Contrary to other occasions, Valve has revoked the ban…
Video games that arrive on Steam have always had certain difficulties in reaching a larger audience and standing out, however Getting out of Valve’s ban is difficult, this is the case with the politically incorrect video game Chaos; Head Noah. This visual novel was banned by Valve, who assures that “all this was a mistake” and even offered an apology to the development team for what happened, because despite the theme and violence that the title may present, it does not represent a reason real for your ban.
Valve’s statement to Spike Chunsoft, the team behind this game, was also shared, confirming that the content review team “reexamined” Chaos;Head Noah and “decided to reverse course.” Furthermore, Valve says that it “examined the process that led to the above decision”… “and made some changes to avoid situations like this in the future.” He is terribly ambiguous about the situation and leans more towards partner relationships than content reviewa fairly typical mistake for such a giant and gargantuan company, but the end result is that Chaos;Head Noah will be available on Steam as previously planned.
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Valve has changed course regarding an effective ban against video game studio Spike Chunsoft and MAGES’ visual novel Chaos;Head Noah, and is once again planning to release the game on Steam. Spike Chunsoft confirmed the news on social media, even providing a statement from Valve in which the company acknowledged their mistake and is making sure similar mistakes don’t happen in the future for other similar titles. However, the reasons for Chaos;Head Noah’s effective ban on Steam remain a mystery..
Last week Spike Chunsoft announced to his fans that Chaos;Head Noah would not be releasing on Steam as previously announced. Spike Chunsoft explained that Valve told the publisher that there were certain issues with the game that needed to be changed before it would be allowed on the PC gaming platform. Spike Chunsoft said it would not make the requested changes, meaning Chaos;Head Noah would not release on Steam., these changes could have affected the final game. The plan was to find a different way to cast Chaos;Head Noah in its intended form. That changed on Thursday when Spike Chunsoft announced that Valve had changed its mind. Chaos;Head Noah from MAGES will launch on Steam as originally planned on October 7 with no changes. Spike Chunsoft went on to say that he believes Valve’s decision was due to fans’ “unwavering support” for the Science Adventure series and those eager to play the game that is currently available on Nintendo Switch and Valve’s platform.
What is Chaos; Head Noah, this controversial Steam video game?
The whole situation was a huge surprise, not just for Spike Chunsoft, but for fans of visual novels and Steam in general. Valve is historically very lenient when it comes to the type of content that is published on Steam. It has red flag themes, such as child sexualization, which has led to the banning or censoring of various anime and visual novel games in the past. Chaos;Head Noah, in particular, features very mature content that touches on these issues contextually. That could be why Valve banned him as he was.
Chaos;Head Noah is just one game in a long series of popular visual novels from an esteemed developer, featuring MAGES and Spike Chunsoft with dozens of other titles available on Steam.. The game is set in 2009 in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, where Takumi lives in a cargo box on top of an apartment building. The story surrounds the recent “New Generation Madness” serial murder case in Shibuya with his friend Grim via the Internet, when someone with the username “Shogun” sends Takumi image files showing a man nailed to a wall with stakes. Later, Takumi sees a girl he doesn’t recognize committing the murder portrayed in the footage files and flees the scene of the crime. A few days later, she sits next to him at school. He thinks she will kill him, but is told that they have supposedly been friends for a year and her name is Rimi Sakihata.
Convinced that the Shogun is targeting him, Takumi tries to avoid getting involved in the murder case, which draws the attention of the police. As he becomes a suspect and more murders occur, Takumi worries that Shogun is attacking him and experiences paranoia and hallucinations, and he is not sure what is real and who he can trust. In one of his delusions, Shogun appears as an old man in a wheelchair and tells him that more people will die unless he wakes up.
When Takumi sees a girl carrying a large sword in public and realizes that only he can see her, Ayase Kishimoto, a student who recently transferred to Takumi’s school, tells him that she needs a “DI-sword” to be saved. She makes such a sword materialize in her hands and tells her how Takumi, the girl who carries the sword, Sena Aoi, and her friend Kozue Orihara are gigomaniacs: people with the ability to project delusions into reality, which is called “real- ripping“.