Nighthawks, the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam’s increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publisher Wadjet Eye Games, the game has been labelled ‘Adults Only’—causing it to be removed from Steam search and outright delisted in certain countries like Germany—despite claims from both developer and publisher that the RPG’s depictions of sex and nudity are very mild.
“We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches,” Wadjet Eye boss Dave Gilbert wrote on Bluesky. “We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.” Gilbert further commented that “Valve is basically treating Nighthawks like a porn game!” in responding to a reply to his initial post.
A game being labelled Adults Only can affect its visibility in several ways. Adults Only games will not appear in Steam searches by default, requiring users to log in, verify their age (which requires the use of a credit card in some countries) and adjust their preferred content settings before they become visible. In addition, the label can cause games to be delisted outright in certain countries.
There’s not even any tiddies! They’re all (according to the dev) covered by scenery. But you can have sex with a bear in BG3 and that’s not adult content
The sex with Halsen as a bear is like the only scene you don’t actually see, it is merely implied. But the other sex scenes are just a slight change to camera angle away from full penetration.
Except Minthara. There’s a solid LXIX scene with her, and while not exactly porn, it would definitely make a teenager watching skinemax in the eighties very happy.
10’s: I remember (M14) going to a friends place to play GTA SA. He was the lucky few who had a dad that didn’t care about it’s 17+ rating. We all know the first thing we did after jacking a car.
Back then the game was still available to purchase from most game shops. Leisure Suit Larry wasn’t tho.
LXIX?
It’s a number in Roman numerals that’s nice.
Oh, lol.
It also pronounces a bit like “LICKS”, which is a very nice coincidence.
Yea but BG3 was highly marketed and anticipated, whereas this will be the first time many are hearing of Nighthawks.
Valve should treat all games equally. So this is just favoritism bullshit.
Legally, they have to treat them differently, if Steam sells a game like BG3 and some government doesn’t like it, they have a PEGI rating to point to.
But if Steam sells a game like this without a rating from an age rating agency and a government doesn’t like it or requires ages verification for it, that’s on Valve.
Well I hope Valve realizes they just gave the devs of this game the best excuse to un-hide them! >:3