


RINJ Confirms Rape Day was taken off the Steam Site – Photo Credit: Image from web Site Global Civil Society Women’s Group vows to block the sale of Rape-Crime-Promoting Video Games We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers.

Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary-we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. Given our previous communication around Who Gets To Be On The Steam Store?, we think this decision warrants further explanation. Today we’ve decided not to distribute this game on Steam. Over the past week you may have heard about a game called ‘Rape Day’ coming soon to Steam. While the “ rape day” game heads to underground gaming sales outlets at a higher price, at least one outlet will not sell the game. “The volatility of the situation in South Sudan combined with the lack of accountability for violations and abuses committed throughout Unity, likely leads armed actors to believe that they can get away with rape and other horrific forms of sexual violence,” said Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights. Rape Crime Pandemic Gets Encouragement from Rape-Day Video Game It does not include grinding or any other time wasting activities so skip the foreplay and enjoy your rape day. “ Rape day is a choice driven visual novel. The zombies enjoy eating the flesh of warm humans and brutally raping them but you are the most dangerous rapist in town. Verbally harass, kill and rape women as you choose to progress the story.” “Control the choices of a menacing serial rapist during a zombie apocalypse. “ Rape is not a game and the makers of this should not be allowed to make money promoting the rape and killing of women,” the petition declares. Video Rape Day game has players stalk, rape and kill women.Īrt: Rosa Yamamoto, Feminine-Perspective MagazineĪs 40% of women in South Africa suffer rape crime, sexual violence crime explodes in South Sudan, and former ISIS women are being raped in Syria and Iraq, a brain-dead money-grabbing video Rape Day game developer wants everyone to become a virtual rapist and murderer.
