"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban

You mightiness not instantly recognise the sanction Santa Ragione, but the autarkic Italian workplace has been creating bound pushing, award-winning games for implicit a decennary and a fractional now. It launched into abstraction for 2013's mesmerising ambient puzzler Mirror Moon EP, it took to the Italian countryside for 2016's politically minded Wheels of Aurelia, it fled each mode of horrors successful the past Sardinian municipality of 2022's Saturnalia, explored post-Covid trauma successful the blistering Italian prima successful 2023's Mediterranea Inferno, and it's astir to task into adjacent stranger, darker territory with Horses, an unsettling first-person communicative fearfulness escapade acceptable connected a workplace whose livestock consists of bare masked humans. But the excitement of Horses' long-awaited accomplishment connected 2nd December has been tempered by much sobering news. After a bid of confounding decisions by Valve, Horses is efficaciously banned from Steam. And incapable to scope a important information of the PC market, it's highly improbable to recoup its improvement costs - meaning Horses precise good mightiness beryllium the studio's last game.

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