I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

That being said this derives from stripe threatening Valve in the near past (which is why their previous games didn't face this scrutiny). This is a known thing that any game developer, especially one developing mature content, should know. And the content in that game is definitely mature, if the screenshots of the game were shared without context I would think it's one of those sex simulators, which I get this is not and those are just small parts of the bigger picture of the game, but that's just like saying "this chocolate bar shouldn't need to be classified as containing peanuts, it only has 1 peanut".

Stupid question - since I have adult mode turned on in Steam, I get weird hentai games like "Slut Goblin" and "Big Tiddy Blackjack".

I'm guessing the games they're promoting are not adult games, but include sex, which is what's causing a issue? They want their game to not be behind that setting?

Is it possible to create a Adult mod or "Directors Mod" to bypass it? Something that a player can choose to get it if they want the more explicit scenes?

Meanwhile, there are "all-ages" anime visual-novel games on steam with official patches hosted by the developers off-site which turn them into full-on pornos - which is the version of the game they are actually trying to sell and what people are buying it for.

And not a peep from Valve on that because it's off-site.

Must be very frustrating to developers of mainline games that by being honest and engaging with valve openly, they face far more hassle than groups who designed their game specifically to circumvent the rules.

It’s shocking that a commercial game developer didn’t consider this possibility at all. The article’s complaints about capitalism and the identity of the artist feel more like trapped in a box instead of thinking.

They should've sold the game on JAST or DLSite. They find sexual content to be perfectly satisfactory.