Indie game clearinghouse itch.io is the latest online gaming storefront to take action to remove or limit the availability of some adult content, bowing to pressure from payment processors spurred by ...

On Thursday July 24, the game storefront itch.io, a popular online marketplace for indie game developers, announced it has “deindexed” all NSFW games from its browse and search pages. The statement ...

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. In an open letter addressed to ...

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered ...

After similar pressure was placed on Steam just last week, another storefront, Itch.io, has followed suit and culled the vast majority of its adult and sexual content. It cites the efforts of the ...

Last week, the typically indie digital-games storefront Itch.io deindexed a majority of not safe for work (NSFW) or adult content. Deindexing doesn't mean that the games are all no longer available, ...

It has been reported that, following June 2025, Steam will delist NSFW (non-suitable for work) adult content-based games from its marketplace, citing new “onboarding” marketplace rules. The rules are ...

On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and payment processors over its hosting of NSFW ...

A few hours after this story was published, Itch.io clarified that Mouthwashing is de-indexed, but said it's been that way since October 2024, and not as a result of the payment processor crackdown.

itch.io is the latest storefront to curb the sale of adult and “NSFW” content on its platform due to pressure from payment processors like Visa and Mastercard. As of Thursday, the indie-focused ...