Steam "frivolously" rejects promising retro FPS for adding a sexual assault content warning, its creators say

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I've been greatly looking forward to sci-fi immersive sim shooter Fortune's Run, despite absolutely sucking at the demo. Scandalously, we don't appear to have covered this indie sci-fi FPS on these golden pages, so here's a quick overview: you're the high-jumping, sword-wielding, bullet-pumping lovechild of Deus Ex and DOOM, galloping through a world that recalls the Imperial bases and sewers of Dark Forces, taking down grungy pixelart sprites by means of precision parries, grabs, combos, headshots, terrain traps and much more besides. Between dust-ups, you can play basketball and leave crayon graffiti for other players care of a Dark Souls-style messaging system. It's a feast!

The game was due to launch into Steam early access tomorrow, 27th September, but unfortunately, there's been a delay. Valve's testers have denied Fortune's Run approval to launch on the platform. Among the reasons, according to developer Team Fortune themselves, is that Valve don't feel the game's content warning for sexual assault is actually necessary.

"Bad news everyone," reads a statement on the Steam page. "We have been rejected by Valve again. We are now two days from release. Valve has frivolously rejected our launch for the third time." The statement explains that Valve kicked back the build initially because testers couldn't locate one particular "huge combat level", which the developer resolved by giving them console commands. This led to a week's delay.

But Valve have also now found fault with Team Fortune's labelling of their game's subject matter. Be warned that the following two paragraphs contain a brief description of sexual assault.

"Our protagonist's journey is motivated by a past traumatic event involving sexual