The current Banned logo, used since 2009.
This is a complete list of video games that have been banned in El Kadsre by the El Kadsre Film and Game Rating Board. These are titles that the board considers offensive to the standards of morality, titles that promote terrorism, child exploitation, sexual assault, use of drugs/alcohol as rewards/incentives, or are offensive to certain cultures and religious beliefs are likely to receive the rating. It is illegal to distribute and/or sell these games in El Kadsre but is still legal to own a copy.
Games that have been previously banned can be unbanned upon an appeals process if they change or remove the offending content. In rare cases, appeals can end up getting an X-rating label depending on the content. Many developers, including Rockstar, Activision, and id Software, have ended up having titles banned from being released in El Kadsre. Several major developers, including Drillimation Studios and many other family-friendly developers, never aim for these ratings; however, some titles ended up being banned temporarily due to recalls if a glitch or other hidden content was found.
Ban list
Permanently banned
| Game | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Platform(s) | Released | Original rating | Current rating |
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| Manhunt | Rockstar | PS2, Xbox, PC | 2003 |
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| Banned due to extreme violence and gore, and was most likely banned due to fears of reenactments by El Kadsreian citizens, and most likely due to fears of shootings occurring at retail stores. Its sequel was also banned too. | ||||||
| Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude | High Voltage Software | Sierra Entertainment | PS2, Xbox PC | 2004 |
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| Banned due to the use of sexuality as rewards/incentives. One rater described the experience as "an eroge visual novel-like experience." | ||||||
| Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two | Minori | MangaGamer | PC | 2014 |
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| Banned due to the depiction of child exploitation and sexual assault. | ||||||
| Yandere Simulator | YandereDev | tinyBuild Games | PC | 2014 |
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Appeal rejected |
| The game's over-the-top extreme violence, especially in a school setting, has ignited anger among teachers and staff in El Kadsreian schools. Parents were afraid that school shootings like this would occur if their kids did so. Yandere Simulator also sparked controversy after the game allegedly inspired a teenager to commit a murder. | ||||||
Overturned
| Game | Developer(s) | Publisher(s) | Platform(s) | Released | Original rating | Current rating |
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| Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom | Drillimation Studios Team Shanghai Alice |
Namco | Arcade, SNES, Genesis, PC | August 1993 | 
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| Recalled after one of El TV Kadsre's staff encountered Yukari Yakumo's spell card Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple, which depicted a swastika. El TV Kadsre staff told Drillimation that this was inappropriate for a child-friendly game. | ||||||
| Killer Minecraft: Immaterial and Missing Power | Drillimation Studios | Namco | Arcade, PS1, SNES, Genesis, PC | December 1994 | 
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| Recalled due to a glitch found in-game with Kagami. EK stopped allowing used of the game while an update had to be issued to correct it. | ||||||
| Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object | Drillimation Studios Team Shanghai Alice |
Namco | Arcade, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PC | August 1999 |
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| Recalled due to a glitch in the N64 and PC versions where the game would randomly crash whenever hitting 1 million points.
This was caused due to issues with RAM, and since Drillimation could not fix the issue, they decided to have the RAM Expansion Pak packaged with the N64 version. | ||||||
| Conker's Bad Fur Day | Rareware | THQ | N64 | March 2001 |
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| Was initially banned due to animal cruelty, sexual themes, and drug abuse. In 2015, Rareware and Microsoft successfully appealed the game so it could be released as part of Rare Replay and it was given a R-18 rating. | ||||||
| Grand Theft Auto III | Rockstar | PS2, Xbox, PC | October 2001 |
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| Was initially banned for promoting crime, received R-18 rating upon appeal. | ||||||
| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Rockstar | PC, PS2, Xbox | 2004 |
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| Had its rating revoked due to the Hot Coffee mod, after realizing the game could be modified to find it. The ban was lifted after the second edition was released without the feature. | ||||||
| Conker: Live & Reloaded | Rareware | Microsoft | Xbox | 2005 |
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| Was initially banned for the same reasons as Conker's Bad Fur Day. In 2015, Rareware and Microsoft successfully appealed the game so it could be released as part of Rare Replay and it was given a R-20 rating. | ||||||
| Lula 3D | Unknown | CDV Software Entertainment | PC | 2005 |
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| Banned due to its sexually expilict content, received X rating upon appeal. | ||||||
| Homie Rollerz | Webfoot Technologies | Destineer | Nintendo DS | 2008 |
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| Banned due to "glorifying racist stereotypes". The ban was lifted after Latikuu, the El Kadsreian distributor of the game and the Homies figurines, appealed to the EKFGR and stated that several Homies characters were given positive traits to appeal to the intended Latino demographic. | ||||||
| Dante's Inferno | Visceral Games | Electronic Arts | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable | 2010 |
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| Banned for "parodying religion in a cruel way", being insensitive to people's religious beliefs, and "extreme violence", received R-20 rating upon appeal. | ||||||
| Call of Juarez: The Cartel | Techland | Ubisoft | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows | 2011 |
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| Banned due to accusations of racism towards Hispanics and insensity towards real-life events, received R-20 rating upon appeal. | ||||||
| Gal*Gun | Inti-Creates | Alchemist | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 | 2011 |
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| Banned due to sexual exploitation of underage women. A heavily altered version with much of the sexual content removed and "Doki Doki Mode" eliminated altogether was released under the title of Gal Gun: Love Madness! by Latikuu in 2016 and received a PG rating. | ||||||
| Gal*Gun: Double Peace | Inti-Creates | Alchemist | PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows | 2016 |
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| Banned for the same reasons as Gal*Gun. A heavily altered version with much of the sexual content removed and "Doki Doki Mode" eliminated altogether was released under the title of Gal Gun: Love Madness Again! by Latikuu in 2018 and received a PG rating. | ||||||
| Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number | Dennaton Games | Devolver Digital | PC, PS3, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch | March 10, 2015 |
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| Was initially banned for promoting terrorism and sexual assault. A censored version of the game without the implied sexual assault scene was released in 2019 with an R-18 rating. | ||||||
| Hatred | Destructive Creations | PC | 2015 |
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| Was initially banned due to extreme violence and gore, as well as allegedly promoting terrorism and neo-Nazi beliefs, received R-20 rating upon appeal. | ||||||