No Mercy is a newly released pornographic 3D game developed by Zerat Games and hosted on 12+ gaming platform Steam. In the rape simulator game, players assume the persona of a man who rapes his female family members, including his mother and aunt, as punishment for his mother’s infidelity.
No Mercy features deeply disturbing pornographic depictions of rape and incest as entertainment. It promotes harmful stereotypes of masculinity based on violence and domination and reinforces male sexual entitlement to women’s bodies.
This game encourages men to “own” and “subdue” women. Rape and humiliation are portrayed as appropriate punishment for disobedient women. Women are framed as secretly desiring rape.
This week Collective Shout launched our petition calling on Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam’s parent company Valve to remove the game from the global platform.
Female gamers and sexual assault survivors have joined us in condemning the game.
“I am 10000% behind Collective Shout on this. I am a survivor of multiple instances of sexual assault and abuse. Honestly, as a gamer, I am surviving sexual abuse, threats and just plain female shaming all the time. There is such an embedded culture of misogynistic practices, abuse, belittling and toxicity in the male gaming community, that I am terrified what behaviour that games like No Mercy will produce.” Rhea, NSW
“As both a sexual assault survivor and female gamer, this makes me feel sick. Games like these only add to a growing problem and further isolate other female gamers. I'd like Steam to understand they are complicit in the content they distribute. To allow this type of digital abuse makes them equally a perpetrator and pimp.” Katrina, Vic
“As someone who has gone through sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a family member, I find this game horrendous and dangerous and was sickened when I first read about it. It is heartbreaking that boys are learning to see sexual abuse and incest as just entertainment. It is triggering to all survivors.” Justine, Vic
“As a gamer and teacher I see the sexism in gaming – and its real world consequences in schools, every day. The violence, the crude language, sexual harassment and violence. It seems Steam has no standards if it can allow a game like this which treats women as objects. It’s quite scary.” – Georgie, NSW
"I love video games, always have, but there’s a big misogynistic movement within the gaming community. Women who play online games (I don’t) often have to have their mics off and pretend to be male, or they’ll end up with abuse. It’s pretty rank, and a big reason why I only play single player games." - Esther, VIC
"They’re not even attempting to hide it. The fact that the poster image for this game is the crying face of a woman says it all." - Anna, NSW
We are so grateful for these survivors who bravely spoke out and shared how the promotion and sale of this game affects them.
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