What happened to my itch.io games?

Hello, this is Kiarou.

If you're wondering why most of the games I made in the past have been delisted from itch.io's search engine results as of yesterday, that's because itch.io bended their knees to pressures from payment processors by erasing several content without any warning to their creators and customers.

The reason why itch.io did this was because they have been pressured by the payment processors on behalf of a hate group to target content that the latter group doesn't like in an attempt to suppress freedom of expression, which goes against what their creators stood for.

As a result, while I'm currently looking for alternatives or opening a homepage to host my itch.io games on, I decided to release MapleStory After Story on the Internet Archive and will be doing the same for my other games in the near future in case if they take them down as well.

Rest assured, I'll still continue to draw art and develop games as usual, except that I will no longer be posting my future games and content on itch.io until they reverse their decision and put pressure on the payment processors.

UPDATE (as of August 11th, 2025):

As of July 31st, 2025, most of my games are now relisted, all thanks to your support, along with itch.io reversing their decision to delist adult games by relisting free adult games and announcing that they're looking for alternative payment processors that are comfortable with NSFW content, since they got rid of Stripe as a payment method for adult content.

While I thank those who continue to support and play my games throughout this situation, I will still continue to draw and pursue my dream job while providing updates for my existing games on other platforms as usual.

In the meantime, although we'll continue to keep an eye on the current situation with itch.io, please continue to take the payment processors and the hate group accountable for trying to suppress freedom of artistic expression.