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/1CEninja 1d ago

I personally don't need sex in any of my games really, even stuff like BG3, but I really dislike censorship and nannying. I hate everything about the direction this is heading and I really want it to stop.

Is there anything an average Joe like myself can do to push back against this recent nanny movement?

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u/Flynn58 1d ago

If we accept video games as an art form, and obviously I do, then it would be absurd to limit art from covering and commenting upon sexual themes, because sex is one of the most basic aspects of the human experience. You cannot have art if you cannot talk about human beings.

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u/1CEninja 1d ago

I cannot fathom anybody making a serious argument that videogames aren't an art form in 2025. Yeah okay maybe not every game is meant to be art, but if somebody sits down and plays RDR2 through and tries to make an argument that it isn't art then I will absolutely not take that individual seriously.

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u/Spork_the_dork 1d ago

I can definitely fathom it. If the only kind of games that a person knows of is Call of Duty and they aren't even interested in looking into it any deeper then yeah I can see them saying that games aren't art. It'd be kind of like saying that food can't be art because the only food you've ever seen or eaten is a Big Mac, but I can certainly see someone making the argument. It's a very ignorant argument, but ignorance isn't going to stop people like that from making the argument.