Valve Changing Steam Review Process After Visual Novel Gets Canceled, Then Un-Canceled
Upcoming visual novel Chaos; Head Noah has had its Steam release canceled, and Valve is changing its review process for the game as a result.
The game’s release was pulled last month after Steam claimed “guideline-necessary changes” to the game’s content. Now, Steam seems to have reversed that decision.
“Valve’s content review team, the group that made the initial decision, revisited CHAOS;HEAD NOAH and decided to reverse course and allow the game to ship on Steam as-is,” Valve said. said. In a statement to the developer, Spike Chunsoft“We have also investigated the process that led to our previous decision regarding CHAOS;HEAD NOAH and have made some changes to avoid situations like this in the future.”
Chaos;Head Noah is a visual novel (and part of a science adventure series that includes the more famous Steins;Gate) in which players attempt to solve a series of murders in the Shibuya area of Tokyo. It remains unclear what the proposed changes were, but some have speculated that Steam may have initially refused to sell the game due to the game’s partial setup at school.
Whatever the changes, Spike Chunsoft appears unwilling to make them, stating that they will not allow the game to be released to the company’s standards.Released to that standard,” it said said at the time.
After the reversal, the company said: “I heard you.
These problems, too, seem to have been resolved in a fraction of a second – chaos. Head Noah launches today, October 7, 2022, on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.
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