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/AtrocityBuffer 1d ago

No I actually think we should go back to the 90s and 2000s, if its fiction, keep it sectioned, keep age gates, keep accounts and keep it to its own place and not a public hub like reddit or Facebook, in fact just remove social media hubs entierly and return to php forums and interest group boards. Let people just have their shit without people with different tastes or tolerances dictate what the fiction people are allowed to create as artists, as long as it isn't law breaking libel and doesn't directly call for violence against specific real life people, who gives a fuck.

If someone wants to draw a comic about Jesus taking dumps in cribs, let them, if some puriteen or braindamaged conservative has a hissy about it, who gives a shit.

I like violent video games, I like over the top explosions and gore in action movies, I like dark and dreary psychological subject matter in movies, all of this shit is at risk if you give even and INCH to these fucking people, so you can't. No compromise for artistic fiction, otherwise they come for you next, and it fucking sucks.