Is Valve still censoring adult games on Steam? [Updated]

Enlarge / If you go searching for more information about Taimanin Asagi, you will find screens that are a lot less safe for work than this one. (credit: Taimanin Asagi)

Over a year has passed since Valve announced it would "allow everything" short of illegal and "straight-up trolling" content on the popular Steam game distribution platform. But some adult game makers are discovering there are a few apparent unstated exceptions to this policy.

Visual novel Taimanin Asagi is the latest such game to apparently be pulled from the platform without warning this week. The "eroge" visual-novel series, which was first listed on Steam last month, had all four episodes come down from the service late Tuesday, according to tracker SteamDB.

If Steam still had explicit standards against adult content, Taimanin Asagi is definitely the kind of title you'd expect to be censored on the platform. The game's overarching story about ninjas and demons fighting over the fate of a futuristic Tokyo society quickly devolves to a character being "captured and trained/transformed against their will into a sex slave," according to one synopsis. Extreme scenes of nonconsensual sex and torture are apparently plentiful; Sankaku Gamer noted (NSFW) the game is known for its "colossal amount of rape scenes."

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