There's nothing that separates the content in Mutiny!! or Huniepop from any other mature, properly approved and highly acclaimed mature games on Steam. I have to reiterate that it's a huge double standard, and it's unfair treatment that a game like Mutiny!! is judged to be 'dirty & scummy' this way on art alone, when the same game with a Witcher label is "classy & mature". We're not going to censor our game further to try and skirt under this. This change has us frankly worried as you can imagine.įinally, I asked the important question of how exactly they will handle this situation in regards to their game on Steam: If that means our next title should be more, or less pornographic to make it as successful as we know it can be. That's just what I notice happening right now, but i'm not 100% sure what it means long term. It's harder to get noticed, the community engagement is shrinking. While Steam currently has the biggest market share, many of the biggest publishers are seeing less reason to publish their games on Steam, while indie devs are being surrounded with mass produced meme games, the VN scene is also seeing a lot of google translated, horribly implemented, tested VNs coming to the platform. I think adult gaming market is growing exponentially while Steam has been slowly dying. "I think if Mutiny!! was a realistic 3D adventure game with puzzles & top nudity it'd have a way different reaction both from Valve and the mainstream yes."Īs for the state of the current adult game market, they had the following to say: I asked if perhaps their game would have been treated differently if it were in another art style other than anime. "Like I said in my thread, there's a huge stigma that exists against people who do this style of art, when if we did it in a 3D realistic style, no one would care." "It's the only explanation that makes sense to me why the most benign sexy anime games would be targeted in this way," the Lupiesoft representative continued. It's a blanket assumption made that Visual Novel + Sexy Anime Art = Extreme Porn." "I have my feelings that it's Valve reacting to certain extreme examples of developers actually putting porn onto Valve, and have basically gone after any game with sexy/suggestive art. "I don't know for sure, but I feel it's a deliberate purge," they began. I asked Lupiesoft why they and HuniePot are receiving this notice now of all times. Instead, as one of ten points which includes Hate Speech and content you don't own, Pornography is listed as something you cannot publish on Steam, lacking any further details on what they consider when deciding what to allow or not. We looked into the guidelines Steam currently lists surrounding this topic and found they are exceptionally vague. They assert that there is nothing in their games as they are distributed on Steam that would qualify as "pornography" by any definition save for topless women, something that features in a wide range of titles ranging from indie games to AAA titles. They've privately shared screenshots of an e-mail they claim was sent by Valve which follows a similar pattern to the situation HuniePot has described: a claim of violation, a two week time limit to make changes, and no specifics listed.
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Update #2: We've heard back from LupieSoft on this issue. Mutiny!!, a visual novel set on a fantasy airship, is one of the titles that was apparently singled out by Valve for adult content. Additionally, the HuniePot representative stated that "it's certainly surprising to see this notice after being on Steam for over 3 years with no such problems." Their game was stated as containing pornographic material, but there was no indication of what material Valve took issue with. In their response, they stated that Valve did not mention where the complaint was sourced from, only that a complaint was received. Update: We've heard back from a representative from HuniePop 's developer HuniePot.
įurther updates with more details are appended to the bottom of this article as they come in. If you know of any other devs not on this list that have been affected by this issue, please drop us a line at. This list has been corroborated by the blog Rockmandash Reviews. Update #5: The following is a list of developers (and their games, if known) that have allegedly received an e-mail from Valve stating that they must remove pornographic content from their games.
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