Grand Theft Auto VI has been rated PEGI 18 in Europe, and the ratings board's now-deleted description of the game spells out content the series has never shown this directly, including sex scenes and drugs the player can use on demand. According to VGC, PEGI published the rating on Friday before quickly removing it from its website, though Eurogamer reports fans had already saved and circulated the listing. The game launches on November 19, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox, per Gamebonk's release tracker.
What the rating describes
PEGI's summary calls the game's drug use "frequent and prominent," saying the player can take drugs alongside other characters and "use illegal drugs directly from their inventory." The board singles out cocaine, which it says the player can carry and snort from their hand "at any time."
That is a shift for the series, Eurogamer notes. Previous GTA protagonists have mostly dealt drugs rather than taken them, and the bongs in GTA 5 and GTA Online are generally tied to player-owned apartments rather than something you carry around the map.
The listing also covers sexual content. PEGI lists "nudity, scenes of intercourse and occasional scenes of sexual fetishes," and says that during paid private dances in nightclubs, players can move their hands onto the dancers' breasts and buttocks. Eurogamer reports that a separate age rating released earlier had already pointed to GTA 6 being the first entry to directly depict sex scenes, and the PEGI text backs that up.
On violence, the board describes it as bloody and highly realistic, with players able to harm any character in the world. Some weapons can cause "detailed decapitation and dismemberment," it says. VGC adds that domestic animals appear and can be hurt, though PEGI says this does not produce the same injury detail as attacks on humans.
“The current leaks are far less consequential than HC was.”A former Grand Theft Auto developer
ESRB rating and the Hot Coffee comparison
The PEGI listing follows the ESRB's official rating for Rockstar's game, which confirmed an M for Mature days earlier, according to VGC.
VGC also points back to Hot Coffee, the hidden sex minigame found in the code of GTA San Andreas after its 2004 release, which brought legal backlash and a warning from the FTC. A former Grand Theft Auto developer who worked at Rockstar North during that period has argued that recent leaks matter far less to the studio. "The current leaks are far less consequential than HC was," the developer wrote, adding that GTA 6 looks like it will "sell for the next 15 years or so."
