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SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Flannelette posted:

You know you're on the right track in life when the Awful Game steam page links are already visited.

Who hasn't had Cinderella escape series on their front page?

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Dareon
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Who hasn't had Cinderella escape series on their front page?

There's a front page?

...oh, right, on Steam.

Commander Keene
Dec 21, 2016

Faster than the others



Dareon posted:

There's a front page?

...oh, right, on Steam.
Still seems like a valid question to me.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here

bessantj posted:

I thought this might be a 2D scantly clad fighter but I guess enough Dead or Alive games already exist.


It's great that you can get much more entertainment out of the fact that these games exist than you would if you actually bought and played them.

Star Citizen has made $200 million on that premise so far.,

GodspeedSphere
Apr 25, 2008
https://store.steampowered.com/app/469820/Genital_Jousting/

Genital Jousting tells the story of "John", a penis who needs to find a date for his high school reunion. Genital Jousting is also an online and local multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses for up to eight players at once.

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011
And it very much does not belong in this thread.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Yeah, it doesn't look deep, but it's the same sort of simple stuff that's hilarious for 10 minute spurts to early college kids

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

FoolyCharged posted:

10 minute spurts

Ah, to be 17 again.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

GodspeedSphere posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/469820/Genital_Jousting/

Genital Jousting tells the story of "John", a penis who needs to find a date for his high school reunion. Genital Jousting is also an online and local multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses for up to eight players at once.

Here are some old people playing it.

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

Looks fun.

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe
Yeah Genital Jousting is a game that knows EXACTLY what it is, and leans into it.

Jamfrost
Jul 20, 2013

I'm too busy thinkin' about my baby. Oh I ain't got time for nothin' else.
Slime TrainerS
Genital Jousting's story is sobering.

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer
Since when has it had a story? I haven't played it in ages but it was multiplayer only last time I played. I'm gonna need to play it again

OutOfPrint
Apr 9, 2009

Fun Shoe
GOTY: https://store.steampowered.com/app/958300/Cute_Girls/

Fart of Presto
Feb 9, 2001
Clapping Larry

Girls invite you to their world, test your speed and earn points by pressing the keys at the right moment. Unlock new stages by scoring certain amounts of points. If you just want to watch beautiful girls enter the free hands mode and relax.

:forkbomb:

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

Good game for the GOTY, but the wrong edition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/934990/Cute_Girls_VR/
Clearly you need the VR to trully immerse yourself.

Kanfy
Jan 9, 2012

Just gotta keep walking down that road.
The developer/publisher situation is interesting. They're clearly by the same Chinese joint, but one has "Dance studio mix", one has "Tomimar" and in addition to those two there's "tomimar" without the capital T, the makers of DREAM GIRLS VR, HOT GIRLS VR and SEXY GIRLS.

Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


Kanfy posted:

The developer/publisher situation is interesting. They're clearly by the same Chinese joint, but one has "Dance studio mix", one has "Tomimar" and in addition to those two there's "tomimar" without the capital T, the makers of DREAM GIRLS VR, HOT GIRLS VR and SEXY GIRLS.

I'd suspect its the same strat as Chinese spam games on the app store, you make lots of "companies" that are really just all the same one so any damage that one suffers for making trash/breaking the rules is compartmentalized.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
too many posts

Farg
Nov 19, 2013

Lid posted:

too many posts

:wrong:

TV Zombie
Sep 6, 2011

Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Going through this thread on a whim. I feel the need to wash my eyes out. Given what's allowed on Steam...what gets some games banned? It seems like a very thin line.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

TV Zombie posted:

Going through this thread on a whim. I feel the need to wash my eyes out. Given what's allowed on Steam...what gets some games banned? It seems like a very thin line.

The line seems to be drawn at the nebulous point of, "May get valve in legal trouble"

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

FoolyCharged posted:

The line seems to be drawn at the nebulous point of, "May get valve in legal trouble"

This, mostly. I suppose if there's enough of an outcry Valve would take action then as well.

SugarAddict
Oct 11, 2012

FoolyCharged posted:

The line seems to be drawn at the nebulous point of, "May get valve in legal trouble"

Terrible MMO games based around jiggle physics, useless armor, and 1000 year old little girls are apparently OK.
:nws: turn down your computers volume and open it in incognito mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qryJx6sHVos&list=PLl4CmnQ2VIyeB8Ozx30E8-hCog1ieFyb_&index=9
:nws:

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

CommissarMega posted:

This, mostly. I suppose if there's enough of an outcry Valve would take action then as well.

Yeah Hatred was removed from the store even though there was nothing legally questionable about it, because a game about playing a mass shooter isn’t exactly good PR in the current political climate.

