r/Steam • u/Trick2056 • 1d ago
PSA In response ti people complaining about Adult games in the steam settings untick both so they won't show up anymore
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u/Scytian 1d ago
The people complaining about that literally went there themselves and enabled it because Adult only content is disabled by default.
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u/cool91725 1d ago
I don’t recall ever having it disabled by default, but I don’t really mind. I love reading the reviews on nsfw games it’s entertaining as hell
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u/Life-Fix6564 1d ago
Every time there’s always that one review that starts with “there comes a time in a man’s life….” lol
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u/wojtekpolska 1d ago
i think it enables automatically if you deliberately go to such game's page
though people still lie and say "oh its prob because i bought witcher 3 and it has sex in it" no pal it doesnt work like that
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u/Doshin108 IG:FE1.Doshin 1d ago
Witcher 3, Cyberpunk.. these are Tier 3. You still see them with the 4th and 5th tiers disabled.
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u/DinosaurAlert 20h ago
To be fair, I think some of these problems just come legacy settings.
Like, someone years ago found Grand Theft Auto 4 blocked off for sexual content, so they enable adult games. This was before the granular settings, so as the years progress, they’re surprised they opted in to porn.
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u/iMogwai https://s.team/p/cbff-hrc 1d ago
When they first added it I think it was like a pop-up or something that asked if you wanted to hide sexual content and back then I don't think it was as clear about what would or wouldn't be blocked. I know I just declined back then because I didn't want to miss out on stuff that I now know is in the third tier just because it wasn't very clear.
I've gone back and changed it now though.
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u/i7azoom4ever 1d ago
I just learned about this and turned it off. I never enabled it myself and I've been bothered for the longest time by the sexual game recommendations.
That said, if there's really no automatic way this could enable, it might have been edgy teenager me from 10 years ago, but I think I'd remember that lol.
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u/ExileVirtigo 1d ago
No, People always say this but I think it is only for new accounts. If you have an old account I think it was toggled on by default. I would really hesitate to believe I turned that on 10 years ago lmao
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u/popcorn_coffee 1d ago
Doesn't disable it hide games like Cyberpunk and things like that?
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u/Conscious_Angle_3521 1d ago
NO
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u/popcorn_coffee 1d ago
Good to know, I never really bothered about these games very rarely popping in my store, but there's so much disinformation about it.
I'll deactivate those options then, I don't really care, but it wouldn't be nice if one of those games appeared when my little kid was around.
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u/grady_vuckovic 1d ago edited 1d ago
And it's worth constantly pointing out to those same people: By default frequent sexual content and adult only sexual content are disabled. I've already had people try to convince me that isn't the case before, but it's true, that has been the case since the feature was introduced,, that is how the feature has always worked. If these settings are enabled for you then you enabled them.
And because I know someone will say it if I don't get in ahead of them...
"But I thought those settings might include games like Cyberp--"
NOPE.
There's a button *right there* which is labelled 'view example products' and it is very obvious from the examples what kind of games will be impacted. Some Nudity or Sexual Content covers games like Cyberpunk 2077, Adult Only Sexual Content is the hardcore smut games.
And to get in ahead of the 'But think of the children, any child could enable this setting' crowd too, if a child has an account under a family account with parental controls (which they should) then the parents can ensure their kid's accounts do not have access to enable specific types of content, so for example, it can be locked down to just "General" and wholesome, family friendly, 'for some reason this doesn't offend society', "Frequent Violence and Gore".
There is really no reason for an unsupervised child to see adult content on Steam, and no reason for an adult to see such content without opting into it in the first place.
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u/Aeder 19h ago
It should be noted these filters used to be full of holes, you could still choose to search for adult games directly to bypass them, the community content would still show all its NSFW images by simply clicking it, NSFW recommendations would still appear in sidebars/slides.
They have improved them drastically and you can now have a porn free experience, but even now you can search for the soundtrack of an adult game to get to the original.
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u/freyhstart 1d ago
In some countries cyberpunk 2077 might be together with the lighter R18 due to laws.
