Domina has been delisted from Steam after yet another transphobic diatribe

pcgamer.com:

Domina has been delisted from Steam after its developer—Dolphin Barn Incorporated—once again used the game's patch notes as a political soapbox, this time to post a transphobic screed(opens in new tab). Visitors to Domina's Steam page will find a notice stating, «At the request of the publisher, Domina is no longer available for sale on Steam» in place of the usual option to purchase the game.

Judging by SteamDB records(opens in new tab), Domina was removed sale about 12 hours ago, seemingly in response to the game's 1.3.25 patch notes titled, «We're Out of Ideas, Mentally Unstable, Totally Degenerate, & Desperate for Clout — Lets Pretend We're A Completely Different Game to Regain Relevance!» The notes are, in essence, an extended joke about deadnaming: the transphobic act of referring to a trans person who has changed their name by the name they were assigned at birth.

It seems that this was the final straw for Valve, which had already banned Domina's dev(opens in new tab) from the game's Steam forums once before. In a post on Gab, a Twitter alternative popular with neo-Nazis, QAnon conspiracy theorists(opens in new tab), and other members of the far-right, Domina's creator posted a screenshot which appeared to show a message from Valve terminating its relationship with the game and its developer.

Valve's message read, «A recent announcement posted to the Domina community hub includes insults targeting another person,» referring to allegations and insults the dev made toward Keffals, a trans Twitch streamer who is currently in hiding from a harassment campaign which recently had her swatted(opens in new tab). The message stated that Valve had previously made it clear to the developer that future rule violations would