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Shiravune has announced that the original Dungeon Travelers game is coming to PC via Steam and Johren on February 14, 2024.. Unlike the two sequels which were unfairly banned by Steam, the dungeon crawler will be available on Valve’s storefront on the Adults-only area.

Dungeon Travelers: To Heart 2 in Another World is the original game that gave birth to the franchise. It was originally a spin-off to popular visual novel ToHeart2 but the developers found out many fans of dungeon crawlers and hardcore RPGs highly respected their efforts and decided to try exploring an original idea for Dungeon Travelers 2.

Players will have multiple heroines from the ToHeart 2 game to recruit with different base classes. Build up the best team and face off the perils of the dungeons filled with monsters. Carefully exploring the areas will be the key to success

The story explores a isekai scenario in which Takaaki Kouno and his friends find themselves inside a “full-body immersive RPG experience” created by Ma-ryan. Fully clad in fantasy gear, they will have to do their best to look for answers exploring the dungeon.

While the news is fantastic, it once again shows the inconsistency of the Steam rules as the banned sequels feature explicit images in the same vein as the one now accepted. Hopefully, one day Valve reconsiders the whole thing and allows the banned titles, which were released on PS Vita, so they become available for more PC players.

Original Dungeon Travelers Game Comes To Steam In February; Sequels Still Banned - Noisy Pixel

Shiravune has announced that the original Dungeon Travelers game is coming to PC via Steam and Johren on February 14, 2024.. Unlike the two sequels which were

noisypixel.net

 

[Guilty_AI]

More of these devs should just release their stuff on GOG, they seem more ok with these sorts of games.

 

[Soltype]

Why were these games banned? I don't remember hearing anything crazy about them on the PSP?

 

[VolticArchangel]

Why were these games banned? I don't remember hearing anything crazy about them on the PSP?

OP reads explicit imagery.

Erotic VN's get banned all the time by all storefronts. This isn't new.

 

[ManaByte]

Why were these games banned?

Dungeon Travelers 2 Steam Release Apparently Blocked by Valve | TechRaptor

A Dungeon Travelers 2 Steam release appears to have been blocked by Valve, and while we don't know why, we can make an educated guess.

techraptor.net

Back in 2015, when Dungeon Travelers 2 originally launched, Western publisher Atlus confirmed that the game would have four of its images censored. These images include sexually suggestive material and artwork that skews dangerously close to depicting underage girls. The game's Western launch contained cleaned-up versions of these images (albeit still rather suggestive ones), so Dungeon Travelers 2 is a game that is not unfamiliar with censorship.

A couple of possibilities spring to mind here. Either the publishers submitted the uncensored version of Dungeon Travelers 2 to Valve, which spooked them, thus resulting in the Steam rejection. Alternatively, the publishers submitted the censored version, which still spooked Valve because it still contains lots of very sexually suggestive material, particularly of characters who appear to be young. There's plenty of hentai shovelware on Steam, of course (as well as plenty of regular ol' shovelware), but Dungeon Travelers 2 is a more high-profile release, so it's possible it was subjected to more scrutiny than your average 99-cent match-three puzzler.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

It appears that some new regulator at Steam believes in 1000 years old dragons.

 

[Soltype]

OP reads explicit imagery.

Erotic VN's get banned all the time by all storefronts. This isn't new.

Dungeon Travelers 2 Steam Release Apparently Blocked by Valve | TechRaptor

A Dungeon Travelers 2 Steam release appears to have been blocked by Valve, and while we don't know why, we can make an educated guess.

techraptor.net

I just found it strange that they were already released at some point without issue but steam would be banning them. Also didn't know the game was censored when it came here.

 

[LazyParrot]

Steam is notoriously erratic when it comes to enforcement of their guidelines concerning Japanese visual novels in particular. IIRC they even blocked The Expression Amrilato from being released initially, and that's an all-ages educational visual novel about learning Esperanto with no explicit scenes to speak of.