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Sunday, March 23, 2025
When you make a steam game, Valve wants you to mark various potentially controversial or rating changing content; there was one for prejudice against groups of people, which we flagged as yes due to how certain people in bendy town refer to Gent. Germany bans all games like that due to wide reaching Anti-Semitism laws
If you can entertain me a little more though, how much of the game gets sent to Valve/Steam to actually be reviewed? There was already a couple things that annoying said within the first hour of the game that would have had me clutching my pearls if I was a couple notches more sensitive
We have no idea, or at least I don't. I'll answer this personally, and not as a Dev for this part, but I think steam takes a laissez-faire approach unless it touches on a big societal no no, (outright racism seems fine, but encouraging or inciting for genocide would be a no likely) or stuff involving minors or lack of consent. I don't think this game reaches any of that level, but we did at least consider what the public would think for some material, but usually decided to go with what we thought Gent would do. Steam has historically struck down on things like Rance, also one big Japanese publisher had a game I can't remember but it got removed involving an underaged character.
Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming It's actually pretty important to an extent but steam key copies are nuked algorithmically for reviews
yeah this is kinda fucked up but it has to be this way otherwise you can just give a billion keys to guys in a giveaway and ask them to leave a positive review or whatever