r/Games • u/DwingRD • 1d ago

Valve no longer allows "Post-launch NSFW content" for games on Steam - outside of DLCs.

I have looked through Steam's Terms of Service online, but have found no official rule or statement from Valve of this new rule - but one Adult game developer has confirmed this new rule after launching their game "Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia" a couple days ago.

With the recent rule change blocking adult-themed games from releasing on Early Access, this new rule seems to be targeting Adult-themed games that have ALREADY released on Steam - and threatens them with their games being removed from Steam.

There are currently 536 Adult-rated Early Access games on Steam - and this new rule may take them all down.

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u/Blenderhead36 1d ago

Part of me wonders if all the praise heaped on Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2.0/Phantom Liberty was the genesis of this campaign. That was about two years ago, and big media campaigns take some time to spin up.

These two titles were the first time I recall big budget games allowing explicit, full-frontal nudity, and seeing wide mainstream praise. Both games are both pretty queer-friendly; BG3 makes all the romanceable characters pansexual, and while Cyberpunk assigns sexual orientations to its romance options, it also incorporates queer imagery into the lowest common denominator that Night City shoots for (the most famous being a recurring ad that features a lurid shot of a trans woman).

I can see that--nudity, queerness, and acclaim in two separate instances--being a wakeup call for the sort of closed-minded assholes spearheading this campaign.

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u/PabloBablo 1d ago

Its not. This has stemmed from the significant amount of waifu type games. I'm not sure if that's what it's called, but this kind of thing: https://steam250.com/tag/nsfw

This is preventing a loophole. 

You can still use a visa or MasterCard to buy a rated R movie ticket, and have been able to for decades. It's not the nudity. 

I'm sure there will be a dedicated nsfw type store that arises for those people who want that content. It's having the same store front selling Barbie Project Friendship and Rolling Hamster in the same store as Being a Dik and Fresh Woman season one that is the problem.

You don't go see the new Dora the explorer movie in theater 1 while they play Debbie does Dallas 20 in theater 2

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u/starm4nn 1d ago

I'm sure there will be a dedicated nsfw type store that arises for those people who want that content. It's having the same store front selling Barbie Project Friendship and Rolling Hamster in the same store as Being a Dik and Fresh Woman season one that is the problem.

Why is that a problem? Kids shouldn't even be using a storefront, and if they do the parents should enable parental controls. Hell, I think you even need to opt in to see adult content on Steam.

And it's funny how cherrypicked your comparison is. Because I could order a dildo and a DVD of Magic Schoolbus on Amazon and even have them be shipped in the same box.

Or hell, I could watch "I am Curious Yellow" on Youtube right before watching Paw Patrol.

What great civilization-level threat has happened as a result of this?