Content Warning

About Content Warning

Content Warning is a co-op horror game made by five developers at Landfall, mostly during an internal game jam in Seoul. It came out on Steam on 1 April 2024 and was free for its first 24 hours. On 1 April 2026 it arrived on PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, with cross-play between all versions. You and up to three friends are would-be online stars who want to get famous on SpookTube by filming scary things.

Each day starts on Sky Island, a sunny base on the surface, where you buy gear and set your ASCII face. Then the crew climbs into a diving bell and goes down to the Old World, a dark ruin of corridors, machines and pits whose rooms are generated anew. You have one camera with limited film, a flashlight or two, and about 500 seconds of oxygen once you leave the bell. Each player can carry up to three items. Whatever you film down there is all you have to show for the day.

The Old World is full of monsters with their own habits, animated with physics so they stumble, grab and fling, along with cursed relics that do strange things. The bigger the scare you catch on tape, the more views it gets, so the game keeps pushing you toward the thing you should be running from. If you survive, you ride the bell back up, upload the video and watch it together while the view counter ticks up.

You get one dive and one upload per day, and a run lasts three days. If the crew misses the view target by the end, the run resets and you start again from nothing. Ad money buys better gear, medical equipment, props and emotes, and sponsorship deals pay MC that goes on island upgrades and hats. It is as much a comedy as a horror game: much of the footage ends up being friends screaming, falling over or being carried off, and the watch party is where you see it.

It suits groups of friends who enjoy games like Lethal Company, where the laughs and the scares come together. You can play alone even though the first task asks you to invite someone, but it is built around a crew with voice chat.

How to play Content Warning

1. Host or join a crew of up to four, set your face and buy gear on Sky Island.
2. Ride the diving bell down to the Old World with the camera, a flashlight and up to three items each.
3. Explore, find monsters and strange things, and film them while keeping an eye on your oxygen and film.
4. Get back into the diving bell before your oxygen runs out to return to the surface.
5. Upload your footage to SpookTube, watch it with the crew and spend the ad money on better gear.

Tips

• Decide who holds the camera; one steady camera operator gets better footage than four people panicking.
• Film your friends reacting to monsters; the scare is often what earns the views.
• Oxygen lasts about 500 seconds outside the bell, so head back early rather than losing the whole day's footage.
• Use the sponsorship deals to earn MC for island upgrades and hats.

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