Russian censors target Visual Novel titles on Steam

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✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨ (@ebihimes): "In exciting news, a bunch of my yuri vns have been banned in Russia on Steam b/c the Russian government hates gay people, & Steam sent me this lovely message telling me this is my fault & I should have done my due diligence by pre-emptively complying with homophobic laws 🙏" | XCancel

✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨@ebihimes

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In exciting news, a bunch of my yuri vns have been banned in Russia on Steam b/c the Russian government hates gay people, & Steam sent me this lovely message telling me this is my fault & I should have done my due diligence by pre-emptively complying with homophobic laws 🙏

May 26, 2026 · 7:59 PM UTC

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✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨@ebihimes

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I wonder if Steam will add a 'does this game have lgbt characters/themes' checkbox to its mature content survey in the future, and if games will be banned in Russia pre-emptively if devs click that box.

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People glaze steam all the time while ignoring that shit like this still happens. You shouldn't have to look up which countries might be homophobic enough to go after yuri vn on steam. That shouldn't fall on you as a creator.

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✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨@ebihimes

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I love the implication that devs ought to know every single law in every country their games will be available in on Steam and if they don't they've broken Steam's TOS, it's so developer friendly lol

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Nishii@pinknishii

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oh the way this is worded is sooooo crummy omg. i get it's one of those copy and paste messages more or less, but my god is it tone deaf as hell lol

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✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨@ebihimes

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It's a copy and paste, one of my more more explicit yuri vns was banned in Russia on Steam a few months ago and I received the exact same msg 😔

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Надорский моль@SumassedsijS

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As your fan from Russia (been here since Lynne), that’s devastating news. Is it possible to download your games via itch.io still?

I hate this bloody censorship so much and wish you all the best

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✨🦐 ebi 🦐✨@ebihimes

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Yes it should still be possible to dl my vns on itchio 🙏

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Remi the Dreamfox 🌙 Vtuber

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I think in response we should air drop yuri and yaoi directly into Moscow

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Im crying because rituals in the dark is like the most subtle thing ever adfafds

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I'm a Cat~@MartinxSk

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Theoretically, I could be jailed for leaving a positive review, because you can't say anything positive about these topics in Russia

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