.
- Cinematics: default finishers use non-gore alternatives; cinematic review must verify no detailed dismemberment or gore escalation remains.
- Store flow: require age-gated USK 18 presentation and per-locale SKU branching before purchase, entitlement, and launch.
- Runtime: boot assert compares the installed German SKU to
RegionVariant.DE.USK18.