Basically it all boils down to whether enough people make noise about something. Valve’s default position seems to be “we don’t care what’s on Steam”.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Also that one time a dev sent a death threat to Gaben.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
The Hatred devs also had ties to far (far) right groups in Poland, iirc.

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011
Don't forget Hated was removed and Gabe himself stepped in to say they went too far and reinstated it to the store.

It's wise PR for then to remove a game than to have questionable content.

Gynovore
Jun 17, 2009

Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!

TV Zombie posted:

Going through this thread on a whim. I feel the need to wash my eyes out. Given what's allowed on Steam...what gets some games banned? It seems like a very thin line.

Ever since HL2, Valve had some hippy-dippy "everyone is their own boss" type of management structure. Mucking through the 872 billion horrible games on Steam is something no one wants to do, so no one does. A game that draws a lot of complaints will get pulled, but tiny obscure 'games' that fly under the radar can be as horrible as you can imagine.

The Cheshire Cat
Jun 10, 2008

Fun Shoe

Gynovore posted:

Ever since HL2, Valve had some hippy-dippy "everyone is their own boss" type of management structure. Mucking through the 872 billion horrible games on Steam is something no one wants to do, so no one does. A game that draws a lot of complaints will get pulled, but tiny obscure 'games' that fly under the radar can be as horrible as you can imagine.

Well the flat corporate structure is more why they've barely released any games in the last decade despite having essentially unlimited money. Steam being terrible is more because despite having been on top for so long, they never set themselves up to manage it properly. They should have split Steam off into its own separate division of the company and then allowed it to grow as needed to handle its popularity, but instead all they've got is essentially the same tiny community team they had back when Steam only hosted Valve's own games.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Well they did put...out...hmm.

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

Gynovore posted:

Ever since HL2, Valve had some hippy-dippy "everyone is their own boss" type of management structure. Mucking through the 872 billion horrible games on Steam is something no one wants to do, so no one does. A game that draws a lot of complaints will get pulled, but tiny obscure 'games' that fly under the radar can be as horrible as you can imagine.

But surely that's just for the actual developers and artists, right? They've gotta have other staff too for poo poo like maintaining the servers, janitoring the floors, handling customer service (okay maybe not that one).


e: ^^^^ AFAIK Artifact wasn't a failure because of poor development effort or bad gameplay or anything. They just had some crazy monetization scheme where you have to buy the game just to get in the door and get a basic starter deck and then pay even more real money to get any card packs. At launch there was literally no way to get any new cards to play with without microtransactions, and the ranked/competitive online mode cost money to play too (because it gave out card packs when you won).

Probably Gabe's dumb idea. He was really into the Skyrim paid mods thing too.

RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jan 9, 2019

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
IIRC they were getting rid of a bunch of waifu games on the recommendation of Morality in Media, who then started saying games with LBGT themes were being objectifying and misogynistic and everyone suddenly realised they were literally a right wing Christian group using woke liberal language, so they basically said gently caress it, reversed course and opened the jizzgates.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
Stumbled across this one today. The screenshots are :nws: at all.

:nws: https://store.steampowered.com/app/994160/The_Seduction_of_Shaqeera/ :nws:

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

FrumpleOrz posted:

Stumbled across this one today. The screenshots are :nws: at all.

:nws: https://store.steampowered.com/app/994160/The_Seduction_of_Shaqeera/ :nws:
There are reviews.

quote:

The role-playing aspects in this game are surprisingly good and even come with some pleasant moments of choice & consequence.
2.4 hours on record.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

SelenicMartian posted:

There are reviews.

2.4 hours on record.

I like the angry negative review.

quote:

The sex minigame is a bad joke but the voice dialogue though story and moans major kudos for the voice actresses. It's no House Party but it a lewd game I HATE SEX MINIGAMES WHERE YOUR CHERACTER ISN'T APART OF THE ACTION!

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

"APART" is not a typo, probably?

TV Zombie
Sep 6, 2011

Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Leisure Suit Larry games don't fit here do they?

Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


TV Zombie posted:

Leisure Suit Larry games don't fit here do they?

The bad ones probably do.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

FoolyCharged posted:

The line seems to be drawn at the nebulous point of, "May get valve in legal trouble"

What amazes me is that they don't even seem to care about their own IP at this point, seeing as Hunt Down the Freeman is a loving PAID PRODUCT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/723390/Hunt_Down_The_Freeman/

Like, how does that happen? Do they just not care at all about Half-Life anymore?

...

Ah. Nevermind. Don't answer that.

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Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Rotten Red Rod posted:

What amazes me is that they don't even seem to care about their own IP at this point, seeing as Hunt Down the Freeman is a loving PAID PRODUCT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/723390/Hunt_Down_The_Freeman/

Like, how does that happen? Do they just not care at all about Half-Life anymore?

...

Ah. Nevermind. Don't answer that.

Wait I thought this got removed? What is it doing back on here?

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