After Accumulating More Than 200,000 Wishlists, A Nsfw Gacha Game...

After four years on mobile devices, BrownDust 2 was set to come to Steam on December 16, but less than two weeks ahead of time the whole thing has been stopped.

A planned Steam release for the adult gacha game BrownDust 2 has been halted over what Gamfs N and Neowiz say is a conflict with Steam's policy requirements "that cannot be reasonably resolved with the current version of the game."

"We have been preparing for a Steam launch for a long time, but during coordination with the platform's policy requirements, we encountered an issue that cannot be reasonably resolved with the current version of the game," the Korean studios wrote in a message posted on the BrownDust 2 website (via GamesRadar). "After extensive internal discussion, we have decided not to proceed with a Steam release.

"We considered multiple options to make the release possible, but in order to preserve the game's core direction and overall quality, we came to the conclusion that making the necessary adjustments at this time would not be appropriate."

That "core direction" doesn't appear to be explicitly pornographic, but is decidedly NSFW, and the track and field theme of one trailer (also decidedly NSFW, so click with caution) suggests a possible reason that that game wouldn't fly on Steam, which does otherwise accept adult games.

Gamfs N and Neowiz didn't specify the exact nature of the issue it encountered, but speculation on the BrownDust 2 subreddit is that the presence of some very young-looking characters in the game may have tripped Valve's wire, and that does seem quite possible. While most of BrownDust 2's denizens present as fairly conventional anime characters, there are one or two—one named Refithea in particular—who are very uncomfortably young-looking.

One redditor also pointed out that another character in the game is, at least in some guises—apparently it varies depending on which skin is being used—10 years old.

Valve may be understandably touchy about having that kind of material on its storefront, especially after the recent payment processor controversy that saw Mastercard force the removal of a number of NSFW games.

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But there's a lack of consistency to it all that seems to belie the idea of a policy violation, because it's not entirely clear what the policy actually is. There are plenty of sex games on Steam featuring cartoon characters of indeterminate (but

Source: PC Gamer