save Steam release of Chaos:head - giveaway added - we won out on Oct 7

Valve has take back some of their decisions before in the past about banned games so I will keep my hope up.

Dude just please change your wording then, this way it's just confusing.

Seeing that their other pc games are on steam and not on other storefronts, i doubt that they dont want to release it on steam. I believe that doing the adjustment will either take longer than what their schedule is allowed to or change a big amount of content just for steam. Or maybe they just arent sure which content was flagged by steam.

they don't want to release on Steam if they have to censor a great deal of the game

so it's up on Switch but it's too much for Steam?
and I thought it was Nintendo with the draconian content policies...

I mean come on, they probably have a good reason or it was a mistake

They really don't. Right now, you have crappy visual novels on Steam about eating feces, having sex with corpses, and far worse stuff that I'm not even gonna type out here. There is a lot of inconsistency at Valve and considering approval is purely manual, a lot of things could be speculated here.

All things considered, a visual novel with only a hint of a lesbian relationship can be banned right away while something called SEX with HITLER is fine according to Steam.

I mean, this same game will be released on NINTENDO SWITCH of all places but somehow Valve found something wrong about it (we still don't know what though)

🙄Thanks for the good info.

If this was the reason for the NG, we need to push Gabe off the boat and put him on a swimming diet.
(Just kidding, of course.)
However, the reasons for Valve's rejection would need to be clear.

It will lead to speculation that the approval criteria are greatly stricter or easier based on nationality or region.
This could happen not only with this game, but with others as well, and the more indie game developers are, the more serious the impact will be.🤔

I regard this behavior as digital terrorism. Given that all this is organized by people who (apparently) want to make money.

Seems like they just got my attention 🤔

drum up sales? you mean sales of this game? so to get more sales the best tactic is to not be on the most popular (and for many) the only pc platform they will use and instead only be sold on the Nintendo Switch - which many don't have (Googled sales and said 91 million and nearly 68 million people in UK alone)

Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case as it wouldn't be the first time someone uses that tactic, but it seems a bit odd for an established series as the " ; " one (I don't think the Stains;Gate universe actually has a name, at least not as far as I'm aware).
My suspicion is that the game actually fucked up big time somewhere (my bet is on explicit pedophilia) or it's yet another case of Valve deciding this time they'll have standards all of a sudden. There's also the possibility that the only reason they blocked this specific release on Steam is that they would need to actively promote it because of some contract so they can't just shove it under the rug as they usually do with anything questionable.

i know you always get one - this was not about the game in the first place it was about making the rules more clear - i mean if i could that Witcher game would be in the bin but people should be aloud to play what they want

Don't need to feed the lone troll. Let him cry in a corner.

Yeah, that's crazy to me. Honestly I don't think Nintendo actually knows what's in it, otherwise I think they probably wouldn't let it launch. With this making headlines, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo becomes aware of it and stops the launch.

I don't care for visual novels and I don't know anything about the series. I was curious why it was banned on Steam so I went looking. What I mentioned in my comment is what people who played the game said is in it.

I also didn't remember anything about sex and orgies, but then I was reminded that the main character has a lot of delusions (either sexual or gore) and that some of them are indeed disturbing. Most of them are not depicted on screen and you only have text, but the text is very explicit on what is happening
(I have played the original not Noah)

It was a reference to the campaign that started to get Dark Souls on PC. It got a huge traction, and it got an official response from From Software. Eventually Dark Souls got released on PC, and every single game from From Software eventually got released on PC (barring exclusives because exclusives are shit)

I dare to say, the fact that the Steam Deck actually needs more visual novels, perfect for a system like that. Also, it was already on the switch, there were multiple media reports about that, there are multiple porn games on steam, and CHAOS;HEAD is not even a porn game, etc, etc. At the end, probably the one in charge of reviewing the visual novels, that apparently had a hate boner against japanese visual novels, considering how many were getting rejected, was removed from the post.

Can't say much about this case but banning anime stuff from Valve was usually due to human factors. A former dev of Campo Santo is now working there and he was pretty vocal on Twitter about his dislike for anime & visual novels and how much he enjoys banning them

Human factor (like xarabas and quijote3000 say), some people just hate anime (probably: boomers) and take their personal opinion to work. That why Valve really need do clean house and boot out those who can`t disconnect their personal opinion from work. (or make better review processes like cutting some power from too ban-happy reviewer because we have Reddit mod problem)