As you may or may not know, both Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative were released on Steam in their “all-ages” versions, but they were originally released in Japan as adult games. This is because Steam notoriously doesn’t allow adult content on its platform, requiring game developers to release censored versions of their titles, with some distributing patches
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Many consider the Muv-Luv series one of the best visual novel series of all time, and with good reason: the first game starts as an apparently innocuous romantic adventure set in your usual Japanese high school, and then pulls the rug from under your feet with a radical one-eighty, turning into a tragic and epic
The transfer of the western publishing rights of Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative from Degica Games back to Ixtl caused a few issues, culminating with the removal of both games from sale on Steam. The publisher made an announcement at the end of January, mentioning that the games would return this month with different AppIDs, but that left many who