Animal Cruelty and Death Warnings

### **Birds:**

* Can Your Pet? - Game is about looking after a chick and then turning it into meat.
* Fable 3 - Opening cinematic follows a chicken trying to escape slaughter, seeming unsuccessfully, but the chicken can be seen alive in the game itself.
* The Last Door: The Letter - A puzzle solution involves rescuing a dying crow which is then eaten by a cat.
* Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor - Features a parrot which Nancy can kill by accidentally poisoning it, resulting in a game over.
* Starship Titanic - A possible puzzle solution involves putting starlings in the ventilation system, but this is an optional solution.

### **Cats:**

* Belladonna - One of the puzzles involves killing a cat with poisoned milk to progress.
* Dishonored 2 - Using the heart on Jindosh reveals he used to vivisect cats as a child.
* The Last Door: The Letter - A puzzle solution involves rescuing a cat, completion of the puzzle reveals the cat has been intentionally blinded.
* Organ Trail - You can encounter a kitten, it is treated as a food source.
* Persona 5 - One target is a serial cat killer.
* Stigmatised Property - You find a dead cat in the street.
* Stray - The cat protagonist gets hurt at the beginning of the game, and there are stealth sections where it can die.
* Yandere Simulator - Protagonist kills a cat.
* Your Grace - An enemy may kill a pet cat and send its fur to the protagonist.

### **Dogs:**

* Alan Wake - The Darkness makes a man kill his dog with an axe.
* The Bard's Tale - An adoptable dog gets stomped on.
* Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle - A dog is turned to ashes, unavoidable.
* Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Audio log about a dog being microwaved by a weapon you can get in the game.
* Blade Runner - Your pet dog Maggie dies regardless of which route you choose, you either find her already dead, or she gets exploded in front of you, unavoidable
* CSI: Miami - A dog dies alongside a murder victim in one of the cases, unavoidable.
* Dragon Age: Origins - Unless you are playing Human Noble, your character gets the option to kill the Mabari companion instead of healing it. Entirely avoidable. There *are* enemy dogs in the games that you must kill, though.
* The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Occasional dog enemies, not really avoidable.
* Fable II - Your dog will die towards the end of the game, but he can be revived.
* Fallout - The dog companion is very weak, and it’s very hard to keep him alive all the way through the game.
* Fallout 4 - Your dog companion is immortal, but the noises he makes when he gets wounded can be really hard on the heart.
* Haunting Ground - Your dog companion is immortal in the normal game (though he \*can\* die in hard mode) and gets shot off-screen, but survives.
* Jade Empire - If your protagonist has a high Closed Fist alignment, they can kick puppies.
* Killing Moon - A dog is killed off-screen but the remains (graphic for a old school style game) are visible, not avoidable.
* Maid of Sker - An audio log of a dog being abused. Later, you must rescue the same dog from a bear trap.
* Martha is Dead - A girl's pet dog is killed, cooked, and fed to her by her abusive mother, but it is shown through a stylised puppet theatre, not avoidable.
* A Plague Tale: Innocence - The protagonist’s dog is killed in a horribly graphic way in the first act of the game, unavoidable.
* Postal Franchise - Animal killing is an activity the protagonist can do.
* Rule of Rose - The protagonist's dog is tortured and killed over the course of the game. This is especially nasty as the dog functions as a helper to the protagonist in much the same way as the dog in Haunting Ground.
* The Secret of Monkey Island - Parodied when you drug some attack poodles, the game makes it very clear they are just sleeping.
* The Sinking City - A side quest involves finding a dead dog, and a teddy bear made from its skin.
* Snatcher - A dog is killed and eviscerated.
* Wolfenstein: The New Order - Features dogs and cyborg dogs as enemies.
* Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus - Has a scene near the beginning where the protagonist is forced to shoot his own dog by his abusive father. Refusing to shoot the dog results in the father shooting it instead.
* Yakuza - Some thugs throw rocks at a puppy.

### **Farm Animals:**

* Arida: Backland's Awakening - Deals with the effects of drought, including many dead goats and cows.
* Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death - One location is a mob-run salami plant, including a lot of dead pigs, blood, and meat industry imagery.
* Harvest Moon - Animal death is a game mechanic in Save the Homeland and Wonderful Life
* Hitman Contracts - Mission set in a BDSM party in a meat packing plant.
* Illusion of Gaia - Pet pig sacrificed to save party from cannibals.
* The Lost Crown - You can befriend a pig, which will get barbecued later.

### **Fish:**

* Mass Effect 2 & 3 - If you forget to feed your fish, they will die.
* Sleeping Dogs - Aquariums, and sometimes their occupants (yes *you can* pick up a fish and hit people with it), are used as environmental hazards you can throw enemies into.
* Thing in Itself - Feature a pet goldfish Henry, who dies over the course of the game.

### **Hamsters:**

* Corpse Party - Attempted killing of a hamster in a flashback
* Manic Mansion - There’s an option to put a hamster in a microwave. Not necessary to beat the game and showing the dead hamster to its owner will get you killed, but it is considered canon in the sequel.

### **Horses:**

* Shadow of The Colossus - At one point your horse *appears* to die after falling off a cliff, but survives with a hurt leg.
* Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Your horse dies at the end of the first level.
* The Oregon Trail - Horse death is a game mechanic.

### **Bloodsports Arenas:**

* Alundra 2
* Baldur's Gate 2
* Fallout: New Vegas
* Kingdom of Loathing
* Law & Order: Legacies
* Mass Effect 2
* Sleeping Dogs

### **Other:**

* Borderlands 2 - Handsome Jack tortures Bloodwing and forces you to fight her.
* Dead By Daylight - Kenneth Chase's backstory shows how he escalated from killing small animals to murdering humans.
* Dragon Age 2 - NPC chatter in Darktown implies a poor family cooked their pet.
* Dwarf Fortress - Eating animals regardless of what they are is a game mechanic.
* The First Tree - Features dead fox kits.
* Irisu Syndrome - Mutilation of a pet rabbit.
* Mad Father - Killing animals is a big theme of the game.
* Meat & Greed - A game about escaping a slaughterhouse.
* Meat is Murder - Game made by PETA
* Sucker for Love (Dread X Collection 2) - You must sacrifice your pet tortoise.
* Sunless Sea - You can eat some of your mascots when desperate.
* Whiplash - A game about freeing animals from experiments.
* Your Grace - Multiple cases of animal death and cruelty.