Finally, Steam is Getting Cleaner

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broter😏 9 Aug @ 6:45am

Finally, Steam is Getting Cleaner

Honestly, I’m glad Visa and Mastercard stepped in. Steam has been drowning in low-effort adult games for years — entire pages of the store are just copy-pasted asset flips with the same “click to undress” mechanic slapped on. If I wanted that, I’d go to a site dedicated to it. Steam should be for games.

This move sets a precedent: if publishers can’t process payments for that kind of content, maybe they’ll start putting more effort into making actual gameplay instead of hiding weak mechanics behind NSFW gimmicks.

And frankly? I hope this is just the start. Ban the shovelware “simulators” where the only point is to unlock lewd CGs. Ban the “match-3” clones with stock anime art that get passed off as games. If the best selling point is a cropped promo image for the community hub, it shouldn’t be on Steam.

People will say it’s “censorship,” but it’s really just quality control. There are thousands of great games that never get noticed because they’re buried under a pile of cheap clickbait titles. Cleaning out that pile makes the store better for everyone.

Less time scrolling past junk means more time finding something worth playing.

EDIT:

On visiting profiles just to “dig”

If your first move after disagreeing with someone in a discussion is to go snooping through their profile, that says a lot more about you than it does about them.

It’s not an argument — it’s an attempt to attack the person instead of their points.
It shows you’re more interested in “gotchas” than in having an actual discussion.
It’s… kind of pathetic, honestly.
Even if you do find something, it doesn’t change the validity of what I said.

Disagreement should spark debate, not a scavenger hunt through someone’s profile — especially when nothing you find even pertains to the argument.

Last edited by broter😏; 9 Aug @ 7:30am

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Boblin the Goblin 9 Aug @ 6:48am

So what games have you made?

datCookie 9 Aug @ 6:49am

Originally posted by broter😏:

Less time scrolling past junk means more time finding something worth playing.

You can already not scroll through any of this "junk" by enabling the filter that stops you from seeing it in the store. A filter which is automatically enabled by default and you must turn it off in order to see these adult games you loathe so much.

Games are interactive visuals, it doesn't matter how much or little effort is put into them or what the player has to do, so long as they're legal. Pong is just a dot moving between two lines, yet is one of the first video games to ever exist and loved by many. No one seems to have a problem with it being nothing more than that.

Keep your adult filter on and you'll not have these problems.

Wolfgang 9 Aug @ 6:52am

How about setting your filters properly in your profile? Oh, wait. Adult games are already filtered out by default. Don't complain about seeing stuff that you actively opted into.
Just because you don't like low effort shovelware, doesn't mean that there aren't any good adult games that are made with actual effort.

Kyrus86 9 Aug @ 6:55am

If you don't like it, don't play it.
Those people won't stop at content you aren't interested in. They will also work to remove stuff you *are* interested in.

But I'm pretty sure you're a troll anyway.

Edit: Those 7 jester awards on your profile do support that notion.

Last edited by Kyrus86; 9 Aug @ 6:58am

Chika Ogiue 9 Aug @ 7:05am

Originally posted by Kyrus86:
But I'm pretty sure you're a troll anyway.

The guy has 2,692.8 hrs on record in Koikatsu Party, a game about shagging school girls. So yes, he's simply farming for awards.

Last edited by Chika Ogiue; 9 Aug @ 7:06am

broter😏 9 Aug @ 7:09am

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:
Originally posted by Kyrus86:
But I'm pretty sure you're a troll anyway.

The guy has 2,692.8 hrs on record in Koikatsu Party, a game about shagging school girls. So yes, he's simply farming for awards.

About that "2,692.8 hours" claim...

Fact check: My Steam profile is private. That means you cannot see my games list, achievements, or hours played unless I allow it.
So your oddly specific "2,692.8 hours" figure is pure fiction.

Private profiles hide all playtime stats from non-friends.
You pulled that number from thin air.
Making up stats to smear someone says more about you than me.

If you want to pretend you can see through private settings, maybe check your own profile picture first. The irony’s hard to miss.

Boblin the Goblin 9 Aug @ 7:13am

Originally posted by broter😏:
Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

The guy has 2,692.8 hrs on record in Koikatsu Party, a game about shagging school girls. So yes, he's simply farming for awards.

About that "2,692.8 hours" claim...

Fact check: My Steam profile is private. That means you cannot see my games list, achievements, or hours played unless I allow it.
So your oddly specific "2,692.8 hours" figure is pure fiction.

Private profiles hide all playtime stats from non-friends.

You pulled that number from thin air.

Making up stats to smear someone says more about you than me.

If you want to pretend you can see through private settings, maybe check your own profile picture first. The irony’s hard to miss.

It isn't private.

broter😏 9 Aug @ 7:13am

Originally posted by datCookie:
Originally posted by broter😏:

Less time scrolling past junk means more time finding something worth playing.

You can already not scroll through any of this "junk" by enabling the filter that stops you from seeing it in the store. A filter which is automatically enabled by default and you must turn it off in order to see these adult games you loathe so much.

Games are interactive visuals, it doesn't matter how much or little effort is put into them or what the player has to do, so long as they're legal. Pong is just a dot moving between two lines, yet is one of the first video games to ever exist and loved by many. No one seems to have a problem with it being nothing more than that.

