Steam and Epic both banned HORSES, and it bodes ill for creativity

One of the more bizarre stories in gaming news right now is that of HORSES, a new indie horror game from developer Santa Ragione about working at an unsettling horse farm with some dark secrets over the summer (you may know of the studio from 2023’s well-received visual novel Mediterranea Inferno, among other titles).

In the days leading up to its release on Tuesday this week, HORSES began making headlines when the news that Steam — Valve’s PC gaming platform, and the biggest PC gaming storefront in…