The adult patch for Bokuten is 1.2GB in size, as it contains the cut content said content is not, as Lombardi claims, distributed as part of the Steam package of Bokuten. Pickett pointed out that Lombardi’s claim was also untrue.

Valve’s VP of Marketing, Doug Lombardi, told The Daily Dot that “in initial content review, missed content hidden in the game’s depot that features adult content with underage characters” and that while the supposedly offending content was “not accessible in the game itself without an externally acquired patch, distributing that content depot through Steam, therefore the game would not have passed content review.” Lombardi claimed that Steam had “improved content review process to avoid this in the future.” This claim is untrue, since the game had not been updated since December 19, 2019. Speaking with The Daily Dot, MangaGamer’s PR Director John Pickett noted that the company had received a communication from the Steam representative responsible for the ban, claiming that MangaGamer had added sexual content to the game that would not have passed Steam’s review process. It’s just gone, eight months after it was originally released and, according to programmer The_Doddler, after the team had already spent “months getting the game sanitised for Steam, cutting all nudity” and “rewriting/skipping anything explicit” in order to meet the conditions imposed on them by Valve’s “harsh review”. The team has, at the time of writing, received no feedback from Steam as to why it was removed, nor did they receive any warning that it was violating any content policies or any requests to adjust content to make it suitable for distribution on the platform. So it’s time we looked at what we, as a community, can perhaps do a bit differently.Īs I type this, MangaGamer has just had its localisation of OVERDRIVE’s visual novel Bokuten – Why I Became an Angel removed from Steam. One of those is the localised Japanese visual novel sector, which frequently finds itself the victim of Valve’s seemingly amorphous content policies. And while there are perfectly valid reasons to favour Steam - its social features are pretty good, its frequent sales make gaming very affordable and it’s where you’ll find the largest communities for many online games - there are certain parts of the industry that are being treated extremely poorly by the platform. To put it another way, in much the same way that Grandma thinks that Facebook is “the Internet”, there are many people out there who don’t look beyond Steam as a place to buy new games.

For many gamers, “PC gaming” and “Steam” are pretty much synonymous. Steam is the largest, most well-established PC gaming platform out there. This article remains relevant, however, because Steam’s treatment of MangaGamer in this incident was totally unacceptable. Steam has reinstated Bokuten after investigation confirmed the issue with the missed (and inaccessible) CGs mentioned below.

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