https://chng.it/CSxTPdBG4S Sign to prevent censorship from increasing.

Hello all,

In my opinion, any standard petitions today are pointless.

Instead, we need to follow the example of campaigns like "Stop Killing Games," which effectively targeted developers. We need to approach Mastercard and Visa in the same way.

We need a citizens' initiative that covers a broad area, like the EU, and that has real legal force. We need to clearly and loudly demonstrate that corporations are already violating EU antitrust laws, and draw the attention of those in positions of authority to this. It's not a matter of potential threats—it's already happening.

Fines of up to 10% of global turnover are possible—a scale that can appeal to any corporation. This is a much stronger means of pressure than any "collective shout."

Feminists from Australia—they didn't attack content creators themselves, but targeted the money that flows from this content. It was an effective strategy. And we must do the same – hit the revenues of payment processing companies, because only then do we have a real chance to oppose what is currently happening.

Seems visa and mastercard are putting in their ass like they did with steam.

This happening at the same tame as US gov's are "investigating" Brazil's main payment method (Pix) says a lot....


those bills that are being discussed may be republicans project, but that is not guarantee that trump's administration don't have a hand in this...
other thing that may be involved is the Epestein files debacle

COWARDSSSSSSS ITCHIO IS RUN BY A BUNCH OF COWARDSSSSS BOOOOOOOOOOO

So much money do we need to become our own payment processor?

I hate the fact most of the people who made money from making indie games on sites like this won't get paid. I never played NSFW games so much, but it irks me a group that defends Cuties can have such an effect. Here's a petition I found for people that want change. Petition

Collective Shout, while obviously a bigoted biased nuisance, have no real power in themselves and there have always been groups like them as long as NSFW existed. They are just finding some success in pestering the payment processors. But something tells me they are lying to said payment processors regarding the content hosted at places and saying it's illegal stuff or something. After all, why is it that numerous other places known for hosting NSFW content for decades are not having their payment options threatened while places like Steam and Itch are? Another part of the problem is that there's not really a way around said payment processors: https://www.naka.com/blog/payments-duopoly-global-battle  If there were, it would be easy for Itch or anyone else being threatened to simply set up another way for people to spend. So there are multiple deeper issues going on here that need to be solved. Hopefully sooner than later because undoubtedly this will not be the end of places being hassled over the content they host.

I really like this change. For the first time ever, searching for a game on itch.io/games does not result in 99% trash.

burning of Alexandria but in vidoe games  all cus  sum  Australia femii nazi and make you think  they Australias lose their balls  in 1996 after they where disarmed

We need fight hard for ourselves

so with your delisting on adult games i dare say your library index is way worse than steams, i guess you really promote pirating at this point

They should change this info :D "itch.io is an open marketplace for independent game creators. We are completly dependent on our masterscard gods and will force any policy they ask us to. It's completely free to upload your content but we can always delete it without warning if visa gods ask us to. Read more about polices we are force to respect and remember they can change without any notice." something like that.

Are there any alternative websites to itch.io?

The easy solution? Move to Bitcoin. Let Mastercard know: "It’s not us, it’s your policy." Why should a payment processor act as judge, jury, and content censor? Gabe Newell and Valve, once champions of open digital creativity, now seem like digital overlords bowing to corporate pressure instead of standing with creators.

Let’s not kid ourselves — illegal content is a serious issue, and Newell has acknowledged that. But when platforms like Steam abdicate responsibility and let Mastercard dictate what stays or goes, they’re not solving the problem — they’re pushing it into the shadows. That’s not protection; it’s deflection.

Marketplaces must step up with strong, transparent frameworks to handle ethically grey content — not sanitize everything under fear. Creators deserve clarity, not a culture of knee-jerk bans to appease external interests.

Let’s be honest: every time Valve bends the knee, the ripple hits smaller platforms like itch.io, and guess who loves that? Politicians. Both sides of the aisle feast on easy headlines. They don’t get the culture, but they sure love to regulate it.

Regulation should come from the market itself — the developers, players, and communities that actually live in these spaces. If we keep the doors open to those who don’t get it, we’re inviting more rules that crush innovation and drive real creators out — while leaving room for actual bad actors to sneak in.

We need marketplaces built on innovation and trust, not fear and corporate appeasement.

أعتقد أنه لا يجب فعل أي شيء، فهناك شروط جديدة لظهور محتوى غير مناسب للعمل على الصفحة، شروط صارمة، ولا توجد شروط للمحتوى المنشور كما اعتدنا على itch.io، لأنه كان يُستخدم للنشر، ونحن معتادون على وجود قراصنة، ولم يُصدر أي تحذير أو حتى ملاحظة أو رأي. لذلك أقول إنه يجب أن يبقى itch.io كما هو، كما اعتدنا عليه، حتى لا يكون هناك أي محتوى غير لائق، لأن هناك العديد من المبدعين على هذه المنصة.

