Since this curator is dead, here's a new one.

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/curator/45494755-Censored-Videogames

Okay, they should all be done now. Most links now lead directly to the developer's patch download, but a handful of links lead to specific threads in the SteamUncensored subreddit for when patch instructions are not included on the download page or inside the patch and might be too complicated to assume.

This is just a heads-up: Steam has recently decided that developers cannot post links to uncensor patches in the discussion boards anymore. Several of the reviews in this curator link directly to developer comments in the discussion boards, which will obviously be useless soon because of this change. I plan on going through all of the reviews in the coming days and replacing the links in those reviews to direct links to patches.

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The Japanese self-censoring is the worst thing that can happen.

In fact the inclusion of gore in Steam version should be called uncensor instead of censorship. Because we're talking about the english version here.

regarding berserk game .. if you're going to say the game is censored you should compare it to the same game from other regions (like missing casca outfit DLC). I also think the missing gore in JP version is actually more like trivia instead of censorship since we're talking about the english version. Comparing the game to it's anime/manga counterpart is irrelevant and misleading.

I guess I should also ask whether the game's cutscenes being censored as compared to the anime/manga would itself warrant being on the curator. Every other game on this curator, as far as I can remember, was added either because:

1) There is a version of the game in one region with more content than another
2) There is a version of the game available from some retailer with more content than another
3) The version of the game currently available has had content removed from a version that had been available earlier

From all that I've seen (which isn't a lot, as there isn't much video available of the western version as of yet) the Japanese cutscenes and the western cutscenes are identical. So I'm not sure if missing nudity from game cutscenes as compared to versions from other media would be fair or not. It's not as though the content was removed from our version of the game; it doesn't exist in any other version of the game, but it does exist in other media.

Here's the best I can find with regards to BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk:

1) The cutscenes do not show nudity like the animated movies do (seems to mostly be in the vein of "artfully and conveniently arranged locks of hair").
2) The west, for the time being, does not have the wet t-shirt Casca costume.

The former seems to be the case for all versions of the game regardless of region, so it's not cut content as far as I can tell. I don't know if the costume was removed because of ratings/PR concerns in western countries or if we'll be getting it later. I'll update the curator in a few days when some more concrete information is available, but it looks like, at the least, the cutscenes are censored as compared to the original manga and anime versions.

Can someone verify that risqué content was cut from Berserk Musou? I'm pretty sure it was.

Was likely a glitch, Sniper Joe, but as Rigolax and Omnious said, I wouldn't be at all shocked if Valve had a hand to play in limiting the choices.

The curator is now fully functional again, fyi. Might have been just a technical glitch, I don't know. It's pretty clear though that Valve at one point at least considered limiting the curator as such.

Valve limiting the ways for a consumer to stay informed. Doesn't come as much of a shock, sadly.

So, a bit of news on that front...I actually am not able to add new games to the curator as of now.

Valve has apparently removed the ability to add a curation for a game unless the person writing said curation actually owns the game. This means I would have to support a game that has been censored to warn others that it has been censored, which is not something I'm about to do. Also, frankly, I just don't have the money to buy every game that's been censored on Steam. So, until Valve gets around to removing this change, it's very likely you will not see updates to this curator for a while. Games that I've previously put on the curator will remain there, I just can't add any new ones unless they're ones I own.

Sorry about that.

You should add fishing planet. Their moderator Flaguitars deletes any posts even remotely negative of critical.

Until I come to a permanent decision, I'm temporarily changing all of the recommendations to "Informational."

So, here's something I'd like to ask you guys. Recently, Steam added functionality to curators. In the past, every time I added a game to this curator it technically counted as a positive recommendation, despite the curator being meant to WARN against games with censorship.

Well now Steam has added three categories for games added to the curator: recommended, NOT recommended, and informational.

How should I label games added to this curator from now on? Are they positive recommendations, negative recommendations, or merely informational? Or should it be situational (for instance, games with no patch available at all count as negative, games with developer patches count as positive, and games with uncensored versions from other retailers being informational, as an example)?

Nice

It's a case of Steam's search function being needlessly complicated and specific. You need to search under Top Curators, and specifically with the words "censorship" or "watch." Just "censor" won't do; nor will it do for any of the other curators with censor in the title. This is a general problem with their search function. For instance, searching "frame" won't bring up TotalBiscuit's Framerate Police, and searching "cont" won't bring up Cut-Content Police.

Why do they do it this way? I have no idea. In fact, it strikes me as absolutely idiotic. But I don't think it's malicious, rather just very poorly coded search functionality.

Glad to have you, by the way! Remember, everyone, suggest games that you think should be on the list! You'll be helping your fellow gamers out.

Great group, couldn't join or even search for you in the Steam client (nothing comes up if you search Censor)
I had to search for you on Google, even then Steam kept popping up errors: "There was a problem trying to follow the Steam Curator."
I was meaning to join after seeing an article on a similar group in RPS/Kotaku

Doing a little research, it looks like the Australian version of L4D2 was fairly recently patched to uncensor everything, but I can't find any such patch available for the German version, so I've added that as a "recommendation." (If someone has the German version and this is incorrect, please do let me know!)

Curiously, I can't find evidence that TF2 is censored in Australia, though I can certainly believe it from reading about how they treated L4D2. If anyone can confirm somehow that it is (a video or a screenshot of lack of blood/corpses/gibs/etc. would suffice), I'll update the recommendation to include the Australian version, but for now all I can find evidence of is censorship in the German version.

It's only currently focused on Japanese games because I get my news from niche gaming websites which focus mostly on Japanese games. I'd love to widen the net, because this is, after all, meant to be helpful to gamers as a whole, not just those who enjoy Japanese games or eroge. And, likewise, it's focused mostly on censorship in U.S. versions because that's where I live. Again, I'd love to broaden it to help people from other regions.

Which is why if you have recommendations, please post them! I'll look into the TF2 and LFD2 censorship and add them in.

Hi. I see that the focus of this Kurator is on animé games and alike. But do you also consider to incorporate games which aren't necessarly in this genre but also have been censored? f.e. Team Fortess 2, Left 4 Dead 2 (which are censored in germany and australia if i'm not mistaken).

Another question: Do you only curate games that have been globally censored or would you also note that a game may been censored in germany but not in the rest of the world?

Thanks in advance for reading my lenghty comment.

Why dont you get in contact with the Cut-Content Police people and see if you can both collaborate under a single curator? More work done, less possibility of everyone abandoning the project.

God bless this group, i hate censored games

Heard about you guys from usher (not the rapper). Good idea, keep going.

Also, if you have any recommendations about things to add, please just mention them here! I'll add them as soon as I can.

I definitely don't plan on abandoning it, but this is a side thing for me (and obviously somewhat new) so it doesn't always get updated as often or as quickly as I would like.

I considered adding D:OS to the list, but I decided to draw the line at curating pre-game content, like the belly skin fiasco in Original Sin. At the time, I didn't think it entirely fair to blast the game for its promotional content when nothing in the game itself seemed to be censored (though I could be mistaken on that). However, if enough people would like for that kind of stuff to be included, I'm not necessarily deadset against it.

Glad I found you guys. Keep up the good work.