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List of shadowbanned NSFW games

A topic by HH Richards created Jul 24, 2025 Views: 67,609 Replies: 167
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UPDATE: This game has been re-indexed as of August 14, 2025.
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It appears that one of the educational games published by our nonprofit program, Gaming Against Violence, is not appearing in searches now. 

Stuck in a Dark Place is a game designed to teach young people about the meaning and importance of consent: 

"This narrative-based game covers many different aspects of consent through eight chapters. [...] Stuck in a Dark Place includes discussions of non-consensual sexual activity including assaults."

 

This, and several of our other games, are played in classrooms in conjunction with the free lesson plans we have published for use by educators.

Although the game is rated "T" (ESRB) and "12+" (App Store) we added the "NSFW" label on itch.io to avoid re-traumatizing those who have previously experienced trauma. We take a trauma-informed approach to game production and provide content warnings on our games whenever applicable. Marking it as "NSFW" is just one way we strive to avoid creating harm. This is clearly not an adult game.

As with all of our games, it is also free.

link to the game: https://jag.itch.io/stuck-in-a-dark-place

We have opened a support ticket.

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It looks like itch has mass shadowbanned anything with the nsfw tag, & your game was unfortunately caught up in the crossfire. If it's not actually nsfw then maybe remove the tag? 

Thanks. We are considering that but are waiting to hear back from itch first.

(1) We are not certain if removing the tag will automatically un-shadowban the game.
(2) The tag has been helpful in preventing folks from inadvertently playing a game they would otherwise avoid. Too many people do not read warning labels. In the past, we've had a few people who did not pay attention and wound up being upset by the game. 

If itch does not fix this then we will try removing that tag next. We do believe that there are some NSFW games that are not adult games but how those labels are interpreted seem to be determined differently by each community. 

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Removing the tags was my prior solution but that doesn't seem to be working on my end anymore.  

My game "The Seam" was shadowbanned.

https://goodbyehappiness.itch.io/the-seam

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this kills mu whole company :(

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Call PayPal and voice your complaints.  Daily.  Others are doing the same.  This whole thing started because of people complaining about PayPal cooperating with Itch and Steam platforming works they didn't like.  If we call PayPal en mass and clog their phones lines on the daily, we may be able to force the decision to reverse.  All we have to do is show PayPal that they're going to be losing more money from folding to censorship than they would be if they actually respected artistic freedom.

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shadow banned:
https://wataponno.itch.io/mma
https://hellocrime.itch.io/lovelycraft
https://bohohon.itch.io/deep-vault-69
https://jasonafex.itch.io/amorous-2
https://vivthegame.itch.io/viv-the-game
https://rahimew.itch.io/bdcc
https://it-that-watches.itch.io/monster-slayer

All links pointed to the same page.

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it will destory all itch .   fXXing Collective Shout ffffffff

Hey. My stuff - all shadowbanned if I see it correctly.

Repopulator:  https://quick-and-dirty.itch.io/repopulator

Daughters of the Sea: https://quick-and-dirty.itch.io/daughters-of-the-sea

BlackJackOff: https://quick-and-dirty.itch.io/blackjackoff

Bummer too, I just recently started to learn 3D animation a little, had a cool little project in mind, but I'm not sure it's even worth making anymore.

dose anyone have the link for monmusu?

This is somewhat vague but this is best I can do with this vague request 

MonCurse by Kamoo

Monmusu Rancher by Team Fuel 

if ur talking about monster masume that manga probably isnt hosted here since that would likely need the authors permission 

and if ur talking about MONMUSU the steam game.... its on steam and i guess here's a link to that https://store.steampowered.com/app/533540/MONMUSU/

thank you

There is this one game I’m looking for, it was kinda open world date sim where you collect items for quests and energy (like food and stuff) there was also this like cat guide I think, with a anime/huniepop artstyle. If anyone knows the name of wtf I’m on about lmk.

