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They just removed Mouthwashing from this site. They going from an inch to a mile

A topic by Titsagundam created Jul 28, 2025 Views: 8,503 Replies: 10
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This is the main reason I was too scared to update my game. They banned a game that actually had a moral focus that discussed, not glorify, a topic that does happen from time to time. 

Mouthwashing to me was game about what happens when you don't hold shitty people that continue to get very sus reports accountable. It taught us what happens when you don't investigate a situation when the evidence does in fact prove that Mr. Dumbass is a toxic dumbass. it was the game that taught us it's okay to point out the bullshit.

and this whole collective shout and payment processor situation is in fact bullshit. 

They said it was only glorification of adult content that would seem criminal. Yet they went after a game that did not glorify but did in fact discuss the aftermath and consequences.

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This is something I said could happen from day zero, before everything got banned. Games like The Binding of Isaac, OMORI, Mullet Madjack, Danganropa, Needy Streamer Overload, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, and many more, are games that fit the category of games they want gone. These games are not illegal, but they cover some extreme topics. So why risk it, right?

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Right! It made me realize that although people will brush evidence under the rug, it's better to fight back even when you're alone! Like even the men in the game became hopeless in their own turmoil while things were spiraling. All the squad had to do is face the truth! Games from your list, like Mouthwashing, warns us that hey, these things can in fact happen to the point where curious minds might look up relatable events and then learn "Oh hell!! I need to be careful in life!!"

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It's seriously been removed? I don't have a link to it on hand but this specifically was a topic that had been discussed days ago. Every detractor was basically saying "no that won't happen, this isn't about games like that" and yet here we are!
Mouthwashing is not a game that in any way shape or form should have been restricted, blocked, or deleted. They had no right.
I am very keen to know when or if it will equally be removed from steam as I believe they're under the same pressure, or whether this is purely itch's decision and processors didn't even force this.

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Apparently the devs confirmed Mouthwashing got hit by an older guideline and was delisted last October on Bluesky from an article I read.

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To follow this up a little more: it appears the core source of all this panic about Mouthwashing specifically is because the composer of the game. He seems to have not been informed Mouthwashing got delisted back in October. Something itch did because because Wrong Organ was using their itch page purely to funnel people to Steam to buy the game, not buy it on itch.

So when the composer idly looked up Mouthwashing this morning he found it delisted and made a (to him) logical presumption. 

Writers, looking to be the first to scoop this story and get all the SEO goodies, ran stories without talking to anyone else at the developer or itch and now it's gonna take days to claw back all the misinfo that's been spread about it. 

Now why in the bloody hell would he do that at a time like this!! I get you don't like the way the rules work in general but to piggy back off the current outrage is going to ruin the image of us trying to fight the censorship!! Here's the info to those who come across this. Thanks Gavin!:
mouthwashing itch - Search / X

I will stand my ground on the whole concept from an inch to a mile, but I don't like the fact that the mouthwashing team member decided to use the current uproar like that.

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To be explicitly clear: I do not think he acted with any malice or attempt to get press. I think it's a situation where other people at Wrong Organ tried a little marketing tactic that broke TOS, got their wrist slapped, and decided it wasn't worth informing their music guy of something kind of embarrassing. Especially given it happened when Mouthwashing was very much a critical darling and making plenty of sales on Steam.

Would you messaged every individual person you worked with on an indie game (that's doing great sales-wise) to inform them you broke the TOS and got the game de-listed on itch, or would you just let it slide? It's completely unrelated to what they did on the game, and it's one less person who has to know you got in the tiniest bit of trouble.

This looks to be more of a situation where journalists, who are used to small game devs where one person has TONS of roles in the company, did not slow down long enough to message other people at Wrong Organ to confirm the music guy has all the relevant details and not just... an employee who has literally not looked at Wrong Organ's itch account until yesterday. They also didn't take five seconds to plug Mouthwashing's itch link into the Wayback machine and see it's been delisted all of 2025, which immediately pokes holes in the original guy's announcement.

We're at a point where reporters HAVE to be the first to report on something if they wanna justify their income, but that comes with the downside of not having time to wait for replies to emails or doing basic due diligence legwork. 

To GameSpot's credit, they immediately edited their version of the story with an update and new headline as soon as they found out.

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Hard to care about the real reasons Itch is doing something while they’re actively silencing all adult creators. Perhaps if they had been more methodical, they wouldn’t have gotten caught in that beartrap of a misconception. They can cry me a river. I’ll never post another game to this joke of a site, and I’ll keep voicing my anger toward them until they ban me.

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Doesn't matter that it was or wasn't removed due to Mastercard/Visa. Just some things being removed is enough censorship for me to say "fuck itchio". Funny, I just registered to do a game jam and start posting games, but eh, not anymore. :) trash platform that just lost peoples trust. Itch.io can go die like steam. Back to being a pirate. 

yikes, now I’m afraid to ever make my game :(