Grand Theft Auto VI’s Website Now Displays a PEGI 18 Rating
A detailed PEGI description, since removed, listed frequent violence, strong language, cocaine use, nudity, and sexual content, while regional PlayStation Store pages mention sex scenes ahead of the scheduled Nov. 19, 2026 release.
Grand Theft Auto VI’s official website now displays a PEGI 18 rating, while the detailed content description briefly visible on PEGI’s listing has since disappeared. PEGI has not explained why it removed the text, and its disappearance alone does not show that the 18 rating changed.
Rating updated on the main site!
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PEGI’s entry lists PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and gives Grand Theft Auto VI a Nov. 19, 2026 release date. Its notice says that date remains confirmed and that other dates attached to the product are informational only. In the United States, the ESRB rates the game M for Mature, a rating for ages 17 and older. The United Kingdom and Europe use PEGI 18, for ages 18 and older. The broader warnings include blood and gore, intense violence, mature humor, nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, and drug and alcohol use.
Detailed descriptions of GTA VI mature content published on PEGI before being taken down.
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The removed description calls the violence frequent, bloody, and highly realistic. Players can harm civilians, criminals, authorities, and other characters, as well as domestic animals. Animal injuries are shown in less detail than injuries to human characters, although some weapons can cause what PEGI describes as “detailed decapitation and dismemberment.”
PEGI also flags frequent strong language, including “fuck” and “cunt.” Discriminatory language can be heard in television shows and on radio channels, and the listing notes that players can purchase in-game items.
Illegal drug use is described as frequent and prominent. Players can take drugs with other characters or use illegal substances from their inventory. Cocaine can be carried in a small bag in the character’s pocket and snorted directly from their hand, including outside a set scene.
The sexual-content details include full nudity, scenes of intercourse, and occasional sexual fetishes. In nightclubs, players can pay for private dances and move their character’s hands onto dancers’ breasts and buttocks.
New Zealand’s Office of Film and Literature Classification registered the console game as R18 on October 2, 2026, restricting it to people aged 18 and older. Its entry lists graphic violence, drug use, offensive language, sex scenes, and nudity, and says no excisions are recommended.
GTA 6 officially has an age rating in New Zealand as of October 2
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Australia’s PlayStation Store listing and New Zealand’s listing both use the phrase “Sex Scenes” in their Restricted 18+ classifications. Neither label identifies which scenes appear in the game, and Rockstar’s website offers no further explanation for the wording. Earlier Grand Theft Auto games have included sexual content such as encounters with sex workers. Australia’s rating for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy also uses the separate descriptor “Sexual Activity Related To Incentives And Rewards,” while New Zealand’s listing does not mention that category.
Grand Theft Auto VI follows a couple, but the rating language does not identify which characters appear in the sexual scenes, where they occur in the story, or how they fit into the wider game. These classifications describe how rating boards have categorized the game, not a scene-by-scene account of its content.
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Grand Theft Auto VI
Developed by Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.
- Genre Shooter, Racing, Adventure
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5
- Perspective First person, Third person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release November 19, 2026
- Publisher Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
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