Not if there's forbidden content in the patch like r*pe. Steam allow Patches outside their website only if the content is not illegal in Steam. Adult content is fine, that's why Kagura Games and other games have +18 patches, but not if the content is illegal in the Steam itself.
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Wrong, the patches wouldn't be allowed if Kagura Games or any user were to share them on Steam.
And the content of the patches are very much forbidden on Steam, from rape to shota/loli stuff.
If the patch was allowed, they would just add it on Steam as DLC. What Kagura Games are doing is a workaround to the rules.
Steam rules aren't what you should give consideration to so much. They aren't consistent with it at all and will pick and choose what to allow or ban. Even if your game 100% abides by Steam rules, they can still ban it for any vague reason if enough people complain about it. I've also seen games that got rejected by Steam later got approved just by a name change which itself contains rape while the patch provided outside is to decensor the genitalia.
Kagura Games has repeatedly stated publicly that they comply with Steam’s rules — which forbid certain extreme themes, including real-world underage sexual depictions (shota/loli).
If a game had that kind of content, Steam would not allow it in any form (even with an external patch). Publishers like Kagura typically don’t bring those titles to Steam at all — they release them only on adult storefronts like JAST, Fakku, Nutaku, or DLsite.
Kagura Games does not upload illegal content (like shota/loli) as Steam patches. Their restoration patches are meant only to re-enable legal adult content removed for Steam. If a game contains material Steam and Western law forbid, it won’t be on Steam in the first place.
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This is what I can read about this.
They can remove your game without reason at all, those are part of the rules of Steam, but it's better if I comply with the rules.
IN any case, if Kagura have patches with illegal content, then they are risking those games to be removed from Steam, especially since what happened with Collective Shout... Sadly is not allowed anymore. It sucks, but it's the reality.
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If the patch was allowed, they would just add it on Steam as DLC. What Kagura Games are doing is a workaround to the rules.
No, not as a DLC/patch distributed through Steam itself.
Valve’s policy is that all content on Steam must comply with their rules. If you upload a patch as DLC on Steam, then the entire product is judged by the adult content inside the DLC.
That means if the DLC restores sexual content, the base game listing must be flagged as “Adult Only”, and the player must have adult filters enabled to even see it in the store.
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That's what I was able to read about this, sorry.
That's all talk to say they're abiding by the rules. In reality, that is far from the truth if you actually play the games that are there. To begin with, 18+ or decensor patches already go against Steam's rules, as they bypass Steam's Mature Content Preferences, so it doesn't even matter even if the patch contents abide by the steam rules. They're still not allowed on Steam yet Kagura Games and other h-game devs have been doing it since ages with such workaround. I've played many games including ones published by Kagura Games which focuses on straight shotacon sexual content and some loli sexual content too, including other contents that technically would go against Steam rules. Not a single one of those games have ever gotten removed, so this is just more of a nonsense to control the freedom of artistic expression. It only has a real risk when Karens start complaining about it. Just take a look at the workshop of Wallpaper Engine on Steam and you'll easily find countless amount of "illegal" content aka. content that Steam says they won't allow it on their platform. This game is a lot tamer compared to the hentai games I've played on Steam, so it is just surprising to me you're this afraid of releasing a simple patch outside of Steam. I'd suggest simply dropping the patch at F95 if you really want to be this cautious with your official channels.
I also still remember from my playthough in the past, that one scene in this game where Neus doesn't wear panties under her skirt and while going up the stairs, she flashes a kid. xD
I vaguely recall it was somewhere around when you meet Neus' mature busty version, it was her mom or something.