Overview
- The game Plantation Simulator was published on Steam by developer FzzyBzzy on May 12, 2026 and remained listed after public attention grew.
- The game's mature-content blurb and store media explicitly described and showed a whipping mechanic targeting Black characters as a core gameplay element.
- A 41‑second gameplay clip and screenshots circulated on social media and were verified by fact-checkers, prompting widespread outrage and calls for removal.
- The developer later issued updates that changed character skin tones, altered the whipping animation to hearts, and rewrote the content blurb in what observers called trolling.
- Journalists, former Valve staff and civil‑society research have criticized Valve for not publicly removing the title and said the case highlights persistent gaps in Steam’s moderation of hateful or violent content.