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Valve Allows Uncensored, Anime-Style Porn Game on Steam

The adult title arrives as Valve has decided to no longer censor controversial games on Steam. Previously, adult games had to offer workarounds for access to pornographic scenes.

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Valve has apparently approved its first uncensored adult game on the Steam store.

On Friday, Dharker Studios is slated to start selling an uncensored version of its game Negilgee: Love Stories, which features nudity and sex scenes.

The adult title arrives as Valve has decided to no longer censor games that include controversial content. Instead, the company seeks to give consumers more control over which games they wish to see and buy on the digital store.

"Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this. If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy," Valve executive Erik Johnson wrote in June.

Adult games have actually been available on Steam for years, but any explicit pornographic content in the game generally had to be removed. To access the sex scenes, you'd usually have to download a separate patch from the developer's own web page.

This was true for Negilgee, which launched as a censored product on Steam in 2016. However, Dharker Studios tweeted on Monday that Valve had given it the green light to do away with the patches and start selling a "100 percent uncensored" version of the game.

Steam Store Adult Game

An indie developer called Kagura Games, meanwhile, said "some developers have already put up their uncensored games up for review, so we'll be following that closely, and consult with Steam to decide what the best course of action is for releasing our future titles on Steam."

So far, Valve hasn't publicly commented on the upcoming Negilgee release, so it isn't clear if other uncensored adult games will soon be allowed on Steam. In the past, the company took a stricter stance on limiting pornographic content. For instance, back in May, the company briefly threatened to remove anime-style adult games from the store. Prior to that, Valve began barring developers from publicly sharing links to download the uncensored patches to their adult games over Steam.

But now Valve is opening the door to all kinds of gaming content, for better or worse. To prevent controversial games from creeping into your Steam store recommendations, the company has been adding new tools to help buyers better curate what they'd like to see on the platform.

Steam Mature Content Filter

By default, games with "adult only sexual content" will not appear. To see them, you'll have to directly search for the title; Steam will then serve up a warning and explain the sexual content the game contains.

You can also control what you see on the Steam store by going into your Steam account's preferences. Under the Mature Content section, toggle what games you'd like to view.

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I've been a journalist for over 15 years. I got my start as a schools and cities reporter in Kansas City and joined PCMag in 2017, where I cover satellite internet services, cybersecurity, PC hardware, and more. I'm currently based in San Francisco, but previously spent over five years in China, covering the country's technology sector.

Since 2020, I've covered the launch and explosive growth of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, writing 600+ stories on availability and feature launches, but also the regulatory battles over the expansion of satellite constellations, fights with rival providers like AST SpaceMobile and Amazon, and the effort to expand into satellite-based mobile service. I've combed through FCC filings for the latest news and driven to remote corners of California to test Starlink's cellular service.

I also cover cyber threats, from ransomware gangs to the emergence of AI-based malware. In 2024 and 2025, the FTC forced Avast to pay consumers $16.5 million for secretly harvesting and selling their personal information to third-party clients, as revealed in my joint investigation with Motherboard.

I also cover the PC graphics card market. Pandemic-era shortages led me to camp out in front of a Best Buy to get an RTX 3000. I'm now following how the AI-driven memory shortage is impacting the entire consumer electronics market. I'm always eager to learn more, so please jump in the comments with feedback and send me tips.

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