{"id":4200,"date":"2025-08-06T00:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/banned-steam-game-vile-exhumed-is-back-as-a-free-shareware-title\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:31:39","slug":"banned-steam-game-vile-exhumed-is-back-as-a-free-shareware-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/banned-steam-game-vile-exhumed-is-back-as-a-free-shareware-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">After her game was banned from sale on Steam in <ins>a baffling decision with no appeal option<\/ins>, solo developer Cara Cadaver has made <em>VILE: Exhumed<\/em> available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The <ins>project<\/ins> can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer&rsquo;s work. Both Cara and publisher DreadXP will pay forward those donations, with 50 percent of the game&rsquo;s profits being given to the Toronto-based charity <ins>Red Door Family Shelter<\/ins>. The group aids families, refugees and women who are escaping violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Both <ins>Steam<\/ins> and <ins>Itch.io<\/ins> have recently adopted sweeping and vague policies regarding their approach to projects with adult content due to <ins>pressure from payment processors<\/ins>. Itch.io has begun re-indexing some projects, but <ins>only free ones<\/ins>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">These changes have disproportionately impacted projects by underrepresented and queer creators, according to a <ins>statement<\/ins> from the International Game Developers Association that condemned the broad delisting of adult games. In her post announcing the new distribution plan for <em>VILE: Exhumed<\/em>, Cara summed up the situation pretty aptly: &ldquo;What this actually results in is taking power and storytelling away from women, other marginalized artists, and ultimately, from everyone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her game was banned from sale on Steam in a baffling decision with no appeal option, solo developer Cara Cadaver has made VILE: Exhumed available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The project can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer&rsquo;s work. Both Cara&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/banned-steam-game-vile-exhumed-is-back-as-a-free-shareware-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}