{"id":68623,"date":"2026-06-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=68623"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:42:57","slug":"developer-of-papers-please-like-customs-simulator-xenofeels-had-to-clarify-theres-no-hentai-in-the-game-following-steam-user-tag-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/developer-of-papers-please-like-customs-simulator-xenofeels-had-to-clarify-theres-no-hentai-in-the-game-following-steam-user-tag-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer of Papers, Please-like customs simulator\u00a0XenoFeels\u00a0had to clarify \u201cthere\u2019s no hentai\u201d in the game\u00a0following\u00a0Steam user tag confusion\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>XenoFeels<\/strong>, an upcoming space customs simulator in a similar vein to Papers,\u00a0Please,\u00a0has\u00a0drawn\u00a0attention for its \u201cHentai\u201d tag on Steam.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/4293910\/view\/704397413072243767?l=english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to\u00a0KotaMota\u00a0Games<\/a>, the tag was added by\u00a0those who played the demo,\u00a0not by the developers, and\u00a0they\u00a0humbly ask those who misleadingly tagged the game to delete it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XenoFeels&nbsp;puts you in the shoes of a space customs officer tasked with weeding out the&nbsp;Xenos, a race hellbent on terrorizing and killing the citizens of planet Dearth.&nbsp;By&nbsp;comparing photographs and documents, as well as&nbsp;searching&nbsp;their vehicles, you can expose the impostors and are given the right to shoot them with your trusty service shotgun.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"XenoFeels - Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcuhvPYcAyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the game&nbsp;contains&nbsp;no explicit sexual content,&nbsp;it does have&nbsp;dirty jokes, innuendos, and&nbsp;\u201clewd&nbsp;material.\u201d&nbsp;One of the aliens in the&nbsp;trailer&nbsp;above&nbsp;suggestively asks if you want to conduct a \u201cfull body search\u201d of her, while another alien comments on the size of your shotgun. Despite its evocative content, the developers&nbsp;have&nbsp;kept things within the&nbsp;16+ range.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&nbsp;KotaMota&nbsp;Games might not have known is that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/partner.steamgames.com\/doc\/store\/tags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">user-defined tags on Steam can be removed by developers<\/a>&nbsp;if they think it is not&nbsp;representative&nbsp;of their game. Regardless,&nbsp;the Hentai tag has since been removed from&nbsp;XenoFeels,&nbsp;which will hopefully prevent any further&nbsp;misunderstandings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XenoFeels&nbsp;is&nbsp;planned to release in 2026 for&nbsp;Windows (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/4293910\/view\/704397413072243767?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>). A free demo is&nbsp;available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KotaMota Games, the developer of upcoming space customs simulator XenoFeels, has clarified that the title is not a Hentai game after user-submitted Steam tags caused a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":68625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2","date":"2026-06-23T16:00:12+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3moxrhdhoz32d","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:uzrrhkfyjrfdsynj2voztcf2\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3moxrhdhoz32d\",\"cid\":\"bafyreig7wbyjk4uldp4lxnv7jbrfjh6ockn4dyzh6s35smekg7fluyz4le\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreidqttyyt62o3hoxq2elmsmrimpegil5bwglqhwud65vzq7gj3cmtq\",\"rev\":\"3moxrhdhsw32d\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-68623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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