disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise

Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.

Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.

The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.