A Message from an Adult Game Developer


⚠️ A Message from an Adult Game Developer: What’s Happening Is Not Okay

Yesterday, I woke up with a strange feeling — like something was off.
Then I opened Discord and saw the admin's announcement on the itch.io server. At that moment, I knew something major was about to change.

By now, many of you have probably read the news: NSFW content is being removed from the itch.io index.
Entire games, projects, and even asset packs have vanished.
Some developers are reporting that their payments are being withheld.

Itch.io says they’re complying with pressure from payment processors.
And those processors? They’ve been under intense lobbying by Collective Shout, an ultra-conservative Christian activist group from Australia.
Claiming to fight child abuse and illegal sexual content, they’ve pushed for the broad removal of NSFW content across multiple platforms.

Let me be clear: protecting minors is important. We all agree on that.
But this is not the way.
This is an assault on freedom of expression and artistic integrity.
What’s next? LGBTQ+ stories? Dark horror games?

As an adult game developer, I’m watching my work — my time, my hope, my future — being destroyed. And I’m not alone. This affects a large part of our community.

But I won’t stop.
I won’t be censored.
We may be a small niche compared to mainstream game devs, but we’re fierce, creative, and resilient.
We won’t give up our freedom to create.

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Поддерживаю автора и тех кто делает NSFW контент.

А всем ультра консерфаторам: возьмите верёвку себя обвяжите пж. А я пойду включу Шредер. Чтобы продать ультра консиративный фарш.

Я например не способна делать игры по причине слероза (потеря памяти) но даже я знаю что игры должны существовать.

Все зависит от человека если человек гниль то и без игр будет "PDF-File"

Так что пусть он бдфайлит на пиксили чем в реальности.

Спасибо огроменное за твоё сообщение 💖 Оно прям бустит меня дальше топить. Погнали вместе намутим фарш из этих ультракондов 😈 А потом пельмешки ими нафаршим 😂

Fellow NSFW gamedev here.

I am not giving up. Still making the lewds. It felt for a little while that we were in a bit of a golden age for NSFW games until all of this. But They will never kill our genre completely. I am seeing a lot of public support on our side, and not just from gooners.

It's tough, and it hurts to be going through it, but we won't go down that easily. Keep on creating! The war is not over yet!

Dear fellow developer,

I completely understand your feelings and frustration, and I can't agree with you more. My team and I left well-paid jobs to follow our ambitions and create the game we truly wanted to make. We’ve worked 24/7 for over two years, pouring everything we had into this project.

Now, just when we’re finally close to releasing a playable demo—our Steam and Itch pages ready, everything prepared to show the world that we exist in this market—we're being told we should be afraid. Afraid of being censored, just because someone, somewhere, is uncomfortable with their own sexuality and decides to take it out on indie developers like us.

But listen—don’t give up. This is no longer just about launching a game. This is a fight for creative freedom, for the right to tell the stories we believe in. We cannot destroy everything we’ve built just because someone doesn’t like it. If we back down now, we send a message that fear wins over vision. And that’s not who we are.

Stand your ground. Keep creating. The world needs bold voices—and yours is one of them.

I agree, but its very dishearten, i almost fully pushed back my depression and now after all of this i can feel it coming back 4months on my project was planning to post my first testing version next month and this happens i was getting all hyped and happy and now stuff just crashes due to some Karen's in AUS and people bending knees and giving them the power they wanted. never played your game but i saw it pop in the dev log feed looks fun hope we can all get out of this ok. 

Thank you so much for the kind comment. I feel the same way. Game development helps me forget my worries and fight my depression