Overview
- Valve says it reviewed Horses in 2023, gave feedback, and ultimately decided it would not ship on Steam under its onboarding rules.
- Epic removed the game roughly a day before launch, citing violations of its Inappropriate Content and Hateful or Abusive Content policies.
- Santa Ragione says platform reviewers have not specified which scenes or elements triggered the bans.
- Horses is currently available on GOG and itch.io, briefly disappeared from the Humble Store before being reinstated, and has climbed GOG’s bestseller rankings.
- Cofounder Pietro Righi Riva says publicity helped recoup part of the roughly $100,000 budget but warns the loss of Steam access threatens the studio and could drive self-censorship.