Valve has updated Steam so you can better filter out games that contain “controversial content”. It’s part of the company’s ongoing response to complaints around some of the games Steam sells.
Back in June, Valve backed away from policing the games it sold via Steam in favour of “allow[ing] everything onto the Steam Store”, unless deemed illegal or “straight up trolling”. That decision came following the outcry around Active Shooter, a game which let you shoot kids in a school. The game was eventually removed from Steam after public outcry – but only on the grounds it was made by a “troll” developer.
“We did our best to ensure you can safely ignore swaths of games in the store, but still find them if you look directly via the search tool,” Valve wrote in a new blog post.
Source: Eurogamer Steam adds more options so you can hide "controversial" games