RELATED: Best-Rated $60 Games on Steam (& Worst)ĭue to the overwhelming number of visual novels on Steam, it is difficult for fans to know where to start. Steam has a varied library of visual novels in 2020 that fans of all genres can enjoy. Fans of this increasingly popular medium know that there are amazing stories embedded in these games. We'll update this story if Valve makes any further statements about its policies.Visual Novels are interactive story games, usually accompanied by anime-inspired visuals. PC Gamer contacted Valve regarding the recalled takedown notices during our initial reporting of the story, and the company declined to comment. 'In a perfect world we would have the choice to simply pick the censored copy or the uncensored one, or have options in the games menu.' 'The choice we have now is a very flawed system, as patch links go down, patches can be lost or no longer supported for newer versions of the games, sometimes requiring mods or simply being lost to time,' says Marusame. Websites like eBay already have adult sections… but with family sharing, and Steam's most likely outdated system, implementing all of this would be a huge hassle, so I feel they made the decision to simply self-regulate and self-censor,' he says. I see no reason why Steam couldn’t have an adult section that takes credit card only. 'I believe that many censorship decisions are simply made because of the whims of payment processors not wanting to accept such transactions. That includes making the decision to withhold certain titles from Steam that we would have sold there otherwise under the old policies and content guidelines.' Luckily for us we also sell our products in their completely uncensored and uncut form on our own storefront-so we'll continue doing so there without any changes, but going forward we're going to have to reconsider what degree of content has to be cut in order to retail on Steam.

'This incident has given us more reasons to be grateful to GOG and excited for the opportunities to retail our titles there as well. 'We've received a lot of positive press and response from fans who are equally upset to see Kindred Spirits and other titles threatened this way, but this certainly makes it hard to trust that Steam will hold to the results of its reviews and serve as a reliable storefront for our titles,' Pickett says.

Valve's aborted takedown blitz appears to have alienated a considerable section of the community, with MangaGamer revealing it will also be revising its 'future strategies for retailing on Steam', in the wake of the upcoming re-review of Kindred Spirits.

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