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I think the game you are actually looking for is Naked Adventure . Sounds similar to what you decribed.  Im looking for a different game which is a mix of Summer for You/ Second base, all I remember from it is that it was: open world, had an energy bar and time cycle, hand a lot of female characters, a guide and one of the female characters secretly worked at a nightclub to pay for her daughters college or smth. If you can. Help. Or it might be this Minami's Lewd Adventures v0.1.2

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It is not the game i was looking for but still thanks. It is the same as Naked Adventure but with more content and better quality and no pink hair.

What about the other one? Minami’s Lewd adventure.

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Unfortunately I don't, currently on a hunt for this one date sim i played a few months backing, shitty censorship can't find it for shit

I find it strange that itch suddenly banned all these games. I was just downloading games last week, with over a thousand results for the tags I was looking under, now suddenly it's less than fifty for the broadest of tags. Any ideas as to why they suddenly done this? Because this is a lot of games to suddenly just be banned, unless they are implementing a new AI moderator and it is what caused this, it just doesn't make sense.

loop-io.dev looks like a competent index of nsfw itch links if your all Interested

this is what i got 

https://hotarupixie.itch.io/plant-girls

https://peons-corner.itch.io/lust-trainer

https://debasinggrounds.com/Debasing%20Grounds%20v04100.html   (Game Website Source but it is still on itcho)

OP may wanna grab all the links that work and edit the first post to act as the temporary index until ITCH can reclaim it's independence.

This is my first game on here. I was excited to try out this lovely platform, but sadly it didn't even make it to 1 month before getting delisted:

https://ajjushii.itch.io/waifu-unveil-starlight-guardians-edition

Falling Undercover: Nox Syndicate

Tags: Ntr, Corruption, Mystery, Betryal, Big Boobs, Big Dick, Bodysuit

https://azienda.itch.io/falling-undercover-nox-syndicate

there was transsexual protagonists games , if anyone have them , I would be thankful if they gave me a link to them, i only can find transprotal so far Transportal by LilySauce

Mine are   Dungeon Boy  and  The Kyrus Chronicle

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UPDATE: This game has been re-indexed as of August 14, 2025.
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(We realize our games are different than the other games on this list. But we are being impacted also. Such "unintended consequences" are one of the reasons that censorship is a slippery, tricky slope.)

A 2nd games of ours has been de-indexed: https://jag.itch.io/a-thousand-cuts-early-edition

It is not an "adult game". It is an educational narrative game about the impact that a college's Title IX process has on a survivor of a campus-related assault. It was created by the award-winning writer Elizabeth Ballou. We marked the game with a NSFW tag to highlight the content warning we added to the game. We did not want players to casually play it and then be affected by NSFW language and discussions of assaults in the game.

Also, our nonprofit org's other NSFW non-adult game is still not indexed. We opened a support ticket last week for that game but have only received an acknowledgement from itchio. 

We have been promoting itchio as our primary storefront for our group's games since 2017. We are increasingly concerned about the response to this current issue. Our org is going to have to address this soon. We are too small to take risks with one of our primary outreach channels.

Although we do not have "adult games", our games are about sensitive issues. Will our LGBTQ-friendly games be targets next? 

Is anybody receiving responses from support?

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I don’t know anyone who’s received a response from Support.

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thank you for making this list <3

i had no idea until i checked my analytics, but over half the post-shadowban traffic for my game has been coming from here! 

i bet i'm not the only dev this list has helped, so thank you for sharing the shadowbanned games, friends

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Well done, this is a great resource!

N ice. I submitted all my banned games.

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didn't trump sign an executive order that states payment processors can't control a market and if you belive in something you are legally allowed to purchase it, which makes a payment processor threatening a company illegal?

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Yes, he did. But no, this seems unlikely to change the current situation with Itchio & Payment Processors (PPs).

The Executive Order (EO) is limited in several ways, including the fact that PP are not financial institutions (FIs) but are instead servicers. However, PP could arguably decide to comply anyway if they are perceived as engaging in discriminatory behavior. But, the current situation is due to activist groups, not because of FI regulations. The EO won't change the impact of those activist groups; it seems unlikely the PPs will care.

Also, the EO only prohibits FIs from "politicized or unlawful debanking" which might appear to apply here, but the EO's focus is not the protection of NSFW content; the EO claims to protect political or religious beliefs. 

