It feels like VNs are at the mercy of whoever is picked to evaluate them, without an actually consistent criteria.

Funny how they allow a game with monsters eating and messing with girls, not the sequel or games that are more tame

The steam approval process is headed by a single man. An elderly German gentleman residing in Argentina...

You know it’s bad when an actual good story is rejected but “Sex with Hitler” is perfectly fine for some reason

I can appreciate the actual Knuckles clips being trimmed down just to keep the video rolling without lingering on a gag.

I love how the entire Sex With Hitler series is approved, like everyone's in on the massive meme that it is when really it's probably just a wild shot in the dark XD

I also like the subtle humor here with the game order to accentuate that there's no consistency in steam's ""policy""

When uncensored Evenicle got approved but censored Evenicle 2 didn't... like bruh.

Steam be like Games that actually show genitalia: Approved! Anime games with light/mild fanservice: No! It's now illegal!

You're overlooking how many of those VNs are censored or butchered to even get on steam...

So it was Knuckles’ fault all along…

When you only approve one of the prequel/sequel lmao

Six with Adolf looks like a children friendly game

Wait steam actually refuses games!? Some of the games on the platform are so bad that this seriously suprises me

I always thought it was funny certain meme "games" like Sex with Hitler, Fap Simulator etc. were allowed onto steam and actual games/vns weren't.

Steam: This is too violent and too sexual! Also Steam: Damn, Hitler killing thousands of innocents got me acting up...

Steam denying DT2 and DT22 but allowing "My Stepmother has a 20 incher" or whatever makes me livid.

The worst feeling is when your favorite visual novel gone from steam when you still saving money to buy it,or waiting untill summer discount.

Yeah steam process is so weird lol.

Bear sex? APPROVED! Anime breasts? NO! IT'S NOW ILLEGAL

This hit me on a spiritual level. I've come across every non- approved vn on this list and just chuckled every time i couldnt find it on steam. The meteor world actor one is especially hillarious

Steam has a really weird system when approving VN titles, why did Amatsutsumi got rejected in Steam while those Hitler Sex games got accepted?

Speaking of Steam, check this video out. I cannot believe this made it on Steam: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7qlpK9jyZfbaY0.html

We really need more videos like this one, people have to know!

As Gaben famously once said "These things, they take time."

From my experience, it feels like there is some sort of discrimination against japanese games, at least compared to english and chinese ones, which seem to get more leeway unlike the former. Then again, Evenicle 1 got release without any sort of censorship so who the fuck knows at this point .

There's probably that 1 or 2 guys with hating anime and anything coming from Japan as their main personality chosen to review some of these lol (the same type you often see ranting on any anime-ish mods on L4D2 workshop)

I guess every japanese VN devs should now start putting the austrian painter as one of their characters and have him on the game covers to get approved by steam 😂🤣🤣

when Knuckles went "I don't know... Approved!", I broke out laughing.

It's a gacha. Steam is, as we know, very laissez-faire organized so whether you pass is based on who you got as your reviewer... I'm sure the companies like Kagura has some sort of "assigned reviewer," but idk about other companies and even Kagura lost the gacha sometimes...

I can imagine those games having hundreds of playtime in Gabe's private account

Media just hate anime, that's why😂

Steam: For VNs, we'll decide with a coin flip to approve or disapprove.

And they wonder why pirating is still a thing

The process is random scattershot at best, and feels almost xenophobic at worst. I can't really speculate on the nature of the people making the decisions too much, but the inconsistency is absolutely worth calling out, but western journalism and a lot of larger content creators especially have a problem with anything coming from Japan, and especially if it contains sexual content, that there's not a lot of hope that some bigger attention could be brought to it. It feels like they REALLY only 'found out' when they messed with one of the bigger titles from a much bigger publisher on the platform, but the rest of these are such a drop in the bucket (and that's by no means commentary on their quality but their place in a huge platform space like Steam) that they can make these decisions and there never really be enough of an outrage to matter. Sex With Hitler being allowed consistently continues to feel bewildering and almost like an intentional shot.

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The Hitler games and other such gross bootlegs are an active blight on Steam's stores...

Still sad about the whole Evenicle 2 shenanigans. Even more sadder cause it actually has gameplay instead of slapping some shock value and insert it into Ren'Py. Even MORE sadder cause the game has built-in "streamer mode". Yes, you can actually toggle the censor in-game, it's an actual feature. Is that still not acceptable enough?

Ah, steam logic... I always hated it!

And they still wondering why people sailed the seven seas...

they actually saw the game song of saya showing fully exposed boobs and said ''yeah, that's fine''. at that point they might as well allow sex scenes on steam (some of these game aren't even esrb rated so shouldn't they just allow sex scenes on steam and leave it at that?}

Muramasa being denied harkens back to when Berserk was temporarily taken off store shelves.

Aristoc*nts: APPROVED 🥳 Chaos;Child: NO. 😐

Thank you for talking about the visual novels

Mary Skelter Finale at least made it through.

