Acclaimed Italy-based indie studio Santa Ragione says its upcoming experimental horror game Horses will likely be its final project due to a Steam ban it calls "extremely frustrating and also fucked up."
Santa Ragione is by no means a household name, but it has a stable of acclaimed releases including the 2023 visual novel Mediterranea Inferno and the survival horror game from the same year, Saturnalia, as well as a brand identified by surrealist themes and avant-garde storytelling. Its next game Horses, revealed back in 2023, looks to be its most boundary-pushing yet, but for reasons still seemingly unclear to Santa Ragione, it's banned from Steam, and thus, it could be a financial bomb that sinks the studio into oblivion.
