Valve will not be selling Super Seducer 3 on Steam.
The company has now kicked off the Super Seducer 3 Steam page, which has garnered nearly 62,000 wishlists, from its platform.
Super Seducer 3 is an FMV game where you use multiple choice methods to win dates with women.
Developer Richard La Ruina tweeted the news along with a screenshot of Valve’s explanation.
Steam banned Super Seducer 3 and removed it from the store. They will not allow it to be released in any form.
Our page is gone and 61,700 wish lists are gone.
Before this time, they told me that I should expect approval or feedback.
We have repeatedly said that we will do what they need pic.twitter.com/hVuDcvzL2n– Richard La Ruina (@RichardGambler) 20 March 2021
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According to the message, Valve explained: “Steam does not send sexually explicit images of real people.”
It appears that La Ruina was back and forth with Valve before this final decision and changed the game in some respects according to the advice of a lawyer in an attempt to secure its release.
In another picture showing his reaction to Valve, La Ruina offered to pull all the uncensored “feedback” snippets out of the game and say, ‘Give us another chance.’
But it looks like Valve will not give way. The company replied: “We are not going to sell the game or review it again.”
The first Super Seducer game, which appeared in 2018, and its sequel remains on Steam.
Super Seducer 3’s intended release date was February 15, but it was delayed while Valve reviewed the product.
A demo for the game was released last month as part of the first Steam Game Festival of 2021, but it was only an hour long before it was pulled offline. According to La Ruina, Steam advised him that he would consider releasing it if he resubmitted a censored version of the game. Clearly it did not work.
This is not the first time that Super Seducer 3 release has been denied. According to a February tweet of La Ruina, Epic and GOG ‘said no’. In 2018, the PlayStation version pulled into the first game.