steam games recharge Anybody who games on Windows PC Mac or Linux should already be familiar with Steam. For those who are looking to break into PC gaming Steam is the way to go. Steam is a massive platform for gamers to play games form groups and communities chat with friends and of course buy games. Steam lets you download games directly to your PC – no need for the disc or a trip to the store.

And with the Steam Black Friday Sale currently on until 6PM (GMT) on 28 November there’s no better time to buy. For those looking to buy games as gifts Steam also has the option to send download links via email or through the platform itself.

This is a marked change from what Valve allowed previously for makers of sexually explicit games. For example Winter Wolves creator of 2015’s Loren the Amazon Princess pinned its post to the top of its community discussion board offering a workaround to add back in "suggestive content.” (The standard game isn’t age-gated however unlike most of the titles referenced.)

In July the developer of Twins of the Pasture pinned a patch for its game that would add back in more risqué assets not in the official Steam version. Those download links were posted by a user of the game however — and users will continue to have to rely on each other for adding more sexual content into these visual novels and other titles.

A Steam curator group called Cut-Content Police collects all kinds of games that have scenes or assets removed from their Steam releases including mainstream titles like Resident Evil 7 biohazard Call of Duty: World War II and Watch Dogs 2. The content removed from each game is noted as is the availability of a patch; a link is included when applicable.

Still for some fans of sex-oriented visual novels restricting official patch links is a step backward. Although Valve has required content to be cut from certain adult games many times in the past the reasons why remain murky even inconsistent; the company doesn’t have an outright policy regarding how it handles games with explicit sexual themes or images. (For example: 2016 queer romance Ladykiller in a Bind cheap steam games recharge for example wasn’t allowed onto the platform until several months after its release; its developer said that Valve didn’t require edits when it did eventually approve the game for sale.) And now that developers can’t openly share patches to return their games to their uncensored state through Steam it’s only complicating the adult game situation on the platform.

The closest Valve has come to addressing the state of adult games was during an Ask Me Anything session with Gabe Newell company president earlier this year.

"Would you ever consider allowing uncensored video games containing pornographic content to be sold on Steam?” a Redditor asked receiving numerous upvotes. "Also where do you draw the line for content on Steam? ... I ask this as I'm getting tired of porn games getting releases on Steam censored without any content patch to put the content that the original developers of the game intended back into the game.”

"In principle there are two problems to solve,” Newell replied. "The first is a completely uncurated distribution tool for developers. The second is a toolset for customers that allow them to find and filter content (and people are an instance of content most obviously in multiplayer) that is best for them.”

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