Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch
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Horses is proving to be something of a surprise hit, at least on the storefronts where you can still buy it.

Currently, only GOG and Itch are still selling this game.

EDIT: It seems the game has returned to Humble Bundle.

    • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      22 hours ago

      It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      74·
      19 hours ago

      It was a child doing pony play, riding a naked adult man-horse. The dev claimed it was not sexual.

      I don’t think gaming needs CSAM to be a “unique art form”, but you do you.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
        83·
        16 hours ago

        Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

        Depiction isn’t harm, if it was damn near all literature would be in the same category.

        Let’s not go down that slippery slope.

        Books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume would be considered abuse material on such an asinine slope.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

          Drawing people having sex isn’t sex, but it is porn. Verbally attacking someone isn’t assault, but it can be abuse. Drawing a comic where someone tortures and then kills the president of the United States isn’t murder, but it will get the FBI knocking on your door.

        • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          53·
          16 hours ago

          Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder and drawing Noncon isn’t rape.

          it’s literally legally defined as CSAM in most western countries. and I probably wouldn’t be arguing otherwise, since it looks like the other dude who did that got all his posts deleted by the mod.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        18 hours ago

        Read the plot summary of the play Equus linked above.

        Like I say, this sounds like the gaming equivalent of Equus, which, when performed, involves a character supposed to be 17 doing exactly that.

        The horses on stage are supposed to be “real” horses, but are performed by human actors. The male actor in these scenes is also typically nude.

        NGL, it’s a HEAVY play to read and even heavier to watch, but it also won the 1975 Tony Award for best play…