Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. Steam has always allowed some types of sexual content. Valve was recently threatening to remove games that it considered pornographic.
Those choices should be yours to makeβ¦. Taking this approach allows us to focus less on trying to police what should be on Steam, and more on building those tools to give people control over what kinds of content they see.
In other words, Steam now allows games with adult-only sexual content that would previously be considered pornography. You will still see these games if you follow a link directly to their product pages from another website, however, no matter what your Steam preferences are.
Your change takes effect immediately. These games will now appear in your searches and recommendations. The Store Preferences page also lets you customize your other Steam store preferences.
For example, you could hide games with nudity, gore, or other mature content. Steam still allows you to enable parental controls , too. You can block access to the store entirely or even only allow access to specific games in your library with Family View. Comments 0. The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere. Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, comics, trivia, reviews, and more.
