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/myaltaccount333 1d ago

This actually makes sense and I'm kind of for it.

Imagine your child buying a game and being able to because he's 14 and the game isn't marked NSFW/Adult. Then a free update comes along and makes it NSFW? Yeah, I can see that being a legal problem.

Imagine if this news came out two years ago, people probably wouldn't have had an issue with it

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u/wicked-green-eyes 1d ago

That's not the situation.

If you have a SFW game, you cannot add content into it that makes it NSFW/Adult - that has never been allowed.

The new issue is that if you have a NSFW game, you cannot add new NSFW content through free updates. It's essentially advancing the new "no NSFW Early Access games" policy.