Steam Pulls Dating Sim That Helps You Do Your Taxes
A new game called Tax Heaven 3000 promises in-depth lessons into the intricacies of the U.S. tax filing system in a dating sim wrapper. This unconventional title started making waves on social media not long after its genre got some mainstream attention with Overwatch 2's Loverwatch dating sim.
Tax Heaven 3000 comes from MSCHF Product Studio, a small developer with one released game to its name, Chair Simulator. While that 2021 experience parodies walking simulators, Tax Heaven 3000 takes aim at the IRS, as implied by a cached version of the game's product description on Steam.
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«Cached,» because Valve pulled Tax Heaven 3000 from its marketplace on March 22 for unknown reasons. The adult content was likely not at issue, not least because Steam is full of dating sims, to the point this genre has its own category on the storefront. One possibility is that the game was taken down due to an influx of community reports, which some users have recently been calling for via the Tax Heaven 3000 Community Hub, arguing that any product asking for one's social security number and other personally identifiable information must be an elaborate identity theft ploy.
MSCHF co-founder Daniel Greenberg subsequently told The Verge Tax Heaven 3000 was vetted by Valve in a standard listing process, adding that Steam gave the company no prior notice about its act of «deplatforming.» While the game appears to be a humorous parody of the U.S. tax system and over-reliance on software like TurboTax, its now-pulled Steam description also appears to imply it will legitimately assist players with filing their taxes, so long as they are federal. One other caveat is that the tax return
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