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'''Game Jolt''' is a social platform for video games. It also hosts games, including downloadable ones for different operating systems and HTML5 ones.
'''Game Jolt''' is a social platform for video games. It also hosts games, including downloadable ones for different operating systems and HTML5 ones.
On January 3, 2022, with no prior warning or official announcement, they removed their adult tag and locked a number of adult games behind a new "GAME_LOCKED_STATUS_ADULT" category. This change can be seen in their open source website/client code:
https://github.com/gamejolt/gamejolt/pull/893/commits
They also added the ability for users to report games as explicit, which may lead to further removals.
The public webpage for a locked game doesn't show up, but users who purchased a locked game can continue to download it until December 31, 2022, according to e-mails sent to developers whose games were locked.
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1478500373484564483
No one has yet investigated whether there is a workaround to download locked games that were previously free, such as by modifying their client.
2 closest WBM captures for the policy change:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133529/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines
https://web.archive.org/web/20220103212540/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines

Revision as of 22:20, 7 January 2022

Game Jolt
URL https://gamejolt.com/
Status Unknown
Archiving status Unknown
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #gamejilt (on hackint)

Game Jolt is a social platform for video games. It also hosts games, including downloadable ones for different operating systems and HTML5 ones.

On January 3, 2022, with no prior warning or official announcement, they removed their adult tag and locked a number of adult games behind a new "GAME_LOCKED_STATUS_ADULT" category. This change can be seen in their open source website/client code:

https://github.com/gamejolt/gamejolt/pull/893/commits

They also added the ability for users to report games as explicit, which may lead to further removals.

The public webpage for a locked game doesn't show up, but users who purchased a locked game can continue to download it until December 31, 2022, according to e-mails sent to developers whose games were locked.

https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1478500373484564483

No one has yet investigated whether there is a workaround to download locked games that were previously free, such as by modifying their client.

2 closest WBM captures for the policy change: https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133529/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines https://web.archive.org/web/20220103212540/https://gamejolt.com/help/guidelines