“Unknown 9: Awakening” is an action-adventure game which revolves around Haroona, a young girl from Kolkata, India. Haunted by visions of her own demise, Haroona tries to comprehend and master her psychic abilities to investigate a mysterious dimension known as The Fold.
The game is rated Advisory 16 (Suitable for 16 & Above).
Played typically from a third-person perspective, the protagonist will traverse between reality and The Fold in exploring a variety of environments to advance in the game. Gameplay involves fighting and defeating human enemies with a variety of moves. These include melee combat, telekinetic shock waves and possession, gunfire, stealth attacks and denotating explosive materials. A turret gun can also be used to fire at incoming enemy planes during a game event. Progress can be enhanced by recovering health and gaining points to acquire new skills.
Moderate violence can be encountered during gameplay. Scenes portray characters getting electrocuted or disappearing in puffs of smoke without blood effects when they are attacked or killed. When the protagonist is struck and low on health, red flashes appear on the fringes of the screen. Stronger depictions include a cutscene of a character who is stabbed in the chest with blood spurts seen. Overall, such portrayals are allowed under the Advisory 16 rating where the Classification Guidelines permit “realistic but not excessively graphic violence with depiction of blood”.
There is some use of crude language such as “damn”, “bastard” and “shit”, which are uttered by characters and seen in the English subtitles.