On October 28, indie survival horror Red Pine Lake claimed that Steam had rejected its application to launch a store page, citing the key art featuring a woman in a one-piece swimsuit as the reason. However, in a rare victory against rising censorship on the platform, the decision was reportedly overturned just a week later.
Earlier this month, on November 2, developer Sakura Studios shared a supposed chat log with the Steam Team, in which a storefront representative allegedly said that "Focusing the topic of the image on a woman's behind is indeed sexual in nature, regardless of what she's wearing", and that it would need to be updated.
This presented a major problem; the team was asked to apply the relevant categories to their game, so it ticked the 'General Mature Content', 'Frequent Violence or Gore', and 'Some Nudity or Sexual Content' boxes, but Steam would not approve a game with sexual content on the store page itself, and it allegedly considered a woman's behind - regardless of clothing - as sexual in nature. The tags didn't matter.
As Sakura Studios pointed out, there are plenty of adult games with sexual content on the storefront. In response to...
