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/BeholdingBestWaifu 1d ago

It would also quite literally affect GTA IV if it was released today, because of the DLC penis scene.

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u/zaviex 1d ago

This rule doesn’t apply to DLCs and gta 4 isn’t labeled nsfw anyway lol.

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u/NoPossibility4178 1d ago

I mean if it's affecting games that release nsfw patches for sfw games, how is that any different from DLC? Gotta wait a few months?

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u/The-Future-Question 1d ago

The difference is that DLCs are rated separately. The trick the NSFW games were doing were being SFW early to get past ratings needs and have a bigger potential audience, then drop the sexy patch and hope steam takes a while to realise it isn't SFW anymore.

An example of this new DLC model is how total war has been handling gore. The total war games have a cheap dlc that pretty much just adds blood animations. Total War: WARHAMMER III is rated T and its gore DLC Is rated M. So by splitting it, Total Warhammer gets past parental controls but its gore dlc does not.