Steam Store Removal

05/01/2025 · Release · Hinedere Beat

So I’m trying to get this game removed from sale. It will replaced by the game linked below.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3387990/Kunoichi_Beat/

(The rest is just copy and pasted from a post on the replacement game’s page.)

There are some pretty stupid things to cover here:

This game is a re-release of one of my games that I’m trying to remove from sale called Hinedere Beat. The game had sexual content in it and I’m just not willing to sell nor make pornographic games anymore. So, I decided to re-release the game under a new appID while providing owners of Hinedere Beat access to this re-release.

My reasons for doing it like this instead of an update is so that I wouldn’t be revoking access to the erotic version of the game to people who payed money for that content while preventing any further sales of it and to hide any community posts (reviews, screenshots, etc.) referring to any of the sexual content. I’m not trying to run some kind of scam and getting all of those community posts to not refer to the sexual content just isn’t realistically possible.

Also, there are some other changes I’ve really been wanting to make for a few years now. I never made those changes mostly because of the crazy update history of the game. It feels like re-releasing like this is allowing me to make these changes a bit more smoothly than it would have otherwise been.

So, here are the patch notes for this transition:
  • Some backgrounds/tilesets were recolored
  • It’s now possible to move forward a little during the basic attacks by using the corresponding directional input
  • Enemies that could only be dispatched by getting consecutively hit by both of the attacks of the basic attack combination (when specifically using basic attacks to dispatch them) now have a HP counter
  • Changes to the dialogue
  • Removal of sexual content
Lastly, I’m going to get even cornier and mention that making some of these changes was a very difficult decision to make. I’m very sorry for any of this ridiculousness and am very grateful to anyone who put up with it.