Image missing.
Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free

Robin Bea

created: Aug. 6, 2025, 5:28 p.m. | updated: Aug. 12, 2025, 2:37 p.m.

Vile: Exhumed is a horror game intended to launch on Steam right in the midst of the storefront removing huge swaths of games, but ended up banned from sale instead. According to developer Cara Cadaver, Steam pulled the game for “sexual content with depictions of real people,” which the game does not contain. A horror game about the danger of misogyny is now being given away for free after Steam banned it. On a new website they set up, Vile: Exhumed can be downloaded entirely for free, with an option for players to leave a donation. A campaign to keep pressure on payment processors by calling their support lines also remains underway, but so far, none have backed down from the bans.

4 months, 2 weeks ago: Inverse