Plantation Simulator Dev Quietly Pulls Game from Steam

Plantation Simulator, the polarizing title that fans have branded a “slavery simulator,” has been permanently pulled from Steam’s digital storefront. Despite the controversy that exposed the platform’s lax content filters, the removal was not a Valve‑initiated action but a formal request from the developer, known online as FzzyBzzy.

In a final announcement posted on May 24 on the game’s official page, the creator declared the voluntary withdrawal of the project, stating that they had successfully conveyed their intended message and had seized the opportunities presented. Following the developer’s request, SteamDB confirmed that Valve disabled sales of the simulator from May 26 onward, though the product’s description remains visible in the broader catalog.

We’ve said what needed to be said. We saw the opportunities and took them :3

We are in communication with Steam to remove this game from their store page! We are unsure when they will be able to address our request, but we hope it is soon!

During the brief period that Plantation Simulator was available on Steam earlier this month, the basic premise of this simulator placed the player as the owner of a plantation in the United States, using whips and physical violence to force African-American characters to cultivate various crops. The controversial gameplay even included an initial explicit warning stating that excessive use of the whip would result in the death of slaves, a feature that apparently did not trigger any alarms in Steam’s quality control filters. Before requesting its permanent removal from the digital market, creator FzzyBzzy had launched a final update on May 21 to change the skin color of slaves to white, an unusual technical decision that ended up angering a new sector of the community. Although the questionable title is no longer for sale, the press has attempted to contact Steam administrators without success, leaving questions about the reasons that allowed the original publication of a game with these characteristics without any preventive intervention.