UPDATE: This game has been re-indexed as of August 14, 2025.
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It appears that one of the educational games published by our nonprofit program, Gaming Against Violence, is not appearing in searches now. 

Stuck in a Dark Place is a game designed to teach young people about the meaning and importance of consent: 

"This narrative-based game covers many different aspects of consent through eight chapters. [...] Stuck in a Dark Place includes discussions of non-consensual sexual activity including assaults."

This, and several of our other games, are played in classrooms in conjunction with the free lesson plans we have published for use by educators.

Although the game is rated "T" (ESRB) and "12+" (App Store) we added the "NSFW" label on itch.io to avoid re-traumatizing those who have previously experienced trauma. We take a trauma-informed approach to game production and provide content warnings on our games whenever applicable. Marking it as "NSFW" is just one way we strive to avoid creating harm. This is clearly not an adult game.

As with all of our games, it is also free.

link to the game: https://jag.itch.io/stuck-in-a-dark-place

We have opened a support ticket.

this kills mu whole company :(

shadow banned:
https://wataponno.itch.io/mma
https://hellocrime.itch.io/lovelycraft
https://bohohon.itch.io/deep-vault-69
https://jasonafex.itch.io/amorous-2
https://vivthegame.itch.io/viv-the-game
https://rahimew.itch.io/bdcc
https://it-that-watches.itch.io/monster-slayer

dose anyone have the link for monmusu?

UPDATE: This game has been re-indexed as of August 14, 2025.
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(We realize our games are different than the other games on this list. But we are being impacted also. Such "unintended consequences" are one of the reasons that censorship is a slippery, tricky slope.)

A 2nd games of ours has been de-indexed: https://jag.itch.io/a-thousand-cuts-early-edition

It is not an "adult game". It is an educational narrative game about the impact that a college's Title IX process has on a survivor of a campus-related assault. It was created by the award-winning writer Elizabeth Ballou. We marked the game with a NSFW tag to highlight the content warning we added to the game. We did not want players to casually play it and then be affected by NSFW language and discussions of assaults in the game.

Also, our nonprofit org's other NSFW non-adult game is still not indexed. We opened a support ticket last week for that game but have only received an acknowledgement from itchio. 

We have been promoting itchio as our primary storefront for our group's games since 2017. We are increasingly concerned about the response to this current issue. Our org is going to have to address this soon. We are too small to take risks with one of our primary outreach channels.

Although we do not have "adult games", our games are about sensitive issues. Will our LGBTQ-friendly games be targets next? 

Is anybody receiving responses from support?