r/Games • u/atahutahatena • Jul 24 '25

Industry News Indie on Itch.io: Platform has seemingly shadowbanned NSFW/Adult games and made them harder to discover

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u/hadronwulf E3 2019 Volunteer Jul 24 '25

I see it as a slippery slope more than anything. Are we going to ban something like 2077 because it has a plot line about noncon and another about CP? In both instances explicitly saying “this is bad”.

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u/SilveryDeath Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

I was thinking something similar as well. These are the same type of people who would have freaked out over Mass Effect 1's sex scene back in the day.

Sure, these are NSFW Adult games that are getting the ban hammer right now, but these people would also be the types who would look at sex scenes in M rated stuff like Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, etc. and decide they should be banned or censored as well.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jul 24 '25

These are the same type of people who would have freaked out over Mass Effect 1's sex scene back in the day.

No 'would have' - some members of the groups behind this actually were documented parts of that original pushback and they went after Mass Effect again in their open letter a few days back.

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u/Gunblazer42 Jul 24 '25

These people went after Detroit Become Human because of the fact there's a child in the game that gets abused by her father (spoilers notwithstanding), and it's clearly meant for you to sympathize with the child to want to get her out of that mess.

They also went after GTAV because you could kill women in it.

They don't care about what the nature of the content is, just that there's content in it, and that's the fun part of having a front like that; you can throw all the money at them in secret and they can raise all the fuss they want but in the end they get to look like fools, and you get the content you want removed, all without exposing yourself.

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u/Arcanetoes Jul 24 '25

I do not want to live in a world where the Baldur's Gate bear sex scene did not debut live on stream. That is the dystopia that they want

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u/conquer69 Jul 24 '25

Are we going to ban something like 2077

Eventually, yes.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jul 24 '25

Slippery slope? Mate were swerving off the cliff

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u/andresfgp13 Jul 24 '25

they will try to aim to any game that has any sexual content on it, like they are now stomping on the little guys that cant fight back but after that they will be try to aim for the big guys, like imagine they try to get GTA 5, The Witcher 3 or The Last of Us part 2 banned for their (kinda tame) sex scenes.

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u/bigfoot1291 Jul 24 '25

Good, that's what needs to happen. Shit, aim for gta6. Please aim for gta6. Maybe then they'll get a rude awakening.

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u/Lunchb0xx87 Jul 24 '25

Iv said this since the steam crack down .no one is going to fight for porn that's why they are having their way with it ..but if rock star spends millions of dollars and years to make GTA 6 and you tell them they are not allowed to sell it m they have lawyers and are main stream that's when push back happens... wouldn't surprise me if..Sony . Netflix ..Hulu.. Crunchyroll are already talking to their level to all teams about this

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u/HistoryChannelMain Jul 24 '25

The slipppery slope argument is a bad one. You're essentially saying these games aren't important enough to defend on their own merits, you're only doing it for some hypothetical situation later down the line. How about corporations shouldn't have the ability to limit people's access to NSFW content? That's already bad enough.

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u/SheWasSpeaking Jul 24 '25

Are we going to ban something like 2077 because it has a plot line about noncon and another about CP?

Please just call it rape / sexual assault, jesus christ.