Steam Banned Our Game, We're Fighting to Get It Unbanned
Hey everyone, Sei-ren here.
We’ve got some tough news to share. After reviewing our game, Steam has banned our app from their platform, citing a violation of their rules—specifically, the depiction of characters who are minors.
Let us be clear: our game does not feature any such characters. For instance, Margaret, our protagonist, is a widow, and her story has nothing to do with the claims made. We’re already working on an appeal to challenge this decision and will keep you updated on any progress. In the meantime, we’re exploring other options to ensure the game’s release goes ahead as planned.
Thank you for your support! We’re doing everything we can to resolve this and move forward.
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Margaret’s sin (Release!)
Margaret’s Sin is a short, choice-based visual novel with 18+ content.
Status | Released |
Publisher | |
Author | Sei-ren Publisher |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | 2D, Adult, Anime, Cute, Dating Sim, Eroge, Hentai, NSFW, sex |
Languages | German, English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified) |
More posts
- Our game is now available on DLsite!5 days ago
- Huge Thanks for Your Support and Some Exciting News!8 days ago
- Our next goal - 12.000$!16 days ago
- A Big Thank You! ❤21 days ago
- Margaret's Sin is now released on itch.io, Boosty, and Patreon!22 days ago
- Release Date: June 20!30 days ago
- Release Updates and Our Steam Struggle42 days ago
- Game News and Release Info!50 days ago
- Korean Language Added66 days ago
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Question: so the game is done? I ll definitely buy it to help out an such.
If I buy the game will i get all future updates without having to pay, this is the first game im buying on itch
If you ever need coders or developers, I can help, never really worked with visual novel systems like renpy but, I am always down to help even if its unpaid internship type work, just looking for something to do over the summer.
It's the mention of high school in an adult game. I've seen other games pulled for the same reason. Description is enough to get it flagged for banning. Since everyone is an adult, maybe a change to a college crush would suffice to get it unbanned. Good luck either way.
Even in Steam, sometimes there are stooges who do their job with the heel of their left foot.
Good luck returning to Steam!
Thank you for the kind words! We hope that with the next project, there won’t be such issues, and we’ll be more vigilant. (If we manage to raise enough funds now.)
How's hard to change those characters which Steam disapproved? I meant, I would like to suggest to make a thing like "some other indie devs does" - create an altered version of the game which Steam will approve AND create a patch which brings back the original content, BUT it will be uploaded here on somewhere else, outside the Steam.
The thing is, they didn't even give us a chance to fix it. Or the opportunity to modify it either.
Oh, this is insane!
I wondered why it disappeared from my Wishlist!
I know this is a bit late, but you can always sell it here on Itch by making it a Paid project with your listed minimum price to access the content
Yes, we will sell it here for sure, but now a little later than planned, because of the appeal and ban....
this isn't the first time ppl on steam had a game removed from the platform another game was also removed for the same reason honestly I think ppl have nothing better to do then complain on adult games mean if there into my little pony games then go play MLP and leave the adult content alone but again sorry to hear that you too have to deal with this hope you get it all taken care of
Sad to hear this, as BlackKnight82 mentioned they kinda are definitive, as alternatives to steam there might be(itch not included as we are already here) gog, jastusa, kagura store, might be more that i am unaware of, but i'm not sure about contract, and visibility and how many people buy there
We were also offered DLsite - but only with localization for Asia... We are still trying to get a response from steam and looking for alternatives. Thank you for your attention to our game! We really appreciate it.
I think they focused on the one scene where the MC is having the flash back of that weird fantasy he had over Margaret in highschool, maybe it could be that one sceneat the start of the game.
Unfortunately there are very few chances from what I have understand. Steam is worst with devs that the justice is with criminals... they have appeal. Steam.... basically doesn't.
and the policy of steam is very very weirs with nobody really knows what the rules are. From what I have understand depends who will review your game (i understand there's somebody named Mary who likes to ban AVN for whatever reason)
also in many cases they don't tell you what's the problem. and you can't "fix" the issue once is banned. I haven't put anything on steam, but that's what I have heard. But It's weird that the demo passed, but the game didn't. the ether change the reviewer of the game contains something weird? From what I know only realism or pedophilia are reasons for banning. And pedophilia is "looking to young even if you say it's 18 yo+" So even the graphic style might be and issue. It would be easier if those idiots talked but here we are... Some reviewers seam to want to ban a game and they just look for reasons. That's the biggest issue with steam from what I have heard.
Anyway I really hope you can unban your game, but i doubt that it's possible.
You should think of alternatives: patreon (hate them but...), subscribestar, the guy that makes Fetish Locator has a store, etc. itch.io is not known enough unfortunately.
I wish you the best of luck and don't forget to announce on f95 what you have decided.
PS: If by a miracle, the game gets unbanned, will the people who buy the game here get a steam key? 10x
https://www.oppaiman.com/?l=en i was referring to this store... is was fresh women ... i messed up the games :)
Saw your game had disappeared from my Steam wishlist and assumed something along these general lines had transpired. Still looking forward to the full release and hopefully you can prevail on your appeal with Steam for the wider market access.
Thanks for the kind words, we'll look for a solution! <3!!
First off, let me say the demo was amazing, and i'm sure the full game will even better.
I hope you find a solution to the steam problem, and it would be cool if you released on itch.io in the meantime!
Thanks for the kind words, we'll look for a solution!
I've heard steam is doing this a lot, and what's more annoying is they normally refuse to look into it any further if they come to that conclusion.
I'm assuming they came to that conclusion because of the scene where Margret was at school with the MC, unfortunately steam doesn't care if its college or just school themed with adults they refuse to have any depictions of a school in nsfw games on their store, which i get but even if you choose to alter the scene or remove it out right they wont change their mind.
Its a crappy situation but i hope you're able to sort something out, i was looking forward to the release of this game.
Yes, we also thought about this scene and have already removed it from the game, sending the game for a new review ( I don't think it will make any difference, but it's worth a try. ).
It's because of the card companies they need to stop being cry babies since gamers will buy any visual novels if the story is good, the concept is good, and art is good because the companies aren't making the games it's the indie, but the card companies are fine with AI art those fuckers.
I believe people should draw whatever content and have the rights to sell it on steam.
Card Companies shouldn't have the right to blackmail what we can't buy on steam that's the whole point buying with a card. Unless we are buying real illegal porn that isn't two drawing fucking each other.
I've heard of this happening to other games who also had no minors involved. It can be impossible to tell what caused them to make the wrong assumption.
I am sorry to read that, your game is so gorgeus, I am unable to see what's wrong with.
I want to wish you good luck.
At the moment we are not stopping development and plan to finish the game by May 30, after which we will look for a solution to publish it. Thank you for your kind words.