Maybe I'm over-reacting, but I struggle to see the devs as the good party there. I don't think Steam and Epic are at fault for rejecting their game. But I am very against anything related closer or further with the sexualization of children. So that makes me strongly biased against the devs there. And I do not like the complacency of the specialized press with them, siding with the small against the big makes for a better narrative, sure. But the small just made the mistake there.
I know, they have removed the scene, I am just not inclined for forgiveness in such case.
And I am not for censorship either, even if I do feel that Steam could have stronger curation, but I don't want Steam to become DLSite through.

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If I understand the situation correctly, their game got rejected not because it was disturbing (that is non issue for Steam) but because of illegal content.
Either it is in good faith, and they should apologize, either it is a marketing stunt and the press, GoL included, should not play along uncritically, [edit: no offence intended. I don't want to be rude, of course Liam is king on how is media is run].

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So my source was the faq then. Steam reject the game not because they were unwiling to distribute it. Steam bas a jokingly low bar of entry. But because they were not allowed to do it in most country ( all of them except Japan I guess). So the initial rejection is unsurprising.
The only point is the rejection of the appeal once the illegal scene was removed but I sympathise with Steam not allowing appeal in such case.

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My understanding is that the game was banned, at least by Steam, for depiction of children in a sexualized way that was then removed. The game designer dont have my sympaty for using such underhanded marketing technique and I stand by Steam if this is the situation.

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That's like 4 millions monthly active users. That's too low to make Linux a primary target, but hopefully too high to be dismissed.

And as the Steam Deck sold around 4 millions units and is at 1 million monthly active users, we can extrapolate to 16 millions total Steam Linux user base, which is bigger than Wii U.

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I think I liked the previous ones that have so many low profile game better. That always lead me to discover some gems. Since last year, they put fewer but more recognized games like every other bundles. Tons of curated obscure games was the way to go.

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I guess that Debian is a better basis for runtime library changing every few years that the thundering rolling library of Arch.

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It would be fun if they extend that worldwide as almost no one has a credit card in France. What we called a credit card act like a debit card when doing payment in other country.

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Your post made me discover that the statistic page just disapear. That's so sad how internet which was supposed to be everrembering and eternal is slowly fading.

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Steam Runtime actually don't require steam https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime [External Link] .
But I don't disagree with your points. Proton has proven a better solution than native for many games.

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