>get approved >"profile features limited"

Easy, devs just gotta put hitler in the front of the cover art. 😂

Steam: Evenicle 1 = Approved Evenicle 2 = No. It's illegal Also Steam: Sex with Hitler franchise = "APPROVED"

I think they got a little bit more loose after Chaos;Head Noah controversy, EVEN THOUGH right after that, Dungeon Travelers 2 didnt get approved at all(although maybe cuz it was rejected already before). Honestly steam approval process still sucks... But maybe VN localizers can take some notes from NekoNyan, since they got Clover Days issue solved or find some other loop hole, like maybe re-cutting muramasa and putting it on steam with the japanese name instead(I saw some hgames cut and pass with a different name like that, before adult games were allowed on steam). BUUUT as much as it sucks for VN publishers, steam still stands the test of time, so I can always support publishers on steam only, since this is a niche genre, its too good to have everything easy to get, in one place with just few clicks, like, for real, I still have Newton and the Apple Tree in my steam library and can play it and finding a patch is easy enough. I hope VN publishers explore more ways to get games on steam.

I find it funny that competing publishers lambasted Valve when they started allowing H games into their store. Now, almost all of them are also selling the same type of games. Even funnier everyone piled on Valve, again, when they censored or ban some H games on their store.

Game: Sheep in dreams I dont knooow... *APPROVED*

Doing research, GOG has most of the "illegal" stuff. Also, MWA 1 looked HARDCORE. I only found it buyable on a site that specializes in hentai VAs and the previews looked pretty heavy.

Also Steam: *Approves a majority of puzzle hentai games.

When they don't approve FMD but they approve the wrong type of H games

I loved how after all the media buzz and people demanding blood they just went "Approved" :D Ay lmao

Im telling ya there's a guy at the office approving at random

0:45 , yoooo i want this game now 😂

I will protect it with all of my honor, Take me to the dungeon is the sweetest Eroge ever! The gameplay is truly enjoyable to play, along with its story

MEDIC, MEDIC WHERE ARE YOU

They banned Chaos;Head because it's fucking awful

i knew muramasa was gonna be here LOL

This is just the Australian ratings board

Still so funny they didn't let Evenicle II because of the flashback h scene

Swear it sounds like they're run by bots... like a certain platform we all know.

Newton and the apple trees no longer available on steam 😢

I thought i've seen some shit, but FOUR ITERATIONS OF A GAME WHERE ANIME GIRLS DO THE DIRTY WITH HITLER? I can't.

There's a couple of Furry Hitler VN games...don't ask me how I know.

What a dumpster fire.

Straight up ive heard people in my school last year talk about the last one (but they never directly said the name)

I think this has not nothing to do with criteria instead by hardware and software specificacions. Is not strange see Japanese games dont work well in western computers. Generally you need a language emulator, and sometimes does not even work anyway.

Oh man, its already been one year since the #SaveChaosHead and #SaveSciADV movement. I remember seeing it on Sunday night and immediatly sending emails to Gabe Newell and other people at Valve, Im glad it worked.

how tf subarashiki hibi manage to sneak in, that is the most unhinged hand crafted VN

bro the last ones im dead 💀💀💀

Steam approval of adult visual novels makes even less sense than 3 wave feminist in USA.

Some games uploaded are the steam ToS "safe" versions, and the "Xtra" content can be downloaded from their website and dropped into some game folder.

Steam’s policy: we’re not gonna allow any 18+ games! (Unless it features elfs, cat girls, aliens, incest, minors, or dictators.)

Cafe Stella and the grim reapers Butterflies is severely underrated

Can someone explain to me the joke I'm a little confused I just see visual novels

It still baffles me that they approved KUROINU of all possible eroges. Heavily censored to a laughable degree, but still.....

The ending was perfect.

I always find this funny because they used to be a lot more strict, not just in quality but also the type of content allowed. But they also didn't have refunds. So yeah, some good, some bad.

What do they think up in steam headquarters... aka valve

im not even really fan of VNs but but even i think this is way too inconsistent

I always hated that most of the anime games on Steam are very generic, very copy and pasted and that companies don't try to do unique stuff. But seeing how both Sony and Valve treats anime and japanese games, i can see why.

Surprised by the lack of friendship with benefits

This was hilarious and informative. Well done

RIP My Sweetest Monster 2, rejected despite the first one being on steam.

I do not like the prospects of a game that has a physically attractive anime female winking and smiling at me with colorful text below her "To the Dungeon!"

The case of Evenicle 2 was weird even for Steam

Steam's approval process for VNs is a coin flip

Seeing that To the Dungeon game on steam sales was a fuckin mental flash bang

I love Clannad.

Steam doesn't have an approval process, you pay them $100 dollars and they'll list literally anything.

Ya, you make a pretty decent point laddy (or lassie). Edit: Approved

Is it depends on who paid Valve the most?

They had me in the first half not going to lie

Clannad and Steins;Gate more than deserve to be on Steam

The truth truly hurts

Piracy: Allow me to introduce myself

I remember watching chaos head back when i was it early high school....didnt understand shit towards the end . Don't remember much of the 2nd chaos head anime too