{"id":45183,"date":"2025-03-05T12:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=45183"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:37:25","slug":"nintendo-eshop-seemingly-takes-action-against-notorious-hentai-puzzle-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-eshop-seemingly-takes-action-against-notorious-hentai-puzzle-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo eShop seemingly takes action against notorious \u201chentai\u201d puzzle games\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you frequent the My Nintendo Store\/Nintendo eShop, you\u2019re probably already used to encountering mass produced games <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">along the lines of \u201cHentai Girls\u201d or \u201cHentai Golf\u201d<\/a> for ridiculously cheap prices, and have accepted this as a part of life. However, it seems the Switch store has been taking action against these sexy puzzle games, or at least, one of the methods they employ to gain exposure on the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese X user Naruki, who tracks trends on My Nintendo Store, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/naetoru60\/status\/1895119472119443591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noticed and pointed out<\/a> that a bunch of these \u201chentai games,\u201d published by RedDeer.Games, have had their alternate versions delisted from the store since late February this year. To clarify, several of RedDeer.Games\u2019 suggestive jigsaw puzzle games were listed on the store with an almost comically large number of different editions, such as &nbsp;\u201cUltimate Edition,&#8221; &#8220;Special Edition,&#8221; &#8220;Definitive Edition,&#8221; &#8220;Legendary Edition,&#8221; &#8220;Director&#8217;s Cut,&#8221; &#8220;Game of the Year Edition,&#8221; &#8220;Amazing Edition,&#8221; and &#8220;Epic Edition.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1209\" height=\"604\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250305-45183-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hentai Golf on the Nintendo Store\" class=\"wp-image-45194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250305-45183-001-1.jpg 1209w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250305-45183-001-1-380x190.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250305-45183-001-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hentai Girls, for example, had a total of sixteen editions, but as of March 1, these have been deleted from the store. On the other hand, the game itself and its DLC remains available for purchase. The same has happened with Hentai Golf, Hentai World and Anime Girls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listing numerous \u201ceditions\u201d of a game is generally considered to be a kind of exploit of Nintendo eShop\u2019s system, meant to bump the game\u2019s position in the recent releases section and give it more hits from people searching \u201cDeluxe Edition\u201d and the like when looking for other games. With that in mind, it comes as no surprise that the practice is frowned upon by users of the platform, as it clutters up search results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1337\" height=\"812\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1337px) 100vw, 1337px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240117-25637-header.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240117-25637-header.webp 1337w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240117-25637-header-380x231.webp 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240117-25637-header-768x466.webp 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did the Nintendo eShop take action in response to such complaints or did RedDeer.Games decide to clean up the store listings of their \u201cHentai series\u201d? We can\u2019t know for sure at the moment, but it might be worth mentioning that other games from the publisher, like the infamous \u201cAAA Clock\u201d still have many different editions listed on the store, so it\u2019s possible that the sexually suggestive hentai puzzle games attracted more negative attention and were thus targeted. AUTOMATON has reached out to RedDeer.Games for comment, and will be updating this article if there is a response from the publisher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of suggestive puzzle games like Hentai Girls and Hentai Golf have had their alternative DLC editions delisted from the Nintendo eShop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":45190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-45183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo eShop seemingly takes action against notorious \u201chentai\u201d puzzle games\u00a0\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A bunch of suggestive puzzle games like Hentai Girls and Hentai Golf have had their alternative DLC editions delisted from the Nintendo eShop.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-eshop-seemingly-takes-action-against-notorious-hentai-puzzle-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nintendo eShop seemingly takes action against notorious \u201chentai\u201d puzzle games\u00a0\u00a0 - 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