Reasons why they censor erotic video games on itch.io, it's in Spanish but you can translate it into English from the blog itself

https://videojuegosenlineaasaco4.blogspot.com/2025/07/censuran-plataformas-de-alojo-de.html

Reasons why they censor erotic video games on itch.io, it's in Spanish but you can translate it into English from the blog itself

Here’s a short versions for those who just came by and have no idea what’s going on :

• Itch.io’s blog post about this
• An association called collective shout gave an open letter to payment processors (Visa, Mastercard & Paypal) to stop operating for products that include rape, incest and child abuse
• The payment providers then forced itch.io to comply with this, otherwise they wouldn’t offer payment processing for all of itch.io
• Itch.io needs payments to keep their server running, so they had to quickly comply by de-indexing all games tagged as “Adult”, “Nsfw”, “Lgbt” and some other tags
• De-indexed means you can’t find it when searching, but if you know a game’s name you might still be able to find its itch page on Google. You also keep it in your library if you bught it before, thankfully.
• As collateral damage, many games that are legal but still tagged as adult because they can treat about serious subjects (Bullying, medical conditions, or even sexuality without having scenes of rape and incest etc) got de-indexed as well.

This sucks, but here are some things you can do.

I’m hoping this is just a temporary solution before some solution is founs, because a payment provider having a say on which content on a third party platform is sold is, I think, not the greatest of ideas at all. If you want something and can pay for it then you should be able to get it. If it’s illegal then it’s itch.io’s role to ban it (which they already did for the game looked at by Collective shout), not the payments provider to remove an entire section of a website with thousands of games and creators getting income from it.

Made an account just to say something 

https://mopoga.com/

Is still up it's typically crappy phone style games with a few good ones sprinkled in hopefully the peoples word is stronger than MasterCard and that stupid shout group 

A website to which I go to search for indie adult games has banned such games and refuses to payout creators if they simply dont want to... Sorry but nah, if whatever this thing is wont get reversed with a massive apology to everyone and financial compensation to affected creators, itch.io is as good as dead... To put it simply, the website name says it all... Like there are tons and tons of websites with SFW indie games and such... And hence that is why people went here cuz the name says it all, and yet again American laws strike back on people...

Whenever Cyberpunk came out I though that rioting on corporations is going to be very far in the future but it seems that I was wrong and we are already at that point where people just start storming and rioting onto some corp HQ's to just take revenge on them... Internet freedom does not exist anymore and you cant even make a model (doesnt matter that it has no private parts) and if you say that clothing is not included, you are banned for nudity and sexual content... And that applies to websites that in the past had loads and loads of adult related content, got popular and then they did a mass content nuke to get rid of it...

So this american standard where you need a fat female with massive chest to be considered "adult" then this americanized standard is just crazy... Go to Asia or northern EU or even Russia and you will see females that are short, tall, flat, small and are most likely also older than you and more mature than your immature fat american massive booba females... And keep in mind that I have nothing against the way females look and I couldnt care less about it, all I am stating are facts of what is a standard in america and what is a standard in the rest of the world...

So, if American corps want full censorship, keep in mind that your citizens are armed, have access to weapons and ammo and to some degree also explosives, you have private entities that own tanks and tank ammunition that is hot and ready to be loaded and alot of people that WILL use this to get rid of coprs that try to rule the whole world... Not so much EU and other countries but if Japan continues to do what they do, VPN companies will start making loads of money, PayPal and other portals that are not real banks will hop on the train and also make a bank and what is essentially going to happen is that your whole nation is going to hate you, you will become more hated than North Korean government and you know the rest... Modern civil war basically...

Corps really need to wake up... Whenever you see a female with flat chest, if you are one of those people that think there is something else behind it then sorry but a real person sees a female, if you see something else that tilts towards being illegal, then you need a therapy and you are the one with a problem...

So to make my point. This is the end of a long peaceful era and people will go and riot... Amazon ruining anime games such as Blue Protocol was the start of this and now other american corps continue doing the same stuff... So Good luck and I hope you corpos are going to wake up really soon from this stuck up censorship of other peoples work otherwise people will riot... I couldnt really care less since I get most of my stuff on dlsite but corpos really need to be shown that they are just a company with no power... And internet needs to be freed from their greed and rules again...

ps: to the guy above me with the visa/mastercard comment... its all false since I use my visa on dlsite which is japanese and I have no issues buying indie adult games what so ever...

Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play https://chng.it/b2pMbsLvdg

Mastercard: Sex work is work. End your unjust policy https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

UK: The scope of the Online Safety act is far broader & restrictive than is necessary in a free society. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Also for USA citizens it is important to contact Congress.

any alternative sites

666被资本做局了

they removed or shadow banned. what a disgusting action

I only found out about it recently, and it’s very disappointing behavior.

Your puritanical policy change to cater to a payment processor (not a regulatory body!!) has destroyed the livelihood of one of my best friends. He stands to lose his home as he's disabled and only develops indie games to cater to a very niche audience that contain optional NSFW content. I will never be purchasing another game bundle from your website, not even for charity. You have lost my trust and my patronage forever.