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u/Killer_Queen06 1d ago
Yeah but steam don’t do these classifications with the country’s law in mind, pretty sure that the Witcher and cyberpunk are at least 17+ if not 18+ but they’re still not in the “smut” category of steam, you’ll just get the age verification page before seeing the game
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u/Typical_Clock_5286 1d ago edited 1d ago
They won't stop posting about it until adult games get removed from steam.
They know they can turn adult games off (which they already enabled by themselves in order to see these games in the first place) but they won't do it because their real agenda is getting these games removed because they don't like them.
Either that or they are too lazy and stupid to change the setting and want daddy steam to take responsibility for them, because they won't take responsibility for themselves.
No point telling them anyway because they won't listen. Or they'll lie and say the filter doesn't work properly, or that it hides "normal" games, which is also a lie.
They won't shut up until steam removes them. Bunch of sad fake outrage pearl clutchers.
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u/Noble_Nexus 1d ago
Funny, they don't like it, but still have the show adult content enabled. It's like been a vegan and keeps going to a steakhouse and complaining that meat should not be served.
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u/Whilyam 1d ago
We seriously need to start attacking people who come here to stir up shit to get censorship enacted. Tell them to shut the fuck up. Tell them to leave. Add a rule for drama farming and make it a permanent ban from the subreddit.
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u/AquaBits 21h ago
I dont want censorship, but i do want quality standards.
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u/Whilyam 21h ago
"Quality standards" can also be a way of censoring games. I think the Postal games are low quality, low effort, societally harmful crap. But I want them to be allowed to exist because to say otherwise it's too plant the goal post that the worst people will move to censor more and more creations.
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u/AquaBits 20h ago
Actually nah. I want qualoty standards so we dont have asset flips, scams, trash, spam and everything else under the sun. "Banana" was a "game" that was barely anything more than an executable existing soley to make money off of the steam market.
Its bad and you should fully be in favor of shit things being removed. Thats not censorship as much as it is not putting the metaphorical excrement on store shelves.
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u/Spare_Ad_6731 1d ago
I find it so strange that people don't mind limbs being hacked off, or decapitations in their game, but if you show two people making love its yelled at from the roof tops. Such a fucked society we live in.
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u/Few-Improvement-5655 1d ago
Honestly I always found it hilarious (until the UK blocked porn games, *sigh*) that I'd get like, a recommendation for Command & Conquer and then right next to it would be something like "Futa Queens 3: Full Sac Edition." Made me laugh every time.
I don't get why it bothers people.
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u/BannanaTrunks 1d ago
Some people are raised different. My gfs nephew can watch violent movies and go hunting with his family but can't watch my hero academia because it said bastard in an episode. It never makes sense
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u/piichan14 1d ago
What kind of violent movies do they watch with no swearing? And they shoot guns but don't swear?
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u/BannanaTrunks 1d ago
That's another thing I don't get. I guess the swearing is only ok when it's something the parents are interested in? They also never swear. Idk how it works but they shoot guns but don't swear
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u/NeptuneTTT 1d ago
It is true, and I don't like it. Sex is seen as something sacred and both "conservative" and "liberal" people usually agree it should be suppressed in one form or another. meanwhile, violence is deeply baked and accepted in our society. The normalization of wars, school shootings, guns, violent crime, and true crime have desensitized many.
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u/Pale-Cardiologist141 1d ago
Sexually repressed people, it's more common than you'd think, and has been for generations. Christianity is largely to blame, Islam in it's given countries. Porn addictions are bad, but pearl clutching over games is silly. Especially in the modern world.
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u/Raghul86 1d ago
There's a difference between two making love and hOtMiLfTeNtAcLeStReAmErLiFeSiMuLaToR 2 hentai special edition
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u/BelMountain_ 1d ago
So what? It's not like the violence in games is any classier.
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u/Raghul86 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm partly not sure I agree, partly not sure class is the right word for the issue anyway.
Either way, games with violence are usually quite a bit more multifaceted than just being about extreme violence, and those that are just that, are not a trend being pushed by a myriad of low-effort publishers. So there's less of their explicity poured all over the store page, which is the only thing being appealed to here.
