The Steam pornography label is still attached to Future? No Thanks!, weeks after Molleindustria removed a mild sex scene and resubmitted the game to satisfy Valve’s review. The studio is now asking publicly for anyone at Valve who can explain what is going on, in a saga reported by GamesRadar.
The game, a Teen-rated open-world satire about the final days of a conservative man in a leftist utopia, was due out on July 22. It has instead spent roughly a month in Valve’s content review. Steam’s stated grounds were “sexual content that is explicit or graphic and is intended for adults only” and “frequent nudity or sexual content”, which the developer disputes. Valve also flagged an achievement called “Have Sex One Last Time”.
Why the Steam pornography label stuck
Molleindustria cut the scene and resubmitted the build. The pornography label stayed. The game now sits grouped with Steam’s adult titles, hidden from most users, unavailable in Germany — where such content requires age verification — and in China. At Gamescom this week, the studio says people keep asking why they cannot see the page of a Teen-rated game.
“This has been the most humiliating and surreal experience in 20+ years of game making. I’m desperately looking for anybody who knows anybody at Valve that can at least tell me what’s going on.”
Molleindustria, on Bluesky
Valve’s vague review process
Molleindustria’s Paolo Pedercini told Aftermath the process has been “extremely slow and vague”. Valve said some achievements had inappropriate names, then ignored his question about whether renaming “have sex one last time” to “find romance one last time” would help.
“You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.”
Paolo Pedercini, Molleindustria
The Italian studio, known for satirical games such as Oiligarchy and Phone Story, is considering edits but is not sure what Valve wants changed. Steam remains the biggest PC storefront by far, estimated at 200 million monthly users, which is what makes a wrong label expensive. Valve did not respond to requests for comment for either article. Steam has made exceptions to its own rules before, such as the 470-hour Battlefield 6 refund, but content labelling runs through a less public process. Molleindustria is left to wait and see whether the company changes its mind.
What is Future? No Thanks!?
It is Molleindustria’s open-world satire about the final days of a conservative man in a leftist utopia, described by its developer as “an ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times”.
Who is Molleindustria?
An Italian indie studio run by Paolo Pedercini, best known for political satire games such as Oiligarchy and Phone Story.
What does an adult-only label do to a game on Steam?
It hides the game from most users, requires age verification to view the store page, and can block it entirely in countries like Germany and China.
