Dungeon Travelers 2 Steam Release Apparently Blocked by Valve

It appears like a possible Dungeon Vacationers 2 Steam launch has been banned by Valve. Whereas no official announcement was made, a SteamDB itemizing means that the sport may need been rejected from the platform, though we do not fully know why.

What do we all know concerning the Dungeon Vacationers 2 Steam ban?

Generally, Valve will deny approval to a recreation seeking to be listed on Steam. It occurred to Richard La Ruina’s infamous Super Seducer 3 owing to what Valve perceived as objectionable content material in that recreation, in addition to older indie titles like You Must Be 18 Or Older To Enter. Though we do not have definitive proof, it appears like one thing related may need occurred to Dungeon Vacationers 2, a PlayStation Vita dungeon crawler from 2015. If a SteamDB listing is to be believed, it appears like the sport was listed for inclusion on Steam, then rejected by Valve.

The itemizing was initially noticed by Redditor bad_spot, who explains that when a recreation has a number of artwork property listed within the SteamDB backend however no retailer web page or group web page, that often signifies it has been banned or rejected. SteamDB solely reveals knowledge that is in Valve’s personal Steam backend, so there is no purpose listed for the sport’s rejection from Steam. Nevertheless, given the historical past of Dungeon Vacationers 2, we will make just a few educated guesses in that division.

Why was Dungeon Vacationers 2 rejected from Steam?

Again in 2015, when Dungeon Vacationers 2 initially launched, Western writer Atlus confirmed that the sport would have four of its images censored. These pictures embrace sexually suggestive materials and art work that skews dangerously near depicting underage ladies. The sport’s Western launch contained cleaned-up variations of those pictures (albeit nonetheless slightly suggestive ones), so Dungeon Vacationers 2 is a recreation that’s not unfamiliar with censorship.

A few potentialities spring to thoughts right here. Both the publishers submitted the uncensored model of Dungeon Vacationers 2 to Valve, which spooked them, thus ensuing within the Steam rejection. Alternatively, the publishers submitted the censored model, which nonetheless spooked Valve as a result of it nonetheless incorporates plenty of very sexually suggestive materials, notably of characters who seem like younger. There’s loads of hentai shovelware on Steam, after all (in addition to loads of regular ol’ shovelware), however Dungeon Vacationers 2 is a extra high-profile launch, so it is potential it was subjected to extra scrutiny than your common 99-cent match-three puzzler. We have reached out to each Valve and Dungeon Vacationers 2 writer Aquaplus for touch upon this story and can deliver you extra as quickly as we get it.