But when it was tied to “gore”, if you tried to hide shitty horny games, you ended up hiding the vast majority of games too.
“Sexual content” still isn’t perfect tho, one “hot coffee” scene would likely trigger it like a game whose entire point is sus looking anime characters.
It wouldn’t be bad if there wasn’t so many, but it just clogs up the store with slop because dumb kids pay the $5-20 so the store pushes them. If someone breaks down and buys one, they’re prob very likely to keep buying them. So the algo (blindly) pushes them on everyone.
They need to just admit that a significant number of games on steam only exist as porn. And then they’d be able to actually separate them. But that’s a can of worms they’ll want to ignore as long as possible.
Steam did change their general “mature content” filtering recently-ish I think. That’s independent of tags.
In your account settings you can go to your Store preferences and enable or disable if you want “mature content”, violence and gore, “some nudity”, and possibly others, along with some example games for those categories.
Since I’m from Germany it stops at “some nudity”, since more explicit stuff is blocked here anyway, but if you’re from a more developed country you should get one or two more options.
That way you shouldn’t need to rely on tags to filter out all the porn games (if that’s what you want).
That’s a pretty big change…
NSFW is useless for video games anyways.
But when it was tied to “gore”, if you tried to hide shitty horny games, you ended up hiding the vast majority of games too.
“Sexual content” still isn’t perfect tho, one “hot coffee” scene would likely trigger it like a game whose entire point is sus looking anime characters.
It wouldn’t be bad if there wasn’t so many, but it just clogs up the store with slop because dumb kids pay the $5-20 so the store pushes them. If someone breaks down and buys one, they’re prob very likely to keep buying them. So the algo (blindly) pushes them on everyone.
They need to just admit that a significant number of games on steam only exist as porn. And then they’d be able to actually separate them. But that’s a can of worms they’ll want to ignore as long as possible.
Steam did change their general “mature content” filtering recently-ish I think. That’s independent of tags.
In your account settings you can go to your Store preferences and enable or disable if you want “mature content”, violence and gore, “some nudity”, and possibly others, along with some example games for those categories.
Since I’m from Germany it stops at “some nudity”, since more explicit stuff is blocked here anyway, but if you’re from a more developed country you should get one or two more options.
That way you shouldn’t need to rely on tags to filter out all the porn games (if that’s what you want).