7 Censored Video Games That Went Way Too Far
7. House Party
The world of gaming censorship can lead to some very interesting questions. For example: How to censor House Party out of your own brain after you research it for an article?
Well, for the uninitiated, House Party is a game that involves performing various errands for a women at a house party in order to seduce them. If you do everything right, the game rewards the player with an actual pornographic cutscene.
Yup.
The game received a lot of understandable attention online for being equal parts hilariously stupid and hilariously bad. The cutscenes aren’t much more graphic than those in AAA games such as The Witcher, although they are made all the more ridiculous by the complete absence of any other gameplay.
There’s nothing wrong with nudity and sexuality in gaming as a part of a narrative progression. There’s a lot wrong with House Party, which is, in all honesty, more of a lame attempt at providing titillation than a game. Initially banned from Steam, the game was allowed back with heavy censorship, so it’s still available for anybody who hasn’t worked out what the internet is for to err… ‘enjoy’.