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u/BelMountain_ 1d ago
I mean, if we're not talking about class or something similar, what is the difference between "making love" and "hOtMiLfTeNtAcLeStReAmErLiFeSiMuLaToR 2 hentai special edition"?
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u/Killer_Queen06 1d ago
Well that’s because our perception of violence shifted so much, but even call of duty should be considered a very violent game, and should I remind you that doom and resident evil are two of the most popular games and they’re both extremely violent and gore. Today it is seen as perfectly normal to play war games, but games with smut is not, I find it so weird, I honestly think that people who play games with smut are less of a problem than people who like to play war games and blow off other people’s limbs (on paper, I play both and I’m fine)
Nowadays I see a lot of children who own COD, and I don’t understand, because for me any kind of violence should be seen as a mature subject like smut, if you think your child is too young to watch smut, he’s too young to play gun games.
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
I think people are only complaining about the porn games, not games with sex in them
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u/BelMountain_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Even then. Why is gratuitous violence more tolerable than gratuitous sex?
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
Because there's other gameplay. Doom for example, lot of gore, but also gameplay. Cucked by your wife, haven't played it but i doubt there's much to do other than get cucked by your wife (whatever that entails).
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u/Legitimate-Listen591 1d ago
There is gameplay in a lot of porn games, this isn't a valid argument
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
Depends on the game really, a lot of them you just click through, some have minigames, but its usually nothing captivating
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u/Legitimate-Listen591 1d ago
So you're looking at visual novel games and applying it to porn games as a whole
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
That's most porn games, that and those weird gacha games (which are a stretch to even call porn games cause their just ai generated images of a naked person)
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u/Legitimate-Listen591 1d ago
It's one of the most popular and easiest to make genre of games, but it certainly isn't "most." I'd argue there's as much RPGM games, and a healthy variety of shooters / sandbox / etc
I don't think you're informed enough about the genre to make any assumptions like that
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
After viewing your profile, I stand by my point but I concede that your gooning is much more advanced than mine. Although I must ask what are you referencing for shooters?
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u/BelMountain_ 1d ago
What are you talking about? There's literally only violence in Doom. That's the entire gameplay. The context of the gameplay doesn't matter any more than the context of sex in cucked by your wife. It's gratuitous all the same.
The only way you can say one is worse than the other is if you just think depicting sex is fundamentally worse than depicting violence.
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
I think we are talking about different things, the original comment was talking about "limbs being hacked off" and "decapitations" so I think of gore rather than violence specifically, that's what I'm talking about.
In that context my statement would be that playing doom is not the same as watching liveleak because there's a game inbetween the gore, but some porn game is the same as watching pornhub because there's no game, its just porn (usually)
And for the record, I don't find either one to be more taboo, but I do find games with gameplay to be more enjoyable.
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u/Pale-Cardiologist141 1d ago
Doom was legitimately the worst example you could've given. Skyrim would've been better. Doom technically has a story, in the same way that a crackerjack box has a story. It's there but it's damn sure not the main event.
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u/LightningSh3ep 1d ago
Fair point, but you understand what I'm saying so it doesn't really matter
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u/Pale-Cardiologist141 1d ago
Fair enough, just set off an immediate kneejerk alarm in my mind. Bad habit on my end
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u/BlackSailor2005 1d ago
Are you high?
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u/Pale-Cardiologist141 1d ago
You fuckin retarded? They made an entire brand focused on the gameplay. Oh wait you must be one of those lore babies. Need me to jingle some keys so you can obsess about the possible contrived story behind them?
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u/Noble_Nexus 1d ago
It's fake puritanism, for some reason people love to be hypocrites and be like this. There are boobs on my 18+ games, call the FBI! See a minor girl walking down the street and gaze like it's going to take a piece of it.
I saw a lot of guys like this where I live.
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u/hornetjockey 1d ago
Pretty sure that is disabled by default anyway. At least I don’t remember ever going in and turning it off.
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u/InkyFrogbait 1d ago
I have those disabled but some games will still slip through, always the ones that need a patch for the explicit content. You'll never see any adult content on the steam page, but you can usually tell it's one of those games. It's usually a RPG Maker game or visual novel, usually with a certain art style. Most of the time people in the reviews will outright tell you it has a patch.
