![]() Rape Day, created by developer Desk Plant, is a visual novel with "500 images" and "over 7,000 words" that, according to its Steam page, enables players to "verbally harass, kill, and rape women as choose to progress the story." Its contents include "violence, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, obscene language, necrophilia, and incest." The accompanying, sexually explicit, screenshots are as unpleasant as its text description suggests.ĭesk Plant's game has seemingly been listed on Steam for several weeks now (the first developer update was posted on February 19th), with an estimated release date of "April 2019". Needless to say, some may find the following upsetting. ![]() ORIGINAL STORY 4/3/19: Valve's 'anything goes' content policy has come under fire once more as a game enabling players to "control the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist" is listed on Steam. Rape Day's Steam listing has now been removed. "We respect developers' desire to express themselves," its statement concluded, "and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that." After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think 'Rape Day' poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on Steam." ![]() "We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. "Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary-we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct", it wrote in a new blog post. In light of this, Valve says its decision not to distribute Rape Day on Steam "warrants further explanation." ![]() ![]() Last year, following the furore around school-shooting game Active Shooter, Valve unveiled a new content policy for its digital storefront, announcing that it would "allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling". UPDATE 6/3/19: Valve says it has "decided not to distribute" Rape Day, a sexually explicit game in which, according to its Steam listing page, players are able to "control the choices of a menacing serial killer rapist". ![]()
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