Steam just deleted hundreds of games from the store

The Christmas period is a good time to give your house a bit of a deep clean in lieu of decorations and having guests over. Valve appears to be taking this sentiment to heart this year, as it's begun a clear-out of Steam's archives. Spotted by Reddit user thomasthe1st, according to the banned list on madjoki.com's Steam tracker, Valve is in the midst of a huge dumping of games and projects that are clogging up the storefront's digital shelf-space. Starting with Bloodbath Kavkaz, hundreds and hundreds of games have been banned from the service, more coming almost every second. The additions are almost uniformly cheap indie projects, many of which are hard to find information on beyond their now deleted Steam pages. At time of writing the overall amount deleted is at just over 2550, having jumped up several hundred within the last two hours. Before this purge, there was a steady drip of deletions, as evidenced by going back through madjoki's records. Most happened in small clumps, sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly, but nothing anywhere near this scale. There's been pressure on Valve for years to increase moderation on Steam, to have more stringent guidelines for what's acceptable on the service and what isn't, from bigoted content to asset flips and so on. This certainly looks like it might be a step in that direction.

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