For now, it seems that Valve will continue to "allow everything" in theory while still disallowing certain games in practice, without any clear standards to decipher those decisions. Valve hasn't responded to Ars Technica's request for comment on this issue, so we (like many adult game makers) are stuck acting like Kremlinologists guessing at the inner workings of Valve's Moscow. Failing that, at the very least it should mean clearly communicating why certain games are removed from the service and highlighting the line between what kinds of content are and are not allowable under the current rubric. But taking a hands-off position on moderation requires actually keeping your hands off of adult content that some might find objectionable. The use of rape as a plot point doesn't push the content into the "illegal" bucket, either, as countless examples across other media have shown.įurther Reading Op-ed: Valve takes a side by not “taking sides” in curation controversyThat's a defensible position for an online storefront to take, even though it comes with an implicit value judgement on what kind of content Valve wants associated with its storefront. That doesn't seem to be an issue with Taimanin Asagi, which focuses on adult characters. cut out," according to one review.īut those and other removed Steam titles may have gotten in trouble for including children (or visually child-like characters) as romantic interests, possibly running afoul of child-pornography laws in the United States. In January, the developer behind puzzle-infused dating sim HuniePop 2 tweeted that it would be censoring the Steam version of the game because "Valve said it was fine, but it's become quite clear since then that it's not." Visual novel Hello Goodbye was also removed from the platform in December, though it came back four months later with "a lot of the mature content.
While other uncensored adult games have found a home on Steam under Valve's "allow everything" policy, Taimanin Asagi isn't the first erotic title to face problems on the service.
Extreme scenes of nonconsensual sex and torture are apparently plentiful Sankaku Gamer noted (NSFW) the game is known for its "colossal amount of rape scenes." The game's overarching story about ninjas and demons fighting over the fate of a futuristic Tokyo society quickly devolves to a character being "captured and trained/transformed against their will into a sex slave," according to one synopsis. If Steam still had explicit standards against adult content, Taimanin Asagi is definitely the kind of title you'd expect to be censored on the platform. The "eroge" visual-novel series, which was first listed on Steam last month, had all four episodes come down from the service late Tuesday, according to tracker SteamDB. Visual novel Taimanin Asagi is the latest such game to apparently be pulled from the platform without warning this week. But some adult game makers are discovering there are a few apparent unstated exceptions to this policy. Over a year has passed since Valve announced it would "allow everything" short of illegal and "straight-up trolling" content on the popular Steam game distribution platform.
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