What if KSP had an ESRB Rating?

[robopilot99]

You guys talk like all the concepts in this game are impossible to grasp. I'm 14 and I'm doing fine and my 12 year-old brother made it as far as Bop. That's the great part about KSP it makes rocket science so easy.

[Designer225]

^ "Look(s) easy."

Real world rocket science is easier said than done. The game is designed to teach people how basic rocket science works, to teach people how the space program is run, and to let people have fun!

Back to topic: If this game is to have an ESRB rating, E (Everyone) sounds reasonable. I can't decide whether the 10+ (10-years-old or older) tag should be included, though. If ESRB is to rate, though, it would be RP (Rating Pending).

But all the ratings proposed are matter of opinions (even mine). I Googled "Kerbal Space Program ESRB" and this thread came out of it; no actual ESRB rating for this game. Maybe I should do a search on the ESRB website. And the truth is, KSP is rarely advertised (at least that's what I've seen).

[dryer_lint]

Rating: E

*someone sends them a Danny video*

Rating: M

[Mistake Not…]

To compare, DEFCON, a game about nuclear war and the anonymous, brutal annihilation of millions of people, has an ESRB rating of 'TEEN with Mild Violence' and a PEGI rating of '7+'.

It's pretty disturbing to play, with the excellent audio design. Near-subsonic rumbles as a warhead explodes, the faint sound of people sobbing in the background of your bunker as the world is slowly turned to glass, the fatality counts mounting as cities are scorched in nuclear fire...

I think KSP has nothing to worry about!