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An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores (www.theverge.com)
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Horses, a first-person narrative horror game, was banned from the Epic Games Store just hours before it was set to launch on December 2nd. Then, a day after launch, the Humble store (temporarily) banned it as well. The decision shocked the developers at Santa Ragione, makers of the critically respected Saturnalia, as these storefronts were the homes they’d found for their game two years before it was preemptively banned from Steam.

Valve and Epic say Horses violates their sexual content policies. Humble hasn’t yet said why it banned the game.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They made an art piece that tows the line in the minefield so hard that it is causing explosions when people try to follow along...

Yeah ok, so sounds like they accomplished their goal in the art sense and just won't get the wide audience and monetary rewards for making an art piece that hurt people.

I see nothing wrong here.

[–] AngryMob@lemmy.one 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Theyre getting more attention from all these articles every day than they ever had before for sure. Theyre loving this. None of their games have had much success, reviews low, player counts near 0... https://steamdb.info/developer/Santa+Ragione/

I dont care what obscure indie awards they won, 99% of people commenting, complaining, etc have never heard of the studio or their games, even within the indie space, the numbers show that.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, honestly this is a fantastic ad campaign for them and they are in fact getting rewarded for towing that line by getting the conversation on them.