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VILE: Exhumed is available for free following its Steam removal | TheSixthAxis

DreadXP and developer Cara Cadaver have announced that VILE: Exhumed is being released as a free shareware title, after the game got caught up in Steam's

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DreadXP and developer Cara Cadaver have announced that VILE: Exhumed is being released as a free shareware title, after the game got caught up in Steam's mass banning of games due to payment processors refusing to allow people to buy certain games. It was banned for "sexual content with depictions of real people," even though the game does not contain any of this. Instead, the game is about the developer's own experience stalking and violence.

In a statement, Cara Cadaver said, "This censorship of my work is a direct attack on creative expression and artistic freedom, and it will not stop with false accusations of sexual content. They will come for anything that speaks more loudly than they do. This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not."

"As soon as we realized that the game had been banned, the conversation internally with Cara became about what we collectively could do to do right by her and her work. In the face of widespread attempted censorship, it didn't feel like a time for half-measures and compromise, so we all decided that releasing the game into the wild where it could never be made unavailable by a single platform felt like the best option, and strongest message." said DreadXP Director, Hunter Bond.

VILE: Exhumed is available to purchase from the website Vile Is Banned, from where users can download the game for free or choose to donate funds. Cara has said that 50% of all profits will be donated to the charity Red Door Family Shelter, which is based in Toronto and helps families, refugees, and women who are getting out of violent situations.

 

[CrimsonTide]

Pornhub and other sites got banned in my state, not because porn is illgeal, but they dont have a proper "age verification" method that keeps teens off it.

Wonder where it stops? R-rated movies? M-rated games? why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?! (I am in Alabama btw)

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Pornhub and other sites got banned in my state, not because porn is illgeal, but they dont have a proper "age verification" method that keeps teens off it.

Wonder where it stops? R-rated movies? M-rated games? why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?! (I am in Alabama btw)

Agree it's fucking bullshit, but the main thing you have to ask yourself is, why are you still in Alabama?

 

[CrimsonTide]

Agree it's fucking bullshit, but the main thing you have to ask yourself is, why are you still in Alabama?

Love the south, If I were to ever move, would be Florida likely, panhandle. Tennessee would not be bad either.

 

[The_Mike]

Pornhub and other sites got banned in my state, not because porn is illgeal, but they dont have a proper "age verification" method that keeps teens off it.

Wonder where it stops? R-rated movies? M-rated games? why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?! (I am in Alabama btw)

It stops when the government has full control and logs over your actions everywhere.

 

[CrimsonTide]

It stops when the government has full control and logs over your actions everywhere.

Well, they def already have most of it lol

 

[Retrofluxed]

Love the south, If I were to ever move, would be Florida likely, panhandle. Tennessee would not be bad either.

Got bad news for you. The age verification thing is here in Florida too.

 

[CrimsonTide]

Got bad news for you. The age verification thing is here in Florida too.

Yeah, a VPN is fine if I NEED.. to get around it lol But it's a dumb law and I understand why it exist, but let the parents be parents. That or create an age verification deal.

 

[Kilau]

Got bad news for you. The age verification thing is here in Florida too.

Yeah but remember it's not a ban, it's a self imposed block because they don't want to do the age verification stuff. Sites based outside of the the US work in FL.

 

[Zacfoldor]

isn't new.

We've just forgotten about it as a society. So we are doomed to repeat it.

I can't believe I'm having to go thru this censorship bullshit again in my lifetime.

 

[CrimsonTide]

Yeah but remember it's not a ban, it's a self imposed block because they don't want to do the age verification stuff. Sites based outside of the the US work in FL.

True, it's not really a ban. Technically speaking

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Love the south, If I were to ever move, would be Florida likely, panhandle. Tennessee would not be bad either.

yeah, strong supporters of the 2nd amendment there, the 1st, not so much...

 

[CrimsonTide]

yeah, strong supporters of the 2nd amendment there, the 1st, not so much...

