Are all games on steam safe?

[Splat ♥]

Are there any preventions to stop somebody uploading straight malware to take over steam accounts and wrote positive reviews ?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Valve vets all games, especially sex games. They REALLY test those well for some reason, but ALL games are vetted and put through a series of tests and such prior to release.

[Splat ♥]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Valve vets all games, especially sex games. They REALLY test those well for some reason, but ALL games are vetted and put through a series of tests and such prior to release.

what about early access titles?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Splat (Xbox Controller) ♥:

Originally posted by Wynters:

Valve vets all games, especially sex games. They REALLY test those well for some reason, but ALL games are vetted and put through a series of tests and such prior to release.

what about early access titles?

They're safe as well. They're games, they get vetted and the label has no influence on that.

[Cathulhu]

There is no exception. All games and game updates are checked for malware.
Any publisher even attempting to do something this ridiculous would be banned from Steam, forever.

There are already several publishers who got banned from Steam for review manipulation without malware.

[AVeryRomanlanHolder]

All games including NSFW ones I'm pretty sure that they don't have malware

[nullable]

Originally posted by Splat (Xbox Controller) ♥:

Are there any preventions to stop somebody uploading straight malware to take over steam accounts and wrote positive reviews ?

So do you think in twenty years, on the wild west that is the PC platform, no one has thought to upload malware in a game, and Valve hasn't thought to check for it? I mean that's a pretty big stretch of the imagination.

Not to mention lots of users would notice the scenario you wrote and would report the game/developer, and that sort of malicious behavior from a developer would be identified in about ten minutes anyway. And the consequences would be not worth it for the perpetrator.

Here's the thing, when a crackpot what-if scenario takes you about ten seconds to cook up, someone has already thought of it in five seconds twenty years ago.