Our campaign and related petition calling on gaming platform Steam to remove rape-simulation game 'No Mercy' is gaining traction - and attracting global media attention. We've rounded up some highights here.
Collective Shout, a grassroots organisation which campaigns against sexualisation of children, complained to Steam and the Australian classification board, which found the game was unclassified and therefore illegal to sell in Australia.
It has since been removed from Steam in Australia but is available in other countries and on smaller game platforms.
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New video game that allows men to r*pe female family members triggers backlash amid incel concerns
April 9
Anti-sexploitation advocacy group Collective Shout launched a campaign against No Mercy and called on video game developer Valve, owner of Steam, to remove it from all platforms. Additionally, Collective Shout is committed to persuading Valve to no longer host games promoting rape and violence against women.
The non-profit argued that content like it is fuelled by attitudes of contempt for women and a sense of entitlement to their bodies.
“In a porn-saturated world, No Mercy is yet another form of media marketed to young men and boys that serves to fuel entitlement, destroy empathy and promote dominance and abuse,” Collective Shout argued.
In 2019, the charity led a similar campaign to get the game Rape Day removed by Valve, which allowed players to assume the identity of a sociopath using a Zombie apocalypse as an opportunity to rape women.
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How Did ‘No Mercy’, A Sexually Violent Video Game, Get Published In Australia?
April 10
Collective Shout, a grassroots organisation that rallied to remove Andrew Tate‘s instructional sex trafficking course on Spotify, has gotten involved. It’s launched a Change.org petition calling on Steam to remove No Mercy from its platform worldwide.
Rhea, a supporter of the petition, said, “I am a survivor of multiple instances of sexual assault and abuse. As a gamer, I am surviving sexual abuse, threats and just plain female shaming all the time,” she shared in her response to the survey. “There is such an embedded culture of misogynistic practices, abuse, belittling and toxicity in the male gaming community that I am terrified [of] what behaviour that games like No Mercy will produce.”
Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper said that by treating rape as entertainment, No Mercy puts all women at risk.
“Steam is complicit. In hosting this rape simulation game, they are endorsing crimes of violence against women,” she said.
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Home Secretary hails victory for LBC after vile rape and incest game pulled from download in UK
April 10
Efforts to have the game removed in Australia were spearheaded by campaign group Collective Shout who wrote to the country’s regulator as well as launching a global petition.
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Devs Behind Controversial Sexual Assault Game Defend It, But Say They're Pulling It From SteamAnyway
April 10
The studio behind No Mercy, a recently released 3D visual novel featuring non-consensual sex and incest, has announced that it plans to remove the game entirely from Steam after the game attracted controversy online. Valve pulled the game from the United Kingdom version of Steamafter a government official slammed Valve for allowing No Mercy to be sold on the storefront.
Many people online weren’t happy that Valve would allow No Mercy to be sold on Steam. An online petition demanding the game be removed reached over 10,000 signatures on Change.org.
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April 10
Valve stopped Steam sales of adult game No Mercy in the UK this week following a complaint from UK technology secretary Peter Kyle, who insisted that the "deeply worrying" game be removed due to its extreme content, as reported by news outlet LBC.
Before the developer of No Mercy chose to remove it from Steam entirely, a Change.org petition received over 13,000 signatures calling for Valve to stop sales of the game globally.
"By treating rape as entertainment, No Mercy puts all women and girls at risk," reads the petition.
No Mercy was also removed from sale in Canada and Australia, and on Thursday the developer announced that it would pull the game from Steam entirely, although it defended the content as harmless.
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