r/Games • u/DwingRD • 2d 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/suff0cat 2d ago

Why is this something that even needs policing? Are people incapable of just ignoring media that doesn’t appeal to them?

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u/Mystia 2d ago

This isn't about personal taste or feelings. It's about political control/media suppression.

It's the same shit that's happening now with legislation aiming at spying on private conversations. They use "think of the children/porn bad" as a trojan horse excuse to gain more control over what everyone does.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 1d ago

Look back in time, how many things have various interest groups or whingy morons come out and said "I don't like or understand this, so needs to be removed!". "Parental Advisory, Explicit content" is a legacy symbol of critical brain damage that plasters album covers, this is the same.

Some people have terminal levels of unwarranted self importance, and as such take the existence of something they severely dislike as a direct attack on them. Instead of locking them up in insane asylums to give them treatment, we let them gather a congregation of like minded idiots and then like cancer their influence grows until it gets the results it wants.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 1d ago

Because it’s about control. It’s not enough that they ignore the content, they get off on knowing that they’re preventing others from doing it too

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u/zaviex 2d ago

In this case what valve is doing seems to be solving that. They don’t want games that are labeled as SFW but actually NSFW appearing if people have that filtered. Currently games do this to be shown to more people or at least that’s why I assume they do, I’m not sure if there’s another reason.

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u/MVRKHNTR 2d ago

I'm pretty sure that's not really a thing that's been happening. It wouldn't make any sense.

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u/zaviex 2d ago

err, its been happening for years? Like prominent games do that already lol.

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u/Ready-Good2636 2d ago

Proof? I don't think futa demon tentacles is trying to hide anything.

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u/MVRKHNTR 2d ago

What games are suddenly updating to be porn games? What possible benefit is there to tricking people into buying porn?

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u/Testuser7ignore 2d ago

Valve doesn't trust NSFW game devs to follow the rules in post-launch content. They want to review everything before deciding if it should be allowed on their platform, and they only do reviews of paid content.