Radiator Forever, an “ongoing remaster/re-release” collection of short, experimental gay games from developer Robert Yang has arrived on Steam, giving it a new home alongside Itch.io. In a blog post Speaking about the release, Yang described the complex situation facing adult game makers right now, with last year’s cases with payment processors and web-focused UK laws making it much harder for games like Radiator Forever to exist on mainstream PC platforms.
Yang, who you may remember from tracking down Dark Souls 2 hackers for us, has been making short-form gay games for years now. Radiator Forever is an amalgamation of such projects, designed to make it easier to update them in the future, as well as to make it easier to add new games to the collection. It can be found on Itch.io and now Steambut to see it on the latter you will need to be logged in and – in the case of UK users – have a valid credit card so Valve can verify your age. Finding the Steam listing without following this link is also nearly impossible, with Yang saying it’s “hidden from Steam search for most users and even geo-blocked in some countries.”
Yang then explained in more detail his decision to offer the games on Steam rather than just Itch, as well as the challenges that brings these days. “Collective Shout/Visa/Mastercard/Stripe’s anti-sexual censorship campaign in 2025 forced Itch to remove/bury many NSFW games to avoid being cut off from virtually all online payment processing,” he wrote. “Additionally, the UK’s much-criticized Online Safety Act forced Itch to geoblock the UK rather than risk costly, intrusive and ineffective compliance with bad law. Overall, the situation is still quite fragile, and the coming wave of anti-anonymity laws (masquerading as teen social media safety laws) is going to make it even more expensive for websites to serve their users. Of course, I will continue to use and support Itch as a much-needed Steam alternative, but the harsh reality is that Itch reaches far fewer people these days. So it’s time for me to return to Steam. »
According to Yang, Valve labeled Radiator Forever as containing “frequent nudity and sexual content,” which the developer said “is tantamount to delisting/shadowbanning 99% of the Steam user base.” “While I was careful to avoid any explicit nudity, upfront compliance is never enough to appease an overzealous censor, and Steam’s content reviewers decided that the general ‘nature’ of the game was just too gay, regardless of my good faith efforts,” Yang claimed. He also argued that there are double standards when it comes to free speech in games from major publishers versus independent developers, citing Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur’s Gate 3’s customizable genitals.
As for what makes this remastered collection even classier, beyond the changes to individual games, the developer added completion percentage tracking for each segment and a new tag to clearly indicate when something new has been added.
