We reached out to the developers involved in order to receive updates on the situation, and to Funcom and CD Projekt RED to verify whether or not they have been affected by Valve’s warnings. At the moment there are no reports from their developers about having received similar notices, even if this does not necessarily mean that they didn’t. It’s also relevant to mention that there are plenty of games that don’t involve this kind of art style but include plenty of sexual content and nudity, like The Witcher series, or Conan Exiles. The situation appears to be certainly odd, especially considering that games like Huniepop are already censored exactly to comply with Steam’s guidelines, and their sexual content can only be restored via external patches. This threatens the future livelihood of any developer even wanting to work on Visual Novels in the future, this threatens the very fabric of the medium itself, when THE largest sales platform can just pull your game without justification or reason at any moment.
We are not sleazebags making horrific pornography, we’re a strongly queer VN studio that makes sexy games, that is not wrong, that is not pornographic, nudity is also not wrong as a massive amount of Steam’s library has nudity, and Mutiny!! follows those content guidelines! In the future this could easily extend to anyone who even makes visual novels no matter how ‘sexy’ they might appear to be.
Games are being pulled simply because they look a certain way and there is a stigma behind the look of a game. while funding for #DizzyHearts is secure, Mutiny!! was our biggest title, this threatens our future when a platform like can decide on a whim to just pull our games even when we follow their guidelines. Every developer big & small, no matter how much they followed Steam’s guidelines to the letter is having games pulled.įrom Huniepop, to SonoHanabira, to Mutiny!!, the message is clear, if your game has sexy anime-inspired art in it, get it gone, while western games which are 100x more pornographic content escape unscathed. It seems this new change violates what Valve agreed to before, and the entirety of the Visual Novel genre on Steam is feeling the effects of this nuclear option. After our Steam publisher met with Valve in person, they were told that ecchi content was fine on steam. In fact has been one of the strictest developers in terms of following Steam’s guidelines, and absolutely nothing in Mutiny!! violates their guidelines. Now those of you who know know that we don’t put that on Steam, or advertise that content on Steam.
We’ve just received some troubling news today that has decided to pull down our titled “Mutiny!!” within 2 weeks for ‘reports of pornographic content’. They also maintain that their game does respect Steam’s guidelines. Mutiny!! developer Lupiesoft provided a more extensive comment on the situation, that you can see below in its entirety. We have been informed that adult content in Tropical Liquor must be censored by the end of this month or the game will be removed from Steam. I’ve received an e-mail from Valve stating that HuniePop violates the rules & guidelines for pornographic content on Steam and will be removed from the store unless the game is updated to remove said content. Below you can read a few examples from Huniepop developer Huniepot and Tropical Liquor developer Neko Works.
So far, we have seen this kind of report only from developers working on visual novels or games with a markedly anime-ish art style.
HUNIEPOP UNCENSORED PATCH NON STEAM DOWNLOAD
Multiple game developers have been tweeting about warnings received from Valve about the content included in their games distributed on Steam.Īpparently, the company behind the popular digital download platform is cracking down on quasi-sexual content, threatening the developers involved of removal if the games are not censored before the deadline.