That Rape Day Game Is Removed From The Steam Store

So much for Valve’s “anything goes” policy. A day ago, a game called Rape Day popped up on Steam. It’s been removed from the store recently.

According to Valve’s Erik Johnson, the company explained its decision-making about Rape Day’s removal.

“Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary—we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers.

After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think Rape Day poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam.”

Johnson also added that the company will help developers express themselves and find an audience, but this particular game’s subject matter makes it hard for Valve to do so without coming off as supporting said matter. It’ll be nice if they did elaborate more on whether it was the possible sexual content that influenced this decision. Or just be more transparent with their release policy.

Rape Day is a visual novel where players control the choices of a “menacing serial killer rapist during a zombie apocalypse” and “verbally harass, kill, and rape women as you choose to progress the story.” Here’s the rest of the charming description:

“It’s a dangerous world with no laws. The zombies enjoy eating the flesh off warm humans and brutally raping them but you are the most dangerous rapist in town.”

Here’s the trailer. Fair warning: it’s pretty messed up, will remind you of those crappy late 90s static CG adventure games, and needs a lot of proof-reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKr3FX6vl8