With indie game specialist storefront Itch.io following Steam in caving to pressure from credit card companies weaponized by a puritan anti-porn group called Collective Shout, players, artists, and game developers are speaking out and sharing resources hoping to bring change. A recurring theme among these responses is a concern that this takedown sets precedent for future, broader censorship.
"As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted," argued Mike Bithell of Bithell Games, known for the likes of Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular. "NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right."
