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adult and erotic tags games gone?

A topic by Shinnx21 created Jul 24, 2025 Views: 88,103 Replies: 316
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For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.

And what happens when the payment processors once again change what’s ‘allowable’ on a whim? Are there plans to implement support for creators to accept payments via less restrictive processors? Generally I feel like cryptocurrency - “stable” or otherwise - is a cancerous mess, but even that’s gotta be better than the rules changing whenever someone fires off a few strongly-worded emails.

It definitely is better! And don't worry, a few bills just passed that make stablecoins pegged to the dollar much more regulated and safe! Spread positivity on it, it's much better now!

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We need fight hard for ourselves

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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

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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?

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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.

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This is absurd man, some of my games are also taken down. Just sad that people own nothing.

I know man. I just got back and see one of your games are gone. Fucked up...

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.

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Major issue. Itch will suffer terribly from this, given its a pro-indie marketplace for creative, experimental works. This sudden intrusion, especially done so without warning and having bought games be pulled (afaik) and having creators' lifelines be denied like this is against that status and reliablity mentioned.  I know there isn't much the workers of Itch can do, but them possibly being puppeteered (i think so) like this is rather painful. Itch is an important resort for games, especially regarding the current state of AAA games, enshittification, and corporate-mentality applied in gaming today. Not that this will help with the motive behind here, f95 and dlsite are more specified for adult games with the former being a sharing/piracy focused forum- F95 turning into a more reliant platform and an archive is rather tragicomic, but it makes sense under these conditions... If itch fails its artists, then what will the site do? This site is the collective of all users here, any adversarial act done against will be... rather crappy tbh 

tl;dr: Itch is shooting themselves in the foot, most likely forced so 
 More accessible yet fragmented forums and sites invalidate the motives 
Artists and customers are getting hurt, which itch not just depends on but IS, as an indie platform 
This is against itch's philosophy and use case, which will scar the site 
Anti-consumerism is shite- itch was the chosen one, they were meant to destroy it not join it 

the power of horny is not to be underestimated 

-Nanachi 

 
 
 

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"tl;dr: Itch is shooting themselves in the foot, most likely forced so "

To put it a little more explicitly, the payment processors were holding a gun to their head and ordering them to shoot themselves in the foot if they want to continue living.

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I get you're angry and probably kidding, but please refrain from language like that in the future.

this gonna kill itch slowly im telling you

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itch would have died in one shot possibly if they didn't "bend the knee". They can't fight off Visa and Mastercard in court, and need the support of those payment processors to maintain servers.

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

This cunt collective shout manage to to this? We should take them down in literal, they see a nsfw games as objectifying?  This is Absurd

Isn't it enough that we have no free will? And now we couldn't buy adultery stuff? You should add crypto currency itch.io, so this shit ain't happen again

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TAKE DOWN COLLECTIVE SHOUT!!! 

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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 

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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.

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Creator said, "Time to kill the site. I've had my fun."

the thing is... we don't know the full extent of the situation. Steam also got hit with these threats apparently, and they COULD do more than just delist those games they had already did in that big batch.

any alternative sites

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they removed or shadow banned. what a disgusting action

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

itch.io is now disgusting

It doesn't sound like it's at all their fault partner, give em some slack

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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.

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Everyone, PLEASE keep in mind that Itch is CURRENTLY looking for other options and Payment Processors who are more comfortable with Adult Content! They are not and HAVE not abandoned their creators! Like Steam, Itch was bullied and thrust into a position where higher powers forced these policies ON them under threat of total shutdown via Payment pullout. Itch IS looking for other avenues to support it's creators! In the meantime, keep calling your Gov Representatives and DO not let up! We CAN'T let people decide what we the people can and cannot purchase or enjoy!

Thanks for the update. Any idea what they might be going with?

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At the moment, no, not yet. BUT a decent chunk of NSFW games have been flooding back into the site! The adult tag just regained 5000+ Games, so that is a VERY big sign that Itch is doing what they can to restore order while navigating the threats from Payment companies. 

As it currently stands, there MAY new new payment processors coming up to take Visa and Mastercards place, OR, they're folding and allowing Itch to restore their catalog of Games because of all the pressure we've been putting Visa/Mastercard over. So while I can't say what kind of payment options may be coming, it's a VERY good sign that we're seeing thousands of games come back, and a strong reminder that Itch is fighting FOR us, and not against us!

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With the way itchio has handled this and even before it, I would recommend that gamers find an alternative to this damn place.  Games are still getting de-indexed, taken down, not restored, etc.

I recommend game devs to make use of the Fediverse, there are numerous Free and Open-Source alternatives out there that are made in mind to give you security, privacy and the means to fight censorship. As for donation platforms, there are others out there, such as Subscribe Star which should be used instead of Patreon.

link below for examples:

https://itsfoss.com/mainstream-social-media-alternaives/ 

Where on the fediverse are browser-based games and game downloads welcome?

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