What's the deal with content warnings?

[Chronolord]

So I'm going through that daily thing where Steam randomly selects a dozen games for you to have a look at. And a few of the titles came up with content warnings saying that this game contains content that may not be appropriate for for viewing etcetera etcetera. The thing is, none of the games content on their respective pages had had content which is objectionable at any level. Conversely, I have had visual novels with the 'nudity' tag pop up with no content warning.

So did I fall in to Opposite World here?

[Poobah Gorg]

The tag has nothing to do with that warning screen. That is based on the game's age rating that Steam puts on it, not the tags that users/devs have applied to a game.

Odds are it's about blood and gore as far as the titles without that tag go.

Generally titles having the nudity tag simply means cleavage, underboob or even just a bikini top or underwear.

Easiest way to think about the often-misleading "nudity" tag is: Would the two Mormon "elders" who rode up to your house last week on their bikes be upset if their sister was wearing it? If so, some user apparently tagged it with "nudity." Games with actual nudity on Steam are relatively few and far between, but there are some. More often than not, they're AAA games that Steam can't avoid not selling (read: Witcher games). Some VNs contain actual nudity (but nothing more than suggested sex), those are the ones where the screen you mention shows up.

[Maaahhh]

for some reason i got a screen on battletoads, i checked the xbox website and the game is rated everyone 10+ and minecraft has the same age rating, it honestly shouldn't show that because i have games rated teen and those games arent getting an age warning

[Rex]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.