US EditionBanned Steam Game VILE: Exhumed Is Back as a Free Shareware Title
TORONTO, AUG 5 – Cara Cadaver and DreadXP released VILE: Exhumed free under a Creative Commons license, donating 50% of profits to a Toronto domestic violence charity after Steam banned it for alleged sexual content.
- After being removed from storefronts, Cara Cadaver and DreadXP released Vile: Exhumed as a free shareware game on VileIsBanned.com under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
- Amid pressure from payment processors like Mastercard, PayPal and Stripe, Steam and Itch.io recently adopted vague adult-content policies, removing the game for alleged 'sexual content with depictions of real people,' according to Valve.
- Cara Cadaver and DreadXP released Vile: Exhumed as shareware with donation links, pledging 50% of profits to Red Door Family Shelter.
- The International Game Developers Association condemned the broad delisting, stating it disproportionately impacts underrepresented and queer creators, while GOG.com launched an NSFW giveaway to raise awareness.
- Until guidelines change, donation-only distribution of Vile: Exhumed may be the only way to keep transgressive games from disappearing.
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Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free
DreadXPIn July, PC storefronts Steam and Itch.io both pulled hundreds of games from sale, citing pressure from payment processors like Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe. The games affected allegedly violate a vague set of standards set forth by those companies, mostly targeting games with any sort of sexual content. Now, the developer of one horror game is pushing back and taking the chance to support a good cause at the same time.Vile: Exhumed is …
A game of terror that has been banned by Steam plant facing the wave of prohibitions, and is now offered free of charge for charitable purposes.
After being "wrongly banned" from Steam over sexual content rules, horror game Vile: Exhumed launches for free
Update: A Valve spokesperson responded that "Steam has never allowed games with sexual depictions/images of real people". They pointed to item two in the rules and guidelines regarding what should be published on the platform outlined in its onboarding document as the reason Vile: Exhumed was taken down, specifying that this isn't a "new rule". Original story continues below: Horror game Vile: Exhumed, which sees you delving into a 90s computer …
DreadXP and developer Cara Cadaver have announced that VILE: Exhumed will be launched as free shareware, after the game was affected by the massive ban on Steam games because the payment media refused to process the purchase of certain games with visual or violent content. VILE: Exhumed was banned by "sexual content with representations of real people", even though the game does not contain any of this. Instead, the game deals with the developer…
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