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GOG Gives Away 13 Delisted Adult Games in 48-Hour Protest

It follows pressure from advocacy group Collective Shout on payment processors that led to delisting thousands of adult games without warning or appeals.

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Overview

  • GOG’s FreedomToBuy.games launch offers 13 sexually explicit titles for free over 48 hours to highlight censorship pressures on digital storefronts.
  • Itch.io has begun re-indexing free NSFW games under a newly published policy audit that lets developers choose free distribution.
  • Mastercard and Visa both denied imposing moral judgments, stating they only enforce legal compliance and do not moderate lawful content.
  • The International Game Developers Association and community petitions have demanded clear delisting rules, advance warnings and an appeals process after opaque removals.
  • GOG portrays its DRM-free giveaway as a defense of digital ownership permanence and a stand against financial intermediaries’ power to erase creative works.