On Tuesday, the developer of Rape Day said in an update to Steam that the game was under review at Valve. Customers could wishlist the game, which was expected to arrive on Steam in April. Rape Day was never available for sale on Steam. We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary-we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. Given our previous communication around Who Gets To Be On The Steam Store?, we think this decision warrants further explanation. Today we’ve decided not to distribute this game on Steam. Over the past week you may have heard about a game called ‘Rape Day’ coming soon to Steam. In a statement published today on Steam, Valve’s Erik Johnson explained that the company has declined to carry Rape Day on its store, despite lax content policies that would seem to permit such content on the platform. The game has since been removed from Steam. Valve says it will not allow Rape Day, a visual novel that would have let players “verbally harass, kill people, and rape women” in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, on Steam.

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