Valve He makes his guidelines regarding the content “only for adults” in order to satisfy the rules set by partners for processing Steam payments, with dozens of sex games from the platform throughout the week.
As noted by Gamespark and made available by MachineSteamdb journals Show a lot of activities behind the scenes because Steam has updated its “principles and guidelines” policyAn explanation that publishing “certain types” of content only for adults can violate it.
The newly added clause 15 rules clearly shows “content that may violate the rules and standards specified by Steam payment processors and related networks of card and banks or internet network suppliers” should not be published on Steam.
Account X / Twitter for Steamdb has revealed a long list of pornographic games recently removed from Steam.
This is probably related to PayPal, because people in some regions have not been able to operate it to pay on Steam for the last five days.
Perma link to the list of moving from the store: https://t.co/vy44q0hvgn
– Steamdb (@Steamdb) July 16, 2025
Takes place after public outrage at the beginning of this year, when Technology secretary in Great Britain Peter Kyle slammed Steam to the host of the sexual visual novel in which the hero got involved in inconspicuous sexual contact, including rape and incest. The developer Zerat Games finally announced that he would voluntarily withdraw a visual novel after removing it from sales in Great Britain, Canada and Australia.
However, the up-to-date Valve guidelines were criticized by some who expressed concern with the censorship and ambiguity of the Valve language around its principles.
We have previously reported today Co -founder Valve and boss Gabe Newell, who offered a uncommon insight into his He calls a “boat” days of life, work and enjoying life on a superyacht.
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