Santa Ragione’s controversial horror adventure game HORSES is out now on PC, but not before the game received another ban, this time from the Epic Games Store. This new ban comes after the game was originally barred from Steam during development, and 24 hours before the game launched on Epic’s platform.
According to the developers, Epic had originally approved the game for distribution on the platform “weeks earlier,” but had now blocked the game, despite giving “no specific indication of problematic content.” The only explanation Santa Ragione received was the “broad and demonstrably incorrect claims” that HORSES violated their content guidelines. Their appeal was denied 12 hours later with no further explanation.
As the team stressed before with the ban on Steam, HORSES “uses grotesque, subversive imagery to confront power, faith, and violence.” The team rejects the “subjective obscenity standards” being used in this situation, believing this kind of moralizing censorship “evokes a darker past in which vague notions of ‘decency’ were used to silence artists.”
The game sees players on a break from their college studies, deciding to spend the summer helping out on a secluded farm. Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow. What follows, however, are a series of encounters that test your obedience, complicity, and restraint. The “horses” owned by the farmer are actually enslaved, naked humans wearing horse masks. You must heed the farmer’s warnings, or face certain consequences.
You can purchase HORSES on GOG, itch.io, and the Humble Store.
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