Uncensored Hentai game coming to a Steam near you!

Violence is the easiest way to create engaging interaction with a virtual world.
That's not to say it's impossible, it's just the easiest. The best example I can give is imagine if Dark Souls had no combat.
Dark Souls is a game that's praised for its excellent lore and simplistic yet effective storytelling, but that's not even a quarter of what made the game click with a large audience. The world of Dark Souls is a world built for combat.

Really, I can only think of one game that managed to get me personally invested in its world without violence. That'd actually be Gone Home. LA Noire also came close, but it just HAD to have cover shooting in it. Grumblegrumble.

Anyhow, the way Gone Home encouraged you to interact with the environment to find clues about what was going on was an excellent way of drawing you into the world, at least on the first playthrough. It was a game where you were the character you were playing as. It was a personalized experience.
I mean, don't take my words as total praise. Gone Home still had several flaws, particularly with how the narrative played out, but what it did well it did really well. Gone Home, purely from a gameplay perspective, is what most walking simulators should strive to be. Walking sims should be a personalized game where you experience what the character experiences, rather than that samey slow garbage The Chinese Room shits out every now and again.

Violence is a long-running human "tradition". Not to say it's limited to humans, but throughout history a lot of disputes were solved with fists and rocks. And muscley naked men racing each other. Thanks for Mount Your Friends Ancient Greece.

"Cue Rocket League theme music"

It's not just games, it's most media too. Sadly we live in a society that thinks it's okay to show brutal scenes of murder and violence, but images of our means of reproduction are considered obscene.

Theme Hospital, transport tycoon, sim city, roller coaster tycoon, sims, most driving games, flight sims, train sims.... then there's fantasy stuff like Sonic and Mario which features pretty minimal violence.

To quote a rather apt line from South Park The Movie:

"Sheila Broflovski: Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty woids! That's what this war is all about!"

while on the other hand counter-examples such as Sparkle 2 EVO, bloody the very name of gaming itself with all it's unconstrained gore and vile violence !! shame!

Lol that's just the first stage of Spore... :S

considering there are games on steam that let you slaughter humans by the millions in many horrible ways and even almost snufffilm like games .. i honestly can't see how this could be any more worse ... if it's about taking steam serious as a platform ... ... well that ship has sailed a very long time ago ..

Mate sex and violence are seen very differently. You can argue about whether they should be until the giant sandworms come home but they are.

But how they're seen depends very heavily on where you live, and irrational view points should be challenged no matter how common.

two different things that people can percieve at a similarly disgusted level ... than there is the fact that both can be combined to make people even more uncomfortable and disgusted ... violence in itself can be some kind of perversion ...

Games already struggle to be taken seriously. If you start plastering interactive porn all over the storefront of the largest digital distributor it's not going to help. If they're going to do it just stick them in their own little genre that can only be seen/accessed if you actually CLICK on "H-games" or whatever.

I can't quite imagine why anyone would want to buy this game on Steam. Steam is primarily a social platform - having this sort of game start up basically sends a message to all your friends "Quitch is about to start masturbating".

"Quitch has played 732 hours of College Tentacle Surprise" Who doesn't want THAT on their profile.

Sorry Quitch... warner started it!

Well, Katawa Shoju wouldn't have qualified for Steam either, and I thought it was excellent. There's nothing wrong with tackling adult themes in games, the problem is the portion of the gaming audience confusing dark, gritty and violent with adult. That's the real immaturity. You see it even in the dismissal of the PA art style as being "kiddy".

Gaming is the largest entertainment medium in the world. Who gives a **** whether "they" take it seriously? Whether they do or not is clearly irrelevant to its success.

The guy who created Hotline Miami 2 had to actively encourage piracy of his own game in Australia because the numpties on the classification board think all video games are supposed to be Splatoon.

So you don't mean "they", you mean Australia? The issues of Australian censorship extend well beyond gaming.

Wasn't that because of sexual violence? Pretty sure the "sexual" part was the problem.
I mean Australia seems to rate "Gears of War" at a 15+. Here in germany that game is either 18+ or "not rated, so don't sell it out in the open". So pure violence seems to be pretty fine for australia. Or, more likely, Australias rating system is just utterly broken.

Implied sexual assault. Which turned out to be stuntwork in the context of the game...