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The Bizarre World of BANNED Horror Games

270K views · 28 Oct 2026

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@tomking6006 · 12 days ago
I work in IT. Computers make me cry on a regular basis.
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@prowlingmonkey · 6 days ago
I think Rule of Rose having a hard to follow and surreal story also conveys the idea of kids not being able to fully grasp what is happening to them when it comes to abuse.
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@liamsivertsen3988 · 12 days ago
"Can a Computer Make You Cry?" Man, the world was so much more naive about the internet back then, huh?
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@kirbo1516 · 6 days ago
Fun fact: Australia bans everything including gta’s casino, but they don’t ban sports betting apps
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@LegionEagles22 · 9 days ago
The assasination of Rule of Rose pisses me off. It really shows how disinformation (there is no way it is misinformation that was an INTENTIONAL attack) can ruin everything.
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@ExtremePotato-g3n · 11 days ago
little fun fact about the rule of the rose and italy, the dude who wrote that article actualy HAS NEVER EVEN ONCE SAW THE GAME nor the cover, nor anything what he did was basicaly reading an american article, and then ADDING stuff up he knew nothing about this game yet he said those things (indeed the "who buried the girl first wins") because either he belived it was the game or simply invented it rule of the rose became extremaly rare here in italy due that, and anyone who tryed to explane the actualy game was dismissed as insane, stupid, pedo, psychotic ect ect.
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@UnderAvg · 12 days ago
I cannot believe that random game I bought for $30 in high school is now over $600+
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@YamiVT · 11 days ago
Rule of Rose is such a wonderful piece of art, and people still think it's some crazy pervert game all this time later
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@twilightvulpine · 11 days ago
The OG Horses scene is outrageous, but it's outrageous for the sake of the point. It's far more impactful that a child says that she can tell something is wrong in this fucked-up situation, but she can't do anything about it and all the adults are complicit to it. A grown ass woman saying that is like "yeah, no shit they aren't horses. I have eyes too." But people get so mad at the idea of the child witnessing fucked-up stuff that their brains shut down and they accuse the artists rather than thinking about what it means and seeing who deserves to be condemned. Children witnessed slavery and were enslaved. Children witnessed nazism and were persecuted. There are children in Gaza. Children are exposed to horrific things. People should put more effort into stopping those, than hating artists making them think about it.
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@RaxiazRedux · 12 days ago
Rule of Rose should get a remake. I think in today's gaming industry landscape it could do well from an indie studio spin.
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@Ashtarte3D · 12 days ago
The funniest thing about Phantasmagoria's "controversies" is the sequel "A Puzzle of Flesh" is way, way more violent and 'depraved.'
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@Drawingforaliving · 11 days ago (edited)
It's funny how each one of these games that were banned talk about some of the most difficult yet important topics. And it's usually never about the violence and gore and things you can wave off as campy fun, it's always about content that calls out issues that a lot of people higher up refuse to take seriously. The people who try to ban these games, like Phantasmagoia, Horses and Rule of Rose, like to pull the "think of the children!" card when, in reality, they just don't like seeing themself in the villains in these stories. There's another game that was banned along side Horses, called VILE: exhumed. It's a game about how how misogyny and entitlement over women is normalized in both the horror and adult film communities, and how living in an echo chamber of people telling already misogynistic people that their abuse of women is "no big deal" and the consequences they face are "unfair" creates monsters. This leads to the player realizing that the owner of the computer that we're digging into not only was a rapist, but a serial killer who made snuff films after one of his online friends introduced him to the concept once extreme horror pornography became too tame for him, and that he targets women who look like his favorite porn actress. It's a game that genuinely made me feel sick at times and it doesn't even show the violence on screen, just bits and pieces of the aftermath. There's blood, but there's no uncensored gore or nudity. And yet this game was banned from steam for "real depictions of sex and violence". And that just straight up isn't in the game. The photos of a bruised woman are just make up and are slightly bit crushed. The blood is classic Halloween fake blood. We see the lead up to a rape, but not the rape itself. In reality, it was banned for talking about a topic that people realty need to discuss.
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