Cant have the first without the 2nd lol

It's all dumb and "technically" it is not banned. It's a self imposed block done by Pornhub until states get an age verification going. We have had porn online for 35 years, you would think we would have a regular way to block it, wait we do, parents and parental controls and monitoring lol

No different than the ESRB getting created.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Got bad news for you. The age verification thing is here in Florida too.

it's not really tied to a political orientation; if anyone is paying attention, the UK has recently put in place one of the strongest online censorship/verification requirements in the world -- and it came from the progressive center-left

There is a real problem of the online world and children. I simply don't believe minors should have any unsupervised internet access. And parents can't easily fight against it on their own. But the right solution is hard to find, and solutions that kill internet freedom and anonymity for adults are bad.

 

[Pejo]

I can't believe I'm having to go thru this censorship bullshit again in my lifetime.

I'm sure some out of touch rich fucks in a secret society somewhere are sitting around a table congratulating each other, thinking this will fix the world's birth rate problem.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I only have AO games because they tried taking them away. They're responsible for the Streisand effect spreading their filth.

 

[simpatico]

Now there we're a quarter century past it happening, I don't see how loosening up obscenity standards have helped this country or its people. Not one bit. You can make a lot of cases for the opposite being true though.

 

[GHG]

why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?! (I am in Alabama btw)

My thoughts exactly.

Sad situation when fully grown adults don't want to take accountability for the content that their children have access to and/or are consuming and would rather defer to the government.

 

[CrimsonTide]

My thoughts exactly.

Sad situation when fully grown adults don't want to take accountability for the content that their children have access to and/or are consuming and would rather defer to the government.

Correct. My parents monitored everything I consumed. These days it's easier than ever. On any iPad or iPhone or whatever you can see every key stroke and block any app or sites. Simple as pie.

 

[ZehDon]

Wonder where it stops?... why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?!...

It stops with the total de-anonymisation of the internet. That's the goal: to know what everyone everywhere is doing online at all times. We're seeing this in the UK, where people are vigorously arrested for Social Media posts and they've just rolled out laughably ineffective facial verification non-sense. "Helpings the kids" is a just the convenient lie that enough people buy in to so this can get done. It starts with blocking the vague "terrible no-good" and then it seeps into other things.

 

[Retrofluxed]

it's not really tied to a political orientation; if anyone is paying attention, the UK has recently put in place one of the strongest online censorship/verification requirements in the world -- and it came from the progressive center-left

You do realize which party completely controls Florida, right?

The strange part is, I never mentioned any type of political party in my post. Did you mean to quote me?

 

[kiphalfton]

Pornhub and other sites got banned in my state, not because porn is illgeal, but they dont have a proper "age verification" method that keeps teens off it.

Wonder where it stops? R-rated movies? M-rated games? why can't parents PARENT anymore and keep the government out of my living room?! (I am in Alabama btw)

I'll keep you in my prayers.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

You do realize which party completely controls Florida, right?

The strange part is, I never mentioned any type of political party in my post. Did you mean to quote me?

wasn't so heated -- you were just the last in a chain of posts that started essentially with "why live in the south then?" and I was adding to that stack to say: in fact it's pretty much everywhere now, there are no definite regional (eg. california has instituted harsh measures of various kinds regarding 'net) nor political bounds for it.

 

[Randall365]

To be fair, this was always going to happen. Ideally parents would implement screentime etc on kids' phones and closely monitor social media usage, but in the real world most of them are fucking clueless, so the only way to stop 12 years olds first experience of sex to be some porn actress being choked while being fucked by her step-brother, or watching someone's head being chopped off for real in the middle east in their first 'scary movie' experience is this.

I fully expect social media for kids under 16 to be banned over the next ten years - it is just which country does it first.

We will go back to 12 year olds learning about life through finding a porn mag in a bush or watching Nightmare on Elm Street, which will be a good thing.

This game getting blacklisted by Steam is actually quite funny, because the developer apparently produced it as a critique of porn - they should be delighted all this stuff is getting locked out to kids, but nope, because it hits her in the wallet!