My time in *whatnow*, Steam?

[Aotrs Commander]

Found as I scrolled down in my store

"SEXUAL CONTENT GAMES Due to your recent playtime in other Sexual Content games"

[Some Clearly Hentai Games]

*spittake*

...

*Looks at the 12 games currently installed on Steam since the Great Harddrive Crash of 2021.*

AI War 2
BATTLETECH
Dorfromantik
Evil Genius 2
Forgotten City
Greedfall
Per Aspera
Rimworld
The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluze
Total Warhammer 2
Wildermyth
Wasteland 3

Uhhh...

Wut.

I'm sorry Steam, come again?



I was so utterly bewilded by this, I went down the entire list and looked at the user tags trying to work otu what even the hell.

Turns out Greedfall and Wasteland 3 have "sexual content" tags. For what, I'm not quite sure, considering, well, the love seen in the former was entirely fully-clothing kissing and fade-to-black. I... find something that wouldn't have been terribly out of place in *maybe* 1960s Star Trek difficult to grasp as "sexual content." Now, granted, I played Wasteland 3 six months ago, but I likewise don't recall and "sexual content" specifically.

Now maybe I'm being obtuse, in that perhaps one of the monsters in Greedfall maybe had uncovered boobs because it was a mutated female human at one point, though I would personally find it difficult to describe that as "sexual content;" nor would, perhaps, some horribly mutiliated corpses naked corpses or something in the background of Wasteland 3 that I'm not remembering.

Or is it just "you can utilise the imaginary brothel in likewise a fade to black (I didn't, actually, in either game see if that was the case), which would presumably also mean Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 contains "sexual content."

Because at this point, I have to kind of call into question the usefulness of that tag, if it covers everything from "it is implied characters have sex" (Does Stardew Valley count, since, like children, the actual intended feature of sex appear?) to full-on porn might be a tad broad. Like, the only way you could make it broader is by the extension to any game in which biological sex is present (and thus Any Game With A Human Character In It).

I'm more slightly baffled and mildly amused (and currently bored) than anything but... One cannot help but feel that The Algorhym may just be needing a SLIGHT adjustment, just sayin'.

[captainwiseass]

The Algorithm will take into account all games you've purchased and played, not just the ones currently installed.

That said, the Algorithm is, and always has been, a moron. This is true regardless of platform.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Report wrongly applied tags.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

The tag basically goes to anything above nudity which alone is its own tag as some games have showering or like some where you change outfits and stuff but anything that has confirmed sexual content would fall under it; and sometimes interestingly games with a Romance path also do; in which case your question on as small as it is, its more so the relationship aspect as a whole which leads to it.

One way they did change it is by adding the Hentai tag and the Sexual Content tag so if you got the sexual one that is almost just the tag system going by the tags over all I imagine

[Aotrs Commander]

Originally posted by captainwiseass:

The Algorithm will take into account all games you've purchased and played, not just the ones currently installed.

That said, the Algorithm is, and always has been, a moron. This is true regardless of platform.

I mean, it said "recently played," so I would sort of assume it means recently, which would be what I have installed (on the new HDD). (Though for the record, I genuinely don't have any hentai-ish games anyway - the closest I could fairly reasonably level at for that sort of thing is Witcher 3.)

But yeah, it's dumb.

Originally posted by Big Bridge.mp4:

Report wrongly applied tags.

See, I'm not sure what the rationale for the tags IS, though, since there are (unreasonable my own metric) arguments that one could make in a sufficiently broad fashion that might constitute "sexual content" (the mere existence of a brothel, whether the player can use it or not, for instance), so I'm not sure it's 100% wrong... Just that a one-size designation for that is kind of ridiculous, like a "contains violence" tag applicable from everything from brutal horror gore to, like, Monkey Island.

(And why games in which Sex Does Happen - implied or otherwise (Rimworld, Stardew Valley, Wildermyth - you can literally produce children in the latter two) appreciably DON'T have a sexual content warning.)

I don't seriously expect anything to happen, but I was sufficiently bored to be mildly amused and somewhat baffled as to what it was looking at.

[Shillelagh]

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