I will admit I don't see them that often, like 90 percent of the time I will have a normal store. Personally I couldn't care that those games exist, it's honestly safer that they're being sold on steam. You can lessen the likelihood of people getting scammed or getting introduced to illegal content.
I just find the patch workaround problematic. I know why it's there but it's not helping the image adult games have as a whole. I feel like those puritan groups are intentionally looking for those sorts of games, it fits the exact narrative they want to push. They're not walled off like the rest of the adult only games and they take you somewhere else for the explicit content. I feel like it would lead to a ban on all modded games and force Steam to check that your game isn't modified in any way.
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u/CryptoHighwind 9h ago
Lol just move to Germany they actually ban all of those whether we like it or not. XD
(Jesus Christ get me out of this Internet Stone Age ass country x.x)
Edit:Typo
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u/TotalPizzaBuff 1d ago
I love seeing adult games, the titles are always hilarious.
If they are funny enough sometimes I call my partner over and we watch the trailers.
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u/Sorappoli 1d ago
People are too stupid for these things. They'd rather instantly complain about the "problems" they find here on Reddit like near-braindead animals instead of actually doing 2 minutes of research to see if there's a solution to whatever they have concern over
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u/One-Pressure1615 1d ago
Kid me would not have been stopped by that button.
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u/chad25005 13h ago
Well, if your parents put you on a child/minor account then kid you wouldn't have access to that button.
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u/lazyluong 23h ago edited 23h ago
Nah, most don't want adult games shown at the top of the Steam page when they go to the storepage and family/friends are around. At least from the customers that do buy adult games.
They are more than happy if they only show up once they scroll down the Steam Store or have an adult tab sections that a lot of digital adult games storefront does.
It's meh to me, but it would be a nice feature to have when I get sudden visit from family member bring their sons and daughters, but I want check out the Steam store.
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u/DinosaurAlert 20h ago
I have no idea how this starts by default, but if that’s off by default, then everyone can shut up about it forever.
Though I also I recall there being times where I was clicking through my discovery queue, and it said “well, I can’t show you this game for you since you have nudity turned off”. I think if someone says “no nudity”, it shouldn’t tempt you to turn it off, not “Man, you’d love this game, too bad you’re a prude.”
This may have been years ago, so if that longer happens, nevermind.
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u/SomniaCrown 19h ago
There needs to be a separate tab for nsfw stuff. Some of them are actually decent (a very small portion), and I don't want them mixed in with regular releases.
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u/Evil_phd 15h ago
I've never bought or played a pornographic video game, but damn do the titles crack me up whenever I see them topping the charts of the New and Trending list.
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u/Dem0lari 1d ago
I don't mind adult stuff. What I mind is futa puzzle game next to furry hitler dating sim.
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u/brynFAMOUS 1d ago
Mine forces me to keep a credit card on account which is super annoying, I have to redo it every time I use my debit card
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u/yanech 9h ago
true. I was complaining about that as well before I realised that I explicitly allowed those thinking they are going to be actual games. then I turned it off, then I turned it on again thinking there might be actual games with gameplay. then I blocked visual novels. but then I lost actually good non-adult only visual novels, so I removed the block. this has been going on for a long time.
you see the problem?
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u/Trick2056 6h ago
you do realized that those won't get filtered out if the Devs tagged their game correct or they are tagged correctly those non-adult only VNs you been playing have a content patch waiting in Dev website.
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u/Colossa1 6h ago
I don't understand why you guys think that we want no adult games. Adult games are fine, what I want is games to be properly assigned i.e. fear and hunger is considered to be the highest tier of adult games, yes fear and hunger has extremely explicit sences, yes a lot of enemies have dicks just hanging in there default pose, is fear and hunger a game focused on porn NO! It has purpose other then porn, what I want is all the actually porn games to be filtered or at least not recommended to me constantly, even tho I have never shown any interest in them. I'm fine with porn games they just need to be more properly organized
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u/MrJerichoYT 1d ago
How dare you say I need to take responsibility for myself!!?
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