Adult only

[Kurikuo]

Why do yall keep marking your recent games as adult only, if they are clearly ecchi fanservice at best. False advertising.

[Yogurt]

probably legal reasons idk

[STHX]

I feel like if the choices are:
- marking the game as Adult Only but be able to release it on Steam
- not marking the game as Adult Only but the game gets banned from Steam

Then I can understand why developers pick the first option

[Kurikuo]

Im pretty sure it wouldnt get banned, as it has no nudity whatsoever, I checked. They even release those games on the Switch. Senran Kagura games, and Gal Gun have more nudity and innuendos, and arent marked as adult. Adult only is for porn games, so if I see it in that section, I expect it to have porn in it

The recent Zombie Maid game is the same. It has some clothes tearing in it, thats it. Best you see is panties. And like, every JRPG in existence lets you see panties, or cleavage, or has some kind of Bikini DLC

Hope that explains it

[VertVentus]

Chaos Head (before getting appealed), Duel Princess, and Dungeon Travelers 2 all got banned for varying degrees of ecchi.
Sure Massage Freaks managed to get by unscathed on Steam, but that was after renaming it to beat refle and denying the Switch version.
You can't take chances with Steam's approval lottery, which is why Dungeon Travelers: To Heart 2 got a similar Adult Only label. Underage looking characters and/or some groping mini-game/lewd CGs don't mix well.

[Kurikuo]

Chaos Head actually got banned for its gore connected with ecchi. Those two things together are a huge nono on Steam. Evenicle 2 was banned for that as well, and this Samurai mecha Visual Novel, I dont remember the name.
But I guess I can see where ur coming from. These characters here dont look the underage part to me tho

[TysonL]

i agree! come back to making adult games! we all know the nintendo only sales are lacking. you made good money when was devoted to PC! and including adult patches for us.

[luchengchao]

drinking needs at least 2X year-old

[TysonL]

Originally posted by luchengchao:

drinking needs at least 2X year-old

exactly drinking is not for below 18+ and some countries it's 21+

[Soushi [SSRB]]

Originally posted by Kurikuo:

Why do yall keep marking your recent games as adult only, if they are clearly ecchi at best. False advertising.

It's Steam. They won't allow this game to be published without the AO tag. Steam really got worse for hentai and ecchi games in recent years, not sure if it's just the store moderation team doing what it wants or if they actually got pressured by payment processors like Visa, in any case it is way, WAY, harder to get your game approved nowadays, compared to the time when Gabe just opened the floodgates.

[TysonL]

Originally posted by Soushi SSRB:

Originally posted by Kurikuo:

Why do yall keep marking your recent games as adult only, if they are clearly ecchi at best. False advertising.

It's Steam. They won't allow this game to be published without the AO tag. Steam really got worse for hentai and ecchi games in recent years, not sure if it's just the store moderation team doing what it wants or if they actually got pressured by payment processors like Visa, in any case it is way, WAY, harder to get your game approved nowadays, compared to the time when Gabe just opened the floodgates.

it's the steam team doing what they want. good adult games from japan keep getting denied but they are release on GOG! or mangagamer and jlist.

[leekrs1]

If it was chinese it would not have been marked adult only That is something I have noticed (chinese made ecchi and hentai games are approved on steam uncensored, no questions asked). And if THIS was given an AO rating on steam why the hell does Baldur's Gate 3 get away with an M rating instead.

[Accelerator]

COPE AND MALD GOONER

[Porky Minch]

How can you tell if a game is marked as Adult Only? The closest I can find are the tags (which are set by users) and the very rare age verification before being allowed to view some games (but again it's rare for me to encounter that)

[IrisHeart]

This game is PEGI rating 16. Not adults only.
Steam tags are not any kind of rating for game and even if they would be, nowhere does it say "adults only". Sexual content tag is not the same as adults only and "all characters are over 21 years old" doesn't mean anything.

There's no false adverticement atleast in Steam store. But there is false accusation.

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

Originally posted by IrisHeart:

This game is PEGI rating 16. Not adults only.
Steam tags are not any kind of rating for game and even if they would be, nowhere does it say "adults only". Sexual content tag is not the same as adults only and "all characters are over 21 years old" doesn't mean anything.

There's no false adverticement atleast in Steam store. But there is false accusation.

"som enudity or sexual content", "frequent nudity or sexual content", "general mature content" and its Adult only (18+) maked by steam or the dev himself (steamdb says adult only)

and pegi or usk rating listed are region specific, for example cause they got no USK rating and its marked as adult only, its blocked for me to buy it myself/view storepage yet games with full explicit sexual content are available for me to buy as they got trough the process to get the 18+ rating from the USK here

same with PEGI, for example

there are games with pegi 18, while they are USK 16 in germany when its just some ecchi stuff while very gore intense games are usually pegi 16 but usk 18 for example pegi has rating for 3,7,12,16,18 while usk has 0, 6, 12, 16, 18 which have nothing to do with the initial rating by steam or the devs themselves

because u see A LOT of games without any pegi or usk rating but the devs put them themselves... because if they say its 12 but steam then says wait this has ecchi and say its at least 16+, the game gets revoked and possibly wont get approved anymore, so even ecchi games are often tagged as adult only despite having no explicit content because there are only 2 countries that block these games by default.... and that china and germany

so the games rating on steam, by the devs, by pegi and usk are more or less unrelated to each other, while a too low rating by the devs can cause issues with steam~