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Steam Labels Teen‑Rated Indie Game as Pornography and Hides Its Store Page

The platform’s adult classification has left the developer seeking answers and cut the game off from users in countries with age‑verification rules.

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.