Hi everyone,

I'm releasing an update today that allows users to hide giveaways for mature games. You may have seen them popping up on the homepage or in the featured giveaway section at times, and I'm aware not everyone wants to be exposed to this content. It can also be a turnoff for users visiting the community for the first time.

How it works

  • If you visit your account page, you'll see a new option to "hide mature games".
  • This setting only affects the giveaways you see on the homepage. You are still able to access the giveaways directly, or view them on user profiles.
  • Mature games will be hidden for logged out users.

What games will be classified as mature?

  • The account page includes a link so you can view a list of active giveaways that are currently being hidden with the setting. You can review the list and see if these are giveaways you want to participate in. Keep in mind, this is only a list of mature games with giveaways that are either open or coming soon. In total, we have over 7,500 games flagged in the database as mature.
  • The site automatically classifies games as mature based on their Steam advisory rating, and then moderators have tools to manually add or remove games.
  • The focus is on games that resemble pornography or games where sexual imagery is the focal point of the game (e.g. jigsaw puzzle games, that just contain adult images). A small number of low-effort or asset flip games that try to capitalize on shocking themes and content may also be added to the filter.

We'll do our best to maintain the list. However, you might occasionally see a game appear that shouldn't be there, since games are automatically flagged. We'll try to get these fixed in a timely manner, but please let us know if you see any notable mistakes that persist. Thanks!

4 days ago

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Nice, thank you

4 days ago
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This makes most of my manually hidden games list of 12,231 games, redundant.
And that makes me glad! Now I can be less hide button trigger-happy🥹
TY

4 days ago
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Much appreciated, cg

😎

4 days ago
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Even though I'm fine with viewing these games, this is still a great update. It's best for everyone to choose if they want to view them. Thanks cg!

4 days ago
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cool! a very usefull feature, no doubt, but I won't be using it. Glad it's opt-in for logged in users. thanks cg!

4 days ago
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I can see this benefitting a lotta people that don't like seeing those types of games. Good job!

4 days ago
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This is fabulous and wonderful, thanks cg! Could save me a lot of hiding.

4 days ago
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nice to see highly requested feature get implemented even if I won't use it.

same reason I don't disable it on steam itself... while its alot of junk there are gems in the 18+ stuff.

4 days ago
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shouldnt be those games hidden by default ?
and you can unhide them if you prefer

4 days ago
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Great news, thank you!

4 days ago
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ok, now dark mode. add-ons all add a fraction of lag to every pages load speed
would this hide games like witcher 3? with small amounts of nudity
i just want to hide all the porn

4 days ago
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So you want to hide Witcher 3 as well?

4 days ago
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you and me are playing a very different witcher 3

4 days ago
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I was just curious because you don't know the definition of porn. By the definition of the word, witcher 3 contains porn. It's also rated as such btw. So I wasn't sure which way you were leaning, I now understand if it's a AAA porn game you do want it to show up, just not indie porn games.

4 days ago
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I think they mean games specifically intended as porn, not games with sex scenes. They are fine with Witcher 3, they just don't want to play Big Titty Waifus 3

4 days ago
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Yeah I wasn't sure because he specified he wants to hide all the porn and in the past we had an argument he was very attacked and went off topic and specified about me owning porn games to try to attack me(despite him having some too not including games like the Witcher), so I was curious as to where he draws the line, wasn't sure if he went religious or something and now he can't play games that include nudity or he just doesn't know the definition of the word, hence why I questioned what he meant by "all the porn", since porn includes the witcher and it's rated for that, or I questioned if he meant just indie games.

Now I'm curious as to how he feels about games like HuniePop or the Sakura games. Should those be hidden under this filter or those get a pass? I'm curious as to what indie porn games count or don't. Is it just those with characters created in daz3d, or ai generated puzzles?

Looking at the link CG posted about the current giveaways should this technically be considered a porn game or does it fall under the same category as the witcher : https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/qTVwP/the-rescue-of-mermaids ? This is a random game, but doesn't seem like the landing page on steam focuses on showing the porn aspect it's even censored in the trailer and screenshots. So is this one bad because it's an indie game, but if we get a AAA game with sex in it, it's fine?

PS: I don't play any of these really,, last time I played a game with nudity I think it was CyberPunk 2077, correct me if I'm wrong. I just don't like double standards and associating those indie games with the porn label but not witcher 3 or other games with clearly said content.

https://vocal.media/gamers/top-8-sexually-explicit-video-games just some random article that links a few more AAA's that feature quite bold sexual content imo.

I guess I look at this filter as more like "indie low effort porn games" vs "actual porn games". I guess CG specified the list is made up of whatever they want so that's fair play, and it's being used exactly as I expected so far.

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The Rescue of Mermaids has an on-screen "Horny Meter" lol, I'd call that a porn game, although definitely more game-like than your typical porn game.

To me, the distinction is whether or not the goal of the game is to be fun, or achieve an orgasm for the player. Witcher 3 has nudity, but the main point of the game is an RPG, the nudity is not the focus. Rescue the Mermaids is about playing a minigame and then looking at porn afterwards. I don't recall Witcher 3 having close up images of a penis entering a vagina while you keep track of how close he is to an orgasm

3 days ago
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I'd like to know this too

4 days ago
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yeah i was gonna ask the same thing. i hide all porn games i see on here, but "mature" and "porn" aren't always the same thing. my guess would be that this hides games that are marked 'adult only' by steam. unfortunately, that means hiding the two fear and hunger games (1, 2), and probably some others that i wouldn't want hidden.
probably gonna keep it disabled for now since i only use the wishlist page anyways. only time i see porn games is on featured and sometimes trains. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4 days ago
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Smart move. It will save you some trouble with some countries :) You should make those games hidden by default for new users though - to be extra safe :)

4 days ago
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Thank you!

4 days ago
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Nice feature. I won't use myself. But still it's nice

4 days ago
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This is a fantastic update, thank you for everything you do

4 days ago
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Great addition!

Most of them are already filtered for me (I have manually hidden 21,690 games apparently on SG 😂 - most I'm guessing are asset flips and pornography games), so I'm sure it will be a very helpful filter!

4 days ago
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In total, we have over 7,500 games flagged in the database as mature.

Probably a drop in the ocean considering the amount of porn released daily on Steam :x

Still, that feature was requested pretty often so thanks for implementing it (even though personally I don't particularly care about hiding those games).

4 days ago
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This is a welcome feature. Thanks for adding it.

4 days ago
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Great! Thank you!

4 days ago
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Thank you for allowing me to hide this all at once so I no longer have to manually click the hide button on every new hentai and sex adventure game released. I had 845 games hidden at this point.

4 days ago
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Yes! 99% of these "games" look like the same 3-4 templates with a new title being spammed ad nauseum.

3 days ago
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finally,

4 days ago
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Thank you!

4 days ago
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Sounds lovely, thank you for the effort!

4 days ago
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Thanks you so much! =)

4 days ago
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It can also be a turnoff for users visiting the community for the first time.

Right, and we want the opposite! ...No, wait..! :D

4 days ago
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So, is it also a measure to boost the new registrations? People won't be able to turndown the temptation of joining SG anymore?

3 days ago
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Well, you know nobody can resist it when a site tells them "create an account to access NSFW content." :P

2 days ago
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🤣

20 hours ago
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I must be the only one who can resist that...
you must make an account to see this NSFW content
me: leaves the site and never returns.

I enjoyed the click yes I am 18+ and that's it era of the internet

20 hours ago
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