As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Every few days, 27-year-old Rosario checks Steam. He wants to make sure his visual novel about a queer sex worker, Parfum Nostalgique, is still up on the popular PC game distribution platform. He’s heard of games getting pulled from Steam for simply having LGBTQ+ content, and just as many stories of creators who are surprised their games have survived an ongoing culling. “Nobody really knows what gets a game taken down,” Rosario told Polygon in an interview.