so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with ‘nsfw’, ‘adult’, or ‘erotic’ so they don’t show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning
So itch.io/games/nsfw still shows a few thousand titles, but using traditional adult tags to search within there shows ‘no titles’. (src)
And @itch.io is now denying payouts to the creators affected by the takedowns with no notice
“Accounts that are in violation of our terms are not elligible for payouts” (src)
There’s quite a lot of examples of these in various threads now.
It seems to get a bit weird though with some games still appearing on steam.
Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia’s autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing) (src)
itch.io has been pretty open and transparent for their entire existence afaik and dropping all this without warning feels pretty bad
I checked on steam here in Europe, I did not see any adult content disappear. But to be fair, payment processors don’t get to discriminate here
The games removed from Steam were removed globally. They didn’t remove all adult content games (yet?) though, just ones related to certain topics like incest.
When that happened i said “now its only incest, next it will be all nsfw stuff” and here we are. Didnt take very long at all.
I’ll have to find some specific examples then
You can see some examples on SteamDB’s Bluesky.
Oh nice, thank you! And yep, those do appear to be missing
This article has a screenshot listing some removed titles (and I think also a link to the original source): https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valve-gets-pressured-by-payment-processors-with-a-new-rule-for-game-devs-and-various-adult-games-removed/