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!

7 months ago

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That is an amazing addition to the site; 90% of my blacklist is exactly stuff like this. I also appreciate having a list that shows which games would be hidden, so I can see what I'm "missing out on". I think it would be great if that list also linked to either the active GAs in question, or the game's specific SG entry (the one you get when you click on the magnifying glass, whatever that is called); so users can more easily access them in case they are interested in one of those games.

In any case, thank you for the update!

7 months ago*
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the list link in the op shows the games included

7 months ago
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I don't understand the reason to hide mature games from unlogged visitors, except to avoid offending the tender feelings of underage bots.

7 months ago
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Hm, wouldn't it be better for the setting to automatically be on by default?

When a user registers it should be on and they can go and turn it off if they want to see mature content, that's usually the way it works with mature content on platforms isn't it?

7 months ago
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They will able to, but only in case if they find the place with these settings at all

7 months ago
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https://www.steamgifts.com/mature-games

I noticed there is no pagination in the list above, is it just me or a bug?

I tried manually appending /search?page=2 the the url but that didn't work.

7 months ago
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Keep in mind, this is only a list of mature games with giveaways that are either open or coming soon

7 months ago
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oh I see, I thought it was a master list of all 7500 mature-tagged games.

7 months ago
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Thank you very much. Hiding them manually gets tiresome after a while.

7 months ago
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Is there also a function planned that shows only these games?
Asking for a friend...

7 months ago
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Thank you so much!
This is an amazingly appreciated feature!

7 months ago
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Great feature, thanks!

7 months ago
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big update, thanks cg

7 months ago
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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.

Glad to see shovelware junk hidden, but can't help but wonder if games like Fear & Hunger, Lust from Beyond and similar ones would be affected as well.

7 months ago
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There seems to be 2 "lust for/from" giveaways and they are not in the list of "active and hidden". This could be oversight (its not THAT popular giveaway VS those thousands of jigsaw ones..) or intended as its "Survival horror with adult themes" vs "90% Porn with 10% spooky text"

7 months ago*
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thank you, awesome update!!!

7 months ago
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Thanks a lot for the update. I sometimes have my kid sitting next to me and I really don't need him to see a giveaway for 100 copies of some weird fetish game. The third party script I was using was too slow often.

7 months ago
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Thank you so much, I'm happy that you've finally got to add this much-needed feature! I just hope that mods will actually exclude games with "mature" tag that shouldn't be on the list (like Firewatch or The Cat Lady) - but I definitely welcome an ability to filter out hentai nastiness.

7 months ago*
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Good it's an automatic process with a manual touch. I wouldn't envy the mod who'd browse the main SG page manually, to filter out those usually trash games 😆

View attached image.
7 months ago
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Thank you, it's so tiresome to manually add them all when they spam the site.

(even tho I'm sure it will be hard to keep the list updated for admins too)

Now, important question...would a game like HuniePop be on that list? Asking for a friend....

7 months ago
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yay finally this "games" get not listed, hooray!

7 months ago
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I would prefer a Hide Adult Games list instead of Mature Games that might cover some really good stuff like witcher and kingdom come

7 months ago
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Yeah that sounds a little weird to me too.
I just checked the current list of games being hidden, which includes The Last of Us Part II
I mean... I haven't played the game but I doubt it rises to the level of Furry Futa Hentai Sex Adventures or whatever.
And if we're going to also start hiding violent games, then all the FPS games are going too...?

6 months ago
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Found one that wasn't filtered out for some reason: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/zy0wn/kajuns-lucid-room

Is there a better way to report these?

6 months ago
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Like above, not sure Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is supposed to be filtered

6 months ago
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Seems it was removed now.

6 months ago
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FINALLY! I'm so sick of having to see them. Can't thank you enough.

6 months ago
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Would it be possible to release the full list of every hidden game?

6 months ago
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Thanks! :)

6 months ago
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). 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.

Thank you so much ! <3

6 months ago
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It's been four days since I turned on the mature filter and I feel nothing but bliss.
Thank you again!!!

6 months ago
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Thank you so much 💙

6 months ago
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