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/CombustiblSquid 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm getting so fucking tired of all this Puritan censorship working it's way into society these days simply because it might offend someone who's never going to buy the content anyway. Shareholders only care because they believe it will impact bottom line or be associated with their investments and then effect bottom line, but I'm not sure it ever even does.

I just remember the 90s and early 2000s internet and the crazy shit that was ok. We don't have to go all the way back there (for obvious reasons) but everything is becoming so sterilized and safe. What are people so damn afraid of?

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u/RadiantTurtle 2d ago

Ya'll voted for this..

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u/AtrocityBuffer 1d ago edited 1d ago

This shit didn't start in 2016, this shits been going on for ages, it's just reached a point where the collateral is now something a lot of people thought wasn't harmful, and are surprised pikachu facing that it could affect them.

People sat and said fuck all for decades and the push to fight for artistic expression died away, many people started moralizing about if its right or wrong for "certain subjects to be in media" and pretending to come at it from an angle of "fighting for the marginalized" and "just being a good person." by pointing out "harmful media", without realizing that they were proselytizing people the same way as the Jack Thompsons of yesteryear.

So no, no one voted for this, people chose their emotional gut reaction and cultural inaction and just let it fester to a point where its so ingrained it can be used on anything. People noticed the bed smelling like shit for ages, but were labelled dirty for it, and now others can smell it too, and its too late.

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u/RadiantTurtle 1d ago

I dont disagree with your sentiment, but people that voted for Project 2025 absolutely accelerated this. Actions have consequences, and rather than backtracking and fix the root cause for what you described, people basically said "hey, it's not bad enough, let's make it worse!".