The new laissez-faire approach was partly a response to the outcry surrounding Valve's approval of Active Shooter (a school-shooting simulator), along with accusations Valve was trying to censor adult visual novels on the platform. This comes in the wake of Valve's June announcement it would "allow everything on Steam" apart from "straight up trolling". Players who wanted to view the full sexual content previously had to download external patches to do so.Īccording to developer Dharker Studios, the game was recently submitted for review following Valve's content filter update, and has now been approved for uncensored release on the 15th of September.
The game in question, Negligee: Love Stories, was originally approved for release on the condition it censored hardcore sex scenes. It seems this update has paved the way for more adult content, as a hentai game has now been approved for uncensored release on Steam. We've reached out to Valve for clarification and will update if we hear back.Last week, Valve unveiled new content filters for Steam to give users the "tools to find the games want, as well as avoid the things don't". Oddly enough, Valve's Steam Direct guidelines still list "pornography" as one of the types of content that "you shouldn't publish on Steam" alongside "content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers." That raises questions of whether there is a line between allowable "adult" content and disallowed "obscene" content on the platform and how exactly that line might be determined. "But it is a big step in the right direction." "On the whole, what Steam have done is not exactly what we wanted it isn't perfect," Dharker Studios wrote in a recent Kickstarter update for Negligee. themes relating to abusive marriages and adultery." themes relating to pressured sexual relationships. That description includes warnings of "illustrations featuring nudity, undressing, and sexual interactions. Loading up the NSFW Steam page for Negligee: Love Stories requires users to log in and read through a detailed description of the game's explicit content before seeing the full store listing or purchasing the game. "We think the context of how content is presented is important, and giving a developer a place to describe and explain what's in their game gives you even more information when browsing and considering a purchase," Valve wrote. Alongside the filters, Valve now also requires developers to describe the "violent or sexual content" in games submitted to the Steam storefront to give potential players more information when browsing the store.
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