Developers of the controversial game even set up a new site for games that are ‘too morally reprehensible for Steam’.
for allowing a game called Rape Day onto Steam, a game which described itself as allowing players to ‘verbally harass, kill, and rape women as you choose to progress the story’.
Valve has made a point before of not judging the content of games on Steam, but it seems this one was so extreme they’ve made an exception. ‘Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary – we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct’, reads a short‘We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam.
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