So recently there was huge controversy online about an age 12+ visual novel stimulator game called 'No Mercy' where the premise is you play as a man who catches his mother cheating on your father, then SA her as punishment to make her submit. You also SA other female characters in the game and your aunt.

I believe a feminist group in Australia got wind of the existence of this game being on a mainstream gaming platform like Steam, and created a petition to take it down. From there the controversy blew up and leading to even politicians in the UK to talk about this game. The game was also banned in the UK, Australia and Canada, before the developers, a company called Zerat games decided to pull the game from Steam themselves due to growing backlash.

A lot people were appalled by the game, couldn't understand how this is even made it to steam. However, I came across some people online defending the game, they were mostly taken aback by outrage because according to them these games aren't even uncommon on Steam, in fact there are much worse games out there.

And those people were right, I came across websites that host thousands of games like these with similar premises, usually a male characters SA'ing other female characters in a game. It's predominantly made for men who have dominance fetish in mind. A lot the guys into this content will defend it by saying it's just fiction and doesn't cause harm in real life.

My question today is if you agree with this notion? Should the exploration of rape fantasies be tolerated in video games? There is still controversy over depiction of rape in books, particularly romance novels but now video games are another avenue for debate.

Edit: I also wanted to add there other games like Rapelay a video game from Japan where you play as a killer who rapes and kills a mother and her two teenage daughters, that caused world wide outrage in the 2000s. There was also another video game called Rape Day, where you play as a serial killer who hunts and rapes women during a apocalypse that was subject to controversy in 2019. This is to show rape in video games has remained a strongly contested debate for a while.