Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

“Encouraging” is kinda a nonsense way to put it. But yeah good.

> The game launched on Steam last month and is described by its own developers as containing violence, incest, blackmail, and what they describe as “unavoidable non-consensual sex.”

Should probably put anyone who bought the rape simulator on some kind of watch list as well.

Oh, this is the same one New Zealand and Australia removed as well.

I wouldn’t really say LBC did this. But maybe it was the media coverage that got it through.

That being said watching a bunch of neckbeards defend a game where you rape your mother as “free speech” is incredible. Like Christ alive content policies have existed for decades it’s not some new thing – plus games like this have plenty of places to exist there’s literally dozens of adult game services where they could host the game to be purchased.

Had the same story been presented without the visuals and released in an ebook format it probably would’ve done quite well with parts of the booktok community.

Surely, this is why we have ratings. There’s plenty of questionable scenes in films, they just get an appropriate rating. The problem with this is that it’s a slippery slope and a few people objecting can ban pretty much everything.

Yikes as much as I want to defend not banning games, wtf Jesus Christ 😧

Still this seems like free advertising, it’s like when manhunt was banned, it just meant it cost a few quid more on the market 😆

Tbh tho manhunt was a cracking game.

There are loads of games like this, why is it this one gets the media coverage and not the others?

I get that it’s shocking and poor taste, but are we really going to pretend that swathes of young women don’t commonly read books that are far FAR worse?

Is the difference in response that it’s visual, If so what makes it different compared to things like Game of Thrones?

I mean porn itself is legal in the UK/Canada/Australia, frequently featuring implications of same if not far worse treatment of actual women.

If we’re going to tackle misogynistic content sanitise every form of entertainment across the board, as well as the misandrist shite or quit with the false equivalency.

Mortal Kombat didn’t make men rip women’s heads and spines out, GTA didn’t make people kill prostitutes, Silent hill didn’t make men kill their wives.

Mental ill health and ostracising people based on gender will have and has always had a far more negative input.

This game would probably have gone relatively unknown because it seems like utter shite, but thanks to the amplification of it, it’ll no doubt gain some sort of cult following.

Why are y’all so shocked? Incest is legal with first cousins in England. lol. #royalfamily

De Sade’s [120 Days of Sodom](https://16beavergroup.org/pdf/120_days_of_sodom.pdf) is almost certainly worse than this. No-one seems to want to ban that. Censoring this video game is shameful pandering to terrible people.

It’s an interactive game and abhorrent.

I work directly in gaming specifically PC gaming so do not believe that GTA makes you want to throw prostitutes off bridges.

I’m also pretty old fashioned in my views so there’s no danger of me ever being described as woke. Point I’m trying to make is that I’m not really prone to reacting to stuff like violence in games

This game is however one that needs removed. It makes violence against women into a fun activity plays directly into the woman hating narrative sub culture that’s on the internet and dangerous too.

Anyone that has this installed on their pc needs their hard drive checked imho

On one hand, I totally get it that game seems like utter rubbish.

On the other hand I’m concerned with how pro-censorship a lot of people are.

Let’s not pretend this is the only rape simulator on Steam. There are a whole bunch of them, ranging through incest, to animal porn, to “virtual ~~slaves~~ girlfriends”, etc. At some point, publishers are going to clout Steam about this stuff. It’s inevitable. They just don’t care. Their community section is an unhinged mess, as well.

This isn’t me defending No Mercy’s right to exist as a game, but I don’t see why it’s getting a disproportionate amount of press coverage and controversy.

Steam’s Adult Only section is ***full*** of similarly problematic games, mainly platformers or ARPGs featuring a lot of explicit game over scenes where enemies force themselves upon you, to put it lightly. Just one cursory glance at that section showed me games like Slaves of Rome and Family Breeding – take a wild guess as to what themes they explore…

“encouraging” or “containing”?

Lets be honest the old testament has some pretty spicy concepts in it.

Don’t tell these people that there are those with these fantasies who exist in this world and consume such material daily. Men and women.

Also, this is a hentai game, there are so many like it out there.

By their logic, any depiction of such things would be banned. So about 80% of all things in all media?