
The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban
Ash Parrish
created: July 29, 2025, 7:12 p.m. | updated: July 30, 2025, 11:36 a.m.
Last week, Steam did similarly, removing a swath of games from its platform after implementing stricter policies related to adult content.
In addition to NSFW content, notable projects that didn’t have the tag were caught up in the purge as well.
Itch.io acknowledged that the blanket delisting of all its adult content wasn’t ideal and has created concern among its users.
We do not support adult content.” Payoneer, one of itch.io’s other payment processors, declined to comment.
In 2014, PayPal threatened to remove all its services from Patreon because the site hosted adult content creators.
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