Keep your adult filter on and you'll not have these problems.

The flaw in your comparison

The Steam store is not overflowing with 5,000 Pong clones, so your example doesn’t hold up.
What it is overflowing with are nearly identical match-3 “adult” games, copy-pasted with minimal effort, the only change being a different PNG “reward” slapped on top.

These games aren’t notable milestones like Pong — they’re shovelware churned out en masse.
Filters don’t solve the underlying problem of the store being saturated with low-quality asset flips.
Pretending quantity of clones isn’t an issue ignores the broader curation problem.

So no, this isn’t about “hating adult games” — it’s about Steam being flooded with low-effort duplicates that drag down the store’s overall quality.

Yasahi 9 Aug @ 7:17am

Originally posted by broter😏:
Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

The guy has 2,692.8 hrs on record in Koikatsu Party, a game about shagging school girls. So yes, he's simply farming for awards.

About that "2,692.8 hours" claim...

Fact check: My Steam profile is private. That means you cannot see my games list, achievements, or hours played unless I allow it.
So your oddly specific "2,692.8 hours" figure is pure fiction.

Private profiles hide all playtime stats from non-friends.

You pulled that number from thin air.

Making up stats to smear someone says more about you than me.

If you want to pretend you can see through private settings, maybe check your own profile picture first. The irony’s hard to miss.

Your profile isn't private and your reviews are public. Over 4000 hours in HuniePop 2 and over 200 in HuniePop too. Enjoy: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/brotersmirk/recommended/930210/

Last edited by Yasahi; 9 Aug @ 7:18am

broter😏 9 Aug @ 7:17am

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:
Originally posted by broter😏:

About that "2,692.8 hours" claim...

Fact check: My Steam profile is private. That means you cannot see my games list, achievements, or hours played unless I allow it.
So your oddly specific "2,692.8 hours" figure is pure fiction.

Private profiles hide all playtime stats from non-friends.

You pulled that number from thin air.

Making up stats to smear someone says more about you than me.

If you want to pretend you can see through private settings, maybe check your own profile picture first. The irony’s hard to miss.
It isn't private.

Correction:

My profile is public.
My game details are private. That means anyone who isn’t me cannot see my games list or playtime, with the single exception being hours displayed in my public reviews.

Any claim about me having thousands of hours is entirely fabricated.
If you can’t see the data, you can’t state it as fact.

So no — you have no access to my actual hours, and your statement is flat-out false.

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Boblin the Goblin 9 Aug @ 7:19am

Originally posted by broter😏:
Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:
It isn't private.

Correction:

My profile is public.
My game details are private. That means anyone who isn’t me cannot see my games list or playtime, with the single exception being hours displayed in my public reviews.

Any claim about me having thousands of hours is entirely fabricated.

If you can’t see the data, you can’t state it as fact.

So no — you have no access to my actual hours, and your statement is flat-out false.

The reviews state your hours.

Hiding the reviews won't work. Already got screenshots.

Last edited by Boblin the Goblin; 9 Aug @ 7:22am

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broter😏 9 Aug @ 7:22am

Originally posted by Yasahi:
Originally posted by broter😏:

About that "2,692.8 hours" claim...

Fact check: My Steam profile is private. That means you cannot see my games list, achievements, or hours played unless I allow it.
So your oddly specific "2,692.8 hours" figure is pure fiction.

Private profiles hide all playtime stats from non-friends.

You pulled that number from thin air.

Making up stats to smear someone says more about you than me.

If you want to pretend you can see through private settings, maybe check your own profile picture first. The irony’s hard to miss.

Your profile isn't private and your reviews are public. Over 4000 hours in HuniePop 2 and over 200 in HuniePop too.

Reading without the “rage goggles”

HuniePop is indeed a polished game that happens to include adult content — I’m not disputing that.
My point was never “all adult games are bad.” It’s that the store is saturated with low-effort clones (often match-3 asset flips) that rely solely on adult content as the selling point, without the gameplay quality that HuniePop actually delivers.

HuniePop: adult content + solid gameplay = genuine product.
Shovelware clones: adult content + recycled assets = store spam.
One does not excuse the flood of the other.

And for the record: 4,000 hours in HuniePop (a game with actual gameplay and polish) is not the same as the 2,000+ hours someone falsely claimed I had in Koikatsu — a game that exists solely as pornography with no gameplay beyond that. They’re incomparable in both design and purpose.

If anything, HuniePop proves adult games can be well-made — which is why the asset-flip flood is so frustrating in the first place.

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Boblin the Goblin 9 Aug @ 7:22am

Originally posted by Kyrus86:
Originally posted by broter😏:
...
Your reviews are public and they show your playtime.

He's hiding them now lol.

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robilar5500 9 Aug @ 7:23am

I'm just curious how you managed to put 4400 hours into HuniePop2.

Last edited by robilar5500; 9 Aug @ 7:24am

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Wolfpig 9 Aug @ 7:24am

Originally posted by Yasahi:
Your profile isn't private and your reviews are public. Over 4000 hours in HuniePop 2 and over 200 in HuniePop too. Enjoy: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/brotersmirk/recommended/930210/

That is nuts....the second one is far worse then the first so the numbers should be the other way around...

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