While Steam is home to many games with racy content, very few with nudity make it though, making House Party something of an anomaly.Īnother exception, the award-winning erotic visual novel Ladykiller in a Bind by Toronto-based Christine Love, launched last year on other online stores, but was eventually approved for its uncensored release on Steam. " House Party had a lot of sex scenes, and the nature of these scenes I found a bit too much for my audience - specifically scenes with shaming and blackmail," she said. Ricci told that the scenario was removed in a recent update. He said the change was made "to adjust it to our own tastes with how far we were willing to let this scene go, but that's a judgement call every developer should have the right to make and not be questioned."Ĭanadian gamer and cosplayer Azzyland posted a video featuring House Party on her YouTube channel, but she refrained from recording more after viewing these scenarios. "Valve was very supportive and helpful from the start, which is why the removal came as a shock to me," he said.Īccording to, one possible storyline in the game involves blackmailing a female character into stripping in front of the player, after finding nude photos on her phone and threatening to make them public. Ricci told CBC News that his dealings with Valve were initially very positive. House Party was briefly removed from the PC store Steam for 'pornography,' but its creator questions why it was approved for sale in the first place if that were the case. "I understand where Steam is coming from," he added, criticizing what he called "an alarming societal perception of sex and nudity as something evil, even more so than murder, genocide, torture and gore which is widely accepted and prevalent in most other video games." "I know there are many games with nudity, and there are also games with sex scenes as well, including really popular titles, so it's all rather confusing and I don't know exactly where the line is or what in particular I should be censoring," Ricci wrote. Players who buy it can still download a patch file from Eek! Games' site to reinstate all of the nudity that was removed. According to a blog post by Eek! Games' Bobby Ricci, Valve (the company behind Steam) said it was removed for "pornography" and wouldn't be allowed back until changes to the game's content were made.Įarly Saturday, the game was re-added to Steam, but with the on-screen nudity censored. Removed for 'pornography'Īfter about a month on Steam's digital shelves, House Party vanished. "It's stupendously sexist and depressing, a sort of unaware failure of an alpha male simulator," he wrote. Rock Paper Shotgun's John Walker, meanwhile, called it "misogynistic," while also panning its "ugly" visuals and the clunky, glitchy way characters move around the house. Videos of popular YouTubers like Sean (jacksepticeye) McLoughlin and Canadian Matt Shea shouting incredulously at the game's salacious humour have been viewed millions of times. Reaction to House Party has been mixed, but enthusiastic either way.
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