Overview
- Valve’s moderation team flagged Future? No Thanks! as containing explicit sexual content in July, assigning it an adult/pornography label that the developer disputes.
- Molleindustria removed a mild sex scene and later said it deleted the entire ‘sex quest’ before resubmitting the build, but Steam kept the adult classification.
- As of August 27–28, the game’s Steam page is mostly hidden to users and is completely unavailable in Germany because the adult label triggers national age‑verification laws.
- Developer Paolo Pedercini publicly appealed for help from anyone with Valve contacts while showing the game at Gamescom, calling the process humiliating and damaging to visibility.
- Reporters note an apparent inconsistency: major titles with explicit scenes remain viewable on Steam, which highlights the platform’s opaque moderation and the outsized commercial harm such labels can inflict on small developers.