Steam Purges Developer’s Games After Manipulated Review Scores

Insel Games has had its games purged from Steam after the developer was discovered manipulating review scores with fake accounts.

A Reddit post claiming that the company’s CEO was threatening to fire employees if they didn’t buy the game and leave positive reviews on Steam caused Valve to investigate.

In an update today, Valve said that it had “identified unacceptable behavior involving multiple Steam accounts controlled by the publisher of this game.

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