If the EO does somehow change PP willingness to process "adult" material, the EO will likely only last until the next president is elected.

Real change would probably require Congress to act. And it should be bipartisan if it is going to have a lasting impact. The other real change that is needed is to break up the duopoly of MC/Visa. It does not seem likely that any of these things will happen very soon.

All of the above will have court challenges. It might be that pushing back against the activist groups will be more effective than hoping the EO will help in this situation. 

The current situation has not been handled well by anybody. We are a nonprofit org and none of our games are adult - but two are shadowbanned.* This is because, among other things, Stripe and Itchio moved ahead so quickly with their actions that affected communities did not have a reasonable opportunity to respond. The adverse impact on groups like ours might eventually involve the legal system and that is morely likely to change this mess than the EO will.

(None of the above is legal advice but just a high-level discussion of the law and public policy. I have worked for, and with, FIs and PPs in the past. I also have a law degree. And now I run a nonprofit org that is being harmed by these actions.)

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*UPDATE: The two referenced games have been re-indexed as of Aug 14, 2025.

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Seems like my games are unlisted, it makes me sad because I'm just a solo developer being kicked around by forces I can't control.

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What's your game?

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I had a few that was getting some traction and sales before this whole payment processor mess. 

Some of my NSFW games are:

JOI Church

Cherry's JOI

Master of Throwing Ropes

Smuto

Bunny Girl Match

Smut Summoner


I'm in the process of moving some of my games and new releases to Steam because of the low viability with these new policies.

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Wow! That's Amazing! You have lots of games. If you'd ask me, I'm currently figuring out how to promote my game. Still In-development process.

I'm looking for a game here but I can't remember the name I remember the MC being able to either "break" or "awaken" certain romanceable women and there being a fairly-esk character who you could fuck either slightly bigger than a fairy or fairy sized any help would be appreciated finding it.

Corrupted Kingdoms. You can find them here: https://subscribestar.adult/arcgames

Thank you 

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I uploaded optimized copies of my game chris griffin stares at a women's butt. it was never meant to be public. but it was linked from my newgrounds account. it was removed on newgrounds because of copyright infringement. then all my games were delisted even those that weren't nsfw. my games never got much traction but there was a point in time when they were searchable. there was a problem with autoplay on all my html5 games unrelated to itch.io. the load immediately option was used when it shouldn't have been.

 my game can load on firefox if autoplay is set to allow audio and video for itch.io. I also recently made public a couple of private projects that were just basically demos for functionality of the sega genesis made by gamehut the creator of the lego star wars games and a developer at travelers tales. I had a file where I added special functionality to his example bin but I must have uploaded the wrong one. the files I uploaded as my own repository for checking things on mobile was basically just the example file he provided with his genesis compiler.


the interactive movie is here. it's mainly just a movie but you can control the character while they talk. 

https://ipodtouchhtml5b.itch.io/banned-on-io


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in back to the future they don't need roads but do they at least need runways
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the great way to explain what is the meaning of this is to get out a dictionary.

just posting so I can get notifications of new posts to this :)

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So as an update Flirting with girls in fantasy world by Hitoriku seems to have been removed entirely after being shadowbanned. Not sure if it was itch or the creator though.

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Just dropping my game here in case anyone's interested. No response from Itch, so...

https://renofrome.itch.io/love-strikes-thrice (NSFW/Lighthearted Romance Visual Novel)

It seems another game that is affected by deindexing are Didnapper 2 as well as Bonds (both are paid games) where they no longer show up on search regardless of the "Show content marked as adult in search & browse" setting.

https://didgames.itch.io/didnapper-2 (RPG Maker MV game focusing on bondage themes)

https://didgames.itch.io/bonds (Bondage themed visual novel)

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Hey all!
Just dropped the demo for my mature VN A Ninja’s Return.
Would love some feedback if anyone’s interested. Thanks so much! 🙏

There is a NSFW game I don't remeber the name of but if followed the story of a guy losing his apartment and having to move back in with his family (Mom, older sister, younger sister, younger brother) I can't seem to find it

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Hello everyone,

You might love A Ninja's Return. Dropped the new version on Discord.

PS: It's a mature themed vn.

Thank you so much!

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