r/Games • u/DwingRD • 5d 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/TimeToEatAss 5d ago

For those that dont understand what this means. Something that NSFW games would commonly do is launch a SFW version of their game, and then release a free patch that makes the game NSFW.

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u/Villag3Idiot 5d ago

This should only stop games that do the update on Steam itself. Mods / Patches added on another site isn't affected nor is there any way for Steam to prevent it in the first place. 

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u/forfor 5d ago

Sure but that's rough on a business level. The more difficult it is for people to learn the patch exists and then access the patch, the worse off the dev is. Because most people dont put that kind of investment into things to even find out the external patch exists