Is A Game of Thrones Clean? Profanity and Content Guide for the Audiobook
A substantial share of the book gets filtered, and most listeners will choose to skip a meaningful amount.
33h 46m audiobook, 560 filtered segments, 3.8% of the runtime gets skipped at full strength.
I picked this up knowing full well what I was walking into, and I still found myself reaching for the filter more often than I expected. A Game of Thrones lands in the Heavy bucket, and that label is earned. The 33 hours and 46 minutes of Roy Dotrice's narration are genuinely gripping, but 560 tagged segments add up fast, and the mix of content here is not just quantity. it is variety. You are looking at moderate-to-severe violence stretched across more than 28 minutes of filtered runtime, sexual content that crosses into explicit territory across 14 severe segments, and a slur count where 26 of 28 tags are severe. That last number is the one I want you to sit with before you decide. The profanity is manageable with filters on. The crude humor barely registers. But the violence and sexual content are woven tightly into the plot, and some of the longest filtered scenes run close to three minutes each. Chapter 33 is worth knowing about before you get there, a cluster of eight segments in one chapter that hits more than one category at once. The good news is that all of this is human-reviewed, so you are making real decisions with real data rather than guessing. My honest recommendation: if you are listening alone and can run all filters, you can finish the book and keep the story intact. It is the same book, same narrator, same story, just cleaned up where it counts. I would not put this on in the car with kids, and I would think carefully before recommending it to anyone who finds severe slurs genuinely distressing regardless of filtering.
What we filtered
| Category | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profanity | 144 | 189 | 10 | 343 | 3m 43s |
| Slur | 1 | 1 | 26 | 28 | 19s |
| Blasphemy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11s |
| Violence | 21 | 69 | 11 | 101 | 28m 25s |
| Sexual Content | 21 | 22 | 14 | 57 | 42m 38s |
| Crude Humor | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1m 43s |
| Substance Use | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 44s |
Profanity, by word: 103 b-st-rd, 60 Mild Insults, 54 d-mn, 30 wh-r-, 17 cr-ppl-, and 90 more across 12 other words. (Word-level filters let you keep some words and skip others. Your library, your rules.)
The heaviest single chapter: Chapter 33, with 8 filtered segments across all categories.
The longest single scene we flagged runs about 2m 45s in Chapter 297 and falls under sexual content.
What you get back when you filter A Game of Thrones on AudioHaven
- Same book, same story.
- About 1h 17m of total filterable runtime, which you choose to keep or skip by category and by severity.
- Real-time skipping. The book plays straight through, with a soft cut where each segment lives.
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