
Steam won’t let Chinese users see adult-only games
Steam isn’t officially available in China, but it’s not officially blocked either
Steam recently stopped censoring adult games. But that’s not true for Chinese users.
But China doesn’t have the latter option -- showing that they don’t have access to these games at all.

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But the world’s biggest PC game store is not officially available in China -- meaning that the government hasn’t given it an official green light. People can still buy games from the platform, but many of the games aren’t approved for sale by the country’s media regulator, putting the site in a legal gray area.
Gamers worry that the global version of Steam will be blocked entirely when an official version of Steam is released in China -- a version that some fear will be heavily censored. That means they’ll lose a way of accessing foreign games that are unlikely to ever see approval by Chinese regulators, like the Grand Theft Auto series.
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We haven’t received a response from Valve, Steam’s operator.
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