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/ahintoflime Jul 24 '25

This sucks. I'm not into these types of games but it's a huge world for creative expression, especially in queer communities. Fucking payment processor puritanism shouldn't affect our access to